What are the development writing and spelling stages
that an early writer goes through?
These include:
ü Pre- Literate Stage of
Writing (3-5 years)
ü Emergent Stage of
Writing (5 – 7years)
ü Transitional/Developing
Stage of Writing (6- 8 years)
ü Fluent Stage of Writing
(8-10years)
The stage of spelling
linked to each writing stage includes:
ü Pre-communicative
Spelling Stage
ü Semi phonetic Spelling
Stage
ü Phonetic Spelling Stage
ü Transitional Spelling
Stage
As teachers, deriving from the walls of our classroom should be
the product of progressive writers. Writers, who we take from where they are at
to where we want them to be. Our classroom should produce writers who
understand that writing is important and the art of writing should be valued. In
addition, our classroom should be one where the writing experience for our
students is fun filled and exciting. Hence, our classrooms should be one
forging towards 'building a community of writers'.
In summary, to assist students in writing, the classroom environment
should be one where writing is encouraged. Therefore, the teacher must encourage
and do daily writing as well as modeling the expected writing to be obtained
from the students. The environment must be print rich with word wall and labels
of classroom materials that can be used to aid students in their writing. In addition,
if and when a student provides a piece of writing that contains spelling error,
that student should not be turned away with the markings of a red pen. However,
their attention should be drawn to a text where the correct spelling is written
for clarification allowing the student to make the necessary adjustment. Also, the
teacher can ask the student if the word can be spelt another way. Both of these
cases of occurrences can happen due to the language interference that generally
occurs within our classrooms affecting our students writing. Hence, it is
imperative as teachers that we don’t create an avenue where students are pushed
away from writing because of simple errors but we should encourage and foster
writing based on the developmental stage in which the child is at.
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