Stage of Writing

Development

Example

Preliterate: Drawing
Children use drawing to
represent things, not
words, and it used to
exhibit for writing "use
drawing to stand for
writing" (Anne, 2011).(the
boy used drawing rather
than writing to represent a
boy plays football). Adults
can read the drawing
because it is recognizable
(the drawing is
understandable, it has
details such as hands, feet,
and face). Also, from
drawing the happy face, I
understand that he wants
to convey this message "I
love football."

This sample has been

collected from Canadian
Nursery in Ajman

Preliterate:
Scribbling
Children begin to hold and
use a pencil like an adult.
Also, their drawing will
continue and change to
contain scribbles of mock
handwriting and a variety
of marks "Scribbling looks
like a random assortment
of marks on a child's
paper" (Gentry, 2013).The
sample represents random
circular marks and
scribbles with spaces and it
resembles as writing.

This sample has been

collected from Canadian
Nursery in Ajman.

Early Emergent:
letter like- forms
Writing begins to include
shapes such as a circle,
square, and other figures
and it looks like letters.
Although the child is still
unable to write letters, the
shapes in their writing
resemble letters such as
the letter b and d"shapes
in writing resemble letters,
look poorly formed letters"
(Anne, 2011). Also, the
shapes appear in random
places without accurate
spaces.

This sample has been

collected from Canadian
Nursery in Ajman

Emergent: Randomletter or letter

strings
Children write real letters
which are usually the letter
from their names (the boy
wrote letters from his
name (sed) .Also, they
write the same letters in
many ways (the letter d is
written in two different
ways). Finally, Letters
appear in random order as
long strings without
accurate spaces and some
of them are
capitalized"write some
legible letters, write in
capital letters and have not
yet begun spacing."

This sample has been

collected from American
School of creative science

(Gentry, 2013)

Transitional: writing
via invented
spelling.
Children begin to cluster
letters together to create

and invent their own

spelling because they know
little about conventional
spelling"creates own
spelling when conventional
spelling is not known"
(Anne, 2011).Also, children
use one letter to represent
an entire syllable (the word
be, he wrote as b)and did
not use appropriate spaces
between the words( to eat)

This sample has been

collected from
American School of
creative science.

Fluency:
conventional
spelling
Childrens spelling gradually
become more conventional;
they have an excellent
spelling "Children spell most
This sample has been
collected from American
School of creative
science.

words correctly" (Rockets,

2010).Also, they use
punctuation mark correctly
and capital and lower case
letters in the appropriate
places.The sample shows
clear handwriting, the girl
end the sentence with a
period. So, it resembles as
adults writing.

References

Anne, H. (2011, July). Stages of Writing Development. Retrieved April 27,

2016, from Quizlet: https://quizlet.com/5974341/stages-of-writingdevelopment-flash-cards/

Gentry, R. (2013, July 24). Developmental Stages of Writing. Retrieved April

29, 2016, from Education.com:
http://www.education.com/reference/article/developmental-stages-writing/

Rockets, R. (2010). How Writing Develops. Retrieved April 22, 2016, from
Reading Rockets : http://www.readingrockets.org/article/how-writing-develops