Parent's Stuff Stages of Children's Writing Educators look at writing very differently than they did a generation ago. Children often will move the pencil like adults, making their scribbles from left to right. Many young children make up their own letters. Again, children believe they are writing. As children become more aware of the alphabet, they often write the letters in long strings, usually at random.
Invented spelling takes many forms but is related to the sounds the child hears in each work.
At the beginning of this stage, children may write one letter to represent one word. Later, words are represented by two letters, the initial and ending letter sounds. As the child's writing continues to mature, most sounds are represented in their invented spelling. The child begins writing more and more words spelled as adults spell.