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**   Learning to Write   ** ======

When children begin writing they can tell more complex stories than they can write. This is because learning to write involves learning to use a pencil, to hold it properly and create letters, words and sentences to convey meaning to others. (Hill, 2006, p.279)  ‘Researchers have described developmental stages of writing and are generally agreed that these stages are not well defined or sequential’ (Hill, 2006, p. 283)  ** Early Emergent Writing ** **Emergent Writing** **Early Writing** ** Transitional Writing  **
 * Beginning Writing **
 * The child might use drawing to convey meaning.
 * Writing can occur in large circle shapes or scribbled lines from left to right.
 * The child is exploring the writing they have observed.
 * Numbers and some letter shapes may appear as individual symbols.
 * Children explore the use of symbols letters or drawings to represent words.
 * The separation of pictures and letter symbols.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Begins to understand the concept of a written word as a separate entity.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The child begins to create more letter-like shapes.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">May be spaces between letters.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Letters begin to represent sounds like ‘WET’ for //went.//
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">May use sequences of letters for example their name.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Writing may appear in lines.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Continue to create or invent spellings of words.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Children often repeat phrases or sentences.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Difference between capital and lower case letters is apparent as is spacing between words.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Children know there are different genres of writing.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Volume of writing increases
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">May be many repeated sentences and phrases- quantity not quality.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Plots in narrative may simply be episodic and finding an ending is challenging.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Punctuation is well developed.

<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Extending Writing <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol">
 * There is punctuation and the writing resembles that of an adult. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol">
 * Accurate spelling.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol">  Use different texts types for different audiences.

<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">(Hill, 2006, pp.283-286) <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">