developmental stages of writing
Developmental Writing Stages. Different experts portray Developmental Writing Stages in different ways. Many stages are labeled different but have the same general concept. There seems to be a discrepancy between the Scribble stage and the Picture stage as to which actually comes first. The amount of stages is also debatable.
In the Within-Word writing stage, children learn a lot! There is a great deal of development that happens over these three years. Children: Learn how to represent various long vowel sounds (silent e, vowel diphthongs or âteamsâ) (by the end of 1st grade)
In the Letter-Alphabetic writing stage, children: 1  Learn the âalphabetic principle,â which is the concept that letters represent spoken sounds. 2  Write words with consonants in all positions and all short vowel sounds present (by the end of the stage)  Know diphthongs (e.g. sh, ch, th)