6)+Development+of+Writing

media type="youtube" key="F9ksEE4_YJ8&hl=en" height="355" width="425"(You Tube, 2007) Introducing Writing a Letter:

Learning to write plays a significant part in children’s early education. Children begin to learn that not only can their own experiences be told in spoken language but can also be represented in a language of written symbols. Hill (2006, p.279) conveys writing involves ‘learning to use a pencil, to hold at properly and create letters, words and sentences to convey meaning to others’ The following dot points provide examples of ways children determine how to use written language in early stages of schooling (Hill, 2006 p.281) For Example: Capitals and Lower case letters: Dd Kk Yy Ll. There are many stages in how children develop to write. When beginning school possibly children are able to write some letters such as their name, but cannot convey that certain letters build certain words. In the early writing stage ‘children continue to create or invent spelling of words’ (Hill, 2006 p.284). During Early writing they learn letters of the alphabet and understand the process of spacing and capital. However they are still developing the concept of spelling correct words. The transitional stage develops after where extent of writing increases but not essentially quality. The last stage extending writing is where children develop writing different types of styles of writing. These could include a narrative, an informative report or an argument to persuade a point of view (Hill, 2006). Punctuation by this stage is fully developed.
 * The Sign Principal: develops when children comprehend that letters and symbols stand for something.
 * The Flexibility Principal: after the sign principal children grasp that letters are allowable and some are not. It includes finding the differences between symbols and letters, and that letters can be written in different ways.
 * The Linear Principal: developing that written language is written in lines from left to right across the page. Hill (2006) explains that some children are absorbed in writing one letter that it takes over, and they end up writing this letter over the whole page.