Writing takes on many different forms and the expectations at each grade level vary greatly. In a preschool classroom writing is an exploration with a marker, crayon or pencil. Children begin writing long before they come to school. These are all evidence of writing. Learning to write is similar to learning to talk.
Children learn from example.
If they see adults writing, they will write. Children write because they see us writing. They see it as something they can do and something worth doing. Children need to see us writing for different purposes. Writing a list before we go to the store, jotting down quotes when we read from a favorite book, recording our feelings in a journal, and copying a recipe from a magazine.