Many children come to school believing they already know how to write.
This article explains how the ability to write develops, and what you can expect from your child's writing. About Beginning Writers Research has shown that children experiment with different ways to form writing before they learn to write in school. They might scribble, draw, use letter-like forms, write single letters, string unrelated letters together, or use invented, or temporary, spellings. Finally, children learn to write and spell as adults do. When children use invented spellings, they listen to the sounds they hear in a word and then write the letters that they believe represent those sounds.