Transcription of The Developmental Stages of Writing
1 The Developmental Stages of WritingAdapted from the work of Richard Gentry& the Conventions of Writing Developmental Scale," The Wright Group1 ScribblingScribbling looks like randomassortment of marks on achild's the marks arelarge, circular, and random,and resemble the marks do notresemble print, they aresignificant because theyoung writer uses them toshow SymbolsLetter-like forms emerge,sometimes randomly placed,and are interspersed children can tell abouttheir own drawings orwritings. In this stage,spacing is rarely of LettersIn the strings-of-lettersphase, children write somelegible letters that tell usthey know more are developingawareness of the sound-to-symbol relationship,although they are notmatching most usually write incapital letters and have notyet begun SoundsEmergeAt this stage, children beginto see the differencesbetween a letter and a word,but they may not use spacingbetween message makes senseand matches the picture,especially when they choosethe Developmental Stages of WritingAdapted from the work of Richard Gentry& the Conventions of Writing Developmental Scale," The Wright Group5 ConsonantsRepresent WordsChild begins to leave spacesbetween their words andmay often mix upper- andlowercase letters in they write sentencesthat tell , Middle, andFinal SoundsChildren in this phase mayspell correctly some sightwords, siblings' names.
2 Andenvironmental print, butother words are spelled theway they Writing is Phases This Writing is readable andapproaches Writing is interspersedwith words that are instandard form and havestandard letter SpellingChildren in this phase canspell most words correctlyand are developing anunderstanding of rootwords, compound words, andcontractions. Thisunderstanding helpsstudents spell similar words.
