What do pre-schools tend to encourage in children’s writing
Unconventional forms - which are not mistakes
Emergent Literacy - Marie Clay: children’s writing beings to develop when
long before they can produce formal texts
Marie Clay says early writing helps children to grasp what
four ‘principles’ of development
What are Marie Clay’s four principles of development
Recurring principle
Directional principle
Generating principle
Inventory principle
Recurring principle explain and what to look for
Child knows limited number of letters so use them repeatedly
Repeated letters
Directional principle explain and what to look for
Reading and writing goes from left to right and uses a return sweep to start the process again
Left-to-right, Top-to-bottom
Generating principle explain and what to look for
child learns there are limited number of letter but they can be combined in different ways to convey a message
Patterns of combined letters
Inventory principle explain and what to look for
Child begins to write lists of letters and words that they know as a summary of learning
Lists
Goodman’s further Principles of Development
Functional principle
Linguistics principle
Relational principle
Functional principle
Children learns the notion that writing can serve a purpose and has a functions for the writer - difference between writing and doodling
Linguistic principle explain
Children learn the notion that letters have directionality e.g., b and d
Relational Principle explain
children start to connect what they write with spoken words and understanding that the alphabet
in emergent literacy what are the 10 basic skills for writing
- Motor skills
- Ability to form letters
- Letter directionality
- Cursive
- Graphemic combinations
- lineation
- Punctuation
- Ability to plan
- Form and convention
- Ability to monitor
Motor skills
being able to hold and control a pen
Ability to form a letter
Instead of doodling
Letter directionality
knowing that ‘d’ and ‘b’ are different
Cursive
joined up handwriting
Graphemic combinations
like ‘ch’ and ‘sh’
Lineation
ability to write in a straight line
Punctuation
writing needs full stops, commas etc
Ability to plan
writing isn’t spontaneous like speech
Form and convention
how to write letters vs stories
Ability to monitor
proof-reading and correcting
