Children begin developing writing skills from a young age through everyday experiences at home where they observe family members writing. Their early writing is playful scribbles and marks that allow them to communicate something before fully understanding conventional writing forms. As children experiment with writing, they construct knowledge that helps them learn to read as well. There are six recognized stages of early writing development: drawing, scribbling, making letter-like forms, reproducing learned units, invented spelling, and conventional spelling. These stages usually progress from left to right as the child's physical, language, cognitive, and affective skills develop, though not always sequentially.

1. CHARACTERISTIC OF AN EMERGENT
WRITER
Reported by; Gario, Jenny

2. CHARACTERISTIC OF AN EMERGENT
WRITER
Children have acquired considerable information
about writing before they enter formal
instruction. they have learned how to write
naturally because ( gundlack, et.at 1985) familiar
writing situation and real life writing experience
are evident in the home environment as modeled
by the parents and even by the other family
members. There emergent writing is
characterized by playful markings to
communicate something which signals their
knowledge of the uses of written language before
learning the form .

3.  “ Writing is always related to reading , thus
reading is always connected to writing .” the
child experimentation with writing allows
him to construct and refine the kind of
knowledge that makes reading possible.
 this illustrates that a child is an active
constructor of his/her writing and reading
and he/she uses his/her previous knowledge
to learn and discover new information.

4. STAGES OF WRITING DEVELOPMENT
 Based on the result of a longer study about
children’s early attempts to wring sulzby
(1985) along with barnhart and heisima
identified six broad categories of writing :
1)Writing via drawing 2)Writing via scribbling
3)Writing via making letter like forms
4)Writing via reproducing well –learned units
5)Writing via invented spelling and 6)Writing
via conventional spelling.

5. Drawing
Scribbling
Making
letter- like
forms
Reproducin
g learned
units
Invented
spelling
Conventional
spelling
STAGE OF WRITING
DEVELOPMENT

6. DRAWING

7. SCRIBBLING

8. MAKING LETTER LIKE FORMS

9. REPRODUCING LEARNED UNITS

10. INVENTED SPELLING

11. CONVENTIONAL SPELLING

12. Sulzby’s general description of early writing
significantly helps parents and teachers to
consciously observe and guide children’s
writing.
However, it is important to note what Sulzby
emphasized about these categories, that is,
they are not necessary needs developmental
or sequential invariant.

13. Physical Language Cognitive Affective Home
environment
•Drawing
•Scribbling
from left to
right
•Making
letter-like
forms
•Making
shapes that
resemble
letters
•Producing
letters in
long or short
strings
•Practicing
of aspects
of writing
•Construct
-ing his
own
writing
•Integratin
g
knowledge
of shapes
and lines
to produce
a number
•Enjoys
writing for
himself
•Impress
parents
through his
writing like
activities
•Emulates
adults
•Finds
pleasure in
receiving
greeting
cards from
adults
•Has
considerab
le exposure
to writing
events of
adults
•Involveme
nt in adult-
writing
•Social
functions
of writing
are evident
in the
home
•Writing
sounds
•Letter
sequences
•Writing
his own
name
•Invented
spelling
•Copying
letter and
numbers
•Copying
logos and
sign

14. READING AND WRITING INDEPENDENCE
 Cooper and kigger (2001)identified the five stages
of early literacy learning which involve oral
language ,reading and writing skills of children.
this stages involve the following:
 Early emergent literacy stage
 Emergent literacy stage
 Beginning reading and writing stage
 Almost fluent reading and writing stage
 Fluent reading and writing stage

15.  Cooper and kiger (2001) provided the
behavior and performance indicators of
emergent learner in oral language reading
and writing form the early stages as they
depend on so much on literate adults who
provide support and as they progress to
achieve total independence in their learning
.

16. that’s all
my report
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