Emergent Writing
In early emergent stages of writing, students begin to draw and scribble before writing. The drawing and scribbles may resemble pictures, letters or words as the student’s understanding of text develops. The early emergent stage of writing is a time when young children duplicate forms and functions of print. The early emergent stage is the beginning of the students’ connections between oral language and written language. The students also understand a relationship that written text has a meaning and conveys a message. It is important for teachers to support and encourage student’s early stages of writing through different forms of writing, drawing and play.
In the middle emergent stage, students understand writing has a specific form. For example, the writing has a linear movement across the page, begins at the left and flows to the right but this flow is not consistent. The student also begins to understand the writing begins at the top of the page and ends at the bottom. Student’s writing in this stage letter and numbers will still be confused. The writing may look like a “symbol salad”, which means letter and numbers in a sentence. However, what is absent in this stage of writing is phonemic awareness, sound-symbol correspondence these feature begin to emerge in the late emergent stage of writing.
In the late emergent stage, the student use letters in a systematic way, their writing is consistently in a directional linear movement, from left to right, across the page, and some letter- sound matches the words that are written on the page.
Reference: Bear, D. R., Johnston, F., Invernizzi, M., & Templeton, S. (2012). Words their way: word study for phonics, vocabulary and spelling instruction. (5th ed.). Boston: Pearson.
In the middle emergent stage, students understand writing has a specific form. For example, the writing has a linear movement across the page, begins at the left and flows to the right but this flow is not consistent. The student also begins to understand the writing begins at the top of the page and ends at the bottom. Student’s writing in this stage letter and numbers will still be confused. The writing may look like a “symbol salad”, which means letter and numbers in a sentence. However, what is absent in this stage of writing is phonemic awareness, sound-symbol correspondence these feature begin to emerge in the late emergent stage of writing.
In the late emergent stage, the student use letters in a systematic way, their writing is consistently in a directional linear movement, from left to right, across the page, and some letter- sound matches the words that are written on the page.
Reference: Bear, D. R., Johnston, F., Invernizzi, M., & Templeton, S. (2012). Words their way: word study for phonics, vocabulary and spelling instruction. (5th ed.). Boston: Pearson.