Kroll's written stages

Question 1

stage 1 : Prepatory

Answer 1

• basic physical skills required to write and learn

Question 2

stage 2 : consolidation

Answer 2

• phonetic spelling
• simple sentencing
• basic conjunctions
• short declaratives
• incomplete

Question 3

stage 3 : differentiation

Answer 3

• compound and complex sentencing
• less reliance on phonetic spelling

Question 4

stage 4 : integration

Answer 4

• complex spelling
• perfect spelling
• tone
• genre and function