Wrting Skills At Different Stages

Question 1

Emergents stage 3-5yrs

Answer 1

Intro to literacy concepts

Distinguish between writing and drawing

Uses upper and lower case letters interchangeably

Know how to form letters and the direction of writing on a paper

No explicit instructions are given

Question 2

Partial alphabetic stage and letter alphabetic stage 5-7

Answer 2

Learns the alphabetic rule

Writes words with consonants in all positions and short vowels

Familiar with diphthongs

Produce letter reversals

Knows the conventions of upper and lower case letters

Question 3

Full alphabetic and within stage

9-11yrs

Answer 3

• learn to write long vowels silent e and diphthongs
  -learn to write r controlled vowels car
• learn more complex consonant patterns
  (Blends)

Question 4

Affixes writing stage and beyond

11 -14 and beyond

Answer 4

Learn rules of inflection and derivation
Rules of syllabification
Word etymologies

Question 5

Writing stages

Kellogg (2008)

Answer 5

• development of written composition skills advance through 3 stages
• takes 3 decades of maturation, instruction and advancement
• shows how the relationship between the author, text and reader develops

Knowledge telling
1st ten years 
Author dominated 
No interaction with the text
Limited planing, translating and reviewing 

Knowledge transforming
The relation between reader and the text
Working memory to maintain mediation between the text and the reader
Learn content, planing , organizing

Knowledge crafting
Interaction between the author text and reader develops
Can present what is said in their own way
Can write for their own purpose keeping in Mind the needs of a the reader.
Planing , translating and reviewing takes place