Stages of Writing

Juel 1991 states that children go througn wriitng stages. These stages are:

 1. Immergent Writers Stage

 2. Beginning Writing Stage

 3. Fluent Writing Stage

 

Children posses different traits or skills at each stage. Easch stage is vital. The stages are as follows:

Emmergent Writers (Pre K - Grade 1)

BEHAVIOURS: drawing, scribbling, "non sense" marks, begins to write something that is more like letters. At pre schoool stage children will imitate what they see around thenm through writing, drawing or scribbling. By kindergarten students begin to form letters. Usually capital letters. Hence foreward phonetic spelling is attempted when spelling words. 

Beginning Writers (Grade 2-3)

BEHAVIOURS: Children at this stage approximately conventional spelling of words. The child can write sentences with most words spelt correctly. Also, they will write about stores taht they find personally meaningful. They also are able to use space between words when wrtiing sentences. Additonally, they can read what they have  written. Childrena t this stage attempts to use punctuation  and capitalizations in their writing. They also have variable handwritings and may sometimes reverse some letter sof teh alphabet such as b for d and 9 for b.

Fluent Writers (Grade 3+)

BEHAVIOURS: Writes expressively in many forms (story, expository, descriptive etc). Children at this stage uses a rich variety of sentences which are appropriate to the text forms. Furthermore, they have very good spelling competencies. These children also use the writing process when writing. Their words are usually spelt correctly. Additonally, their stories comprises of more than one paragraphs. Overall, their writing resembles adult writing. 

By Antha Daniel