WRITING

• what is an ascender?

  letter where the line goes up
• What are the basic skills needed for writing?

  motor skills

  ability to form letters

  know directionality

  cursive

  recognise graphemic combinations

  lineation

  punctuation

  plan in advance

  Use form and conventions

  ability to monitor own writing
• What are the stages of writing?

  drawing and sign writing

  Letter like forms

  Copied letters

  Childs name and strings of letters

  words

  sentences

  Text
• What is the drawing and sign writing stage?

  children often experiment with a kind of sign writing which they regard as being different from drawing
• what is the letter like forms stage?

  individual signs produced have some letter like features
• what is the copied letters stage?

  the child is able to overwrite, underwrite or copy letters sufficiently accurately for them to be recognised
• What is the strings of letters stage?

  child independently writes strings of letters, usually including their own name
• what is the sentences stage?

  children learn to write confidently, begin to express ideas in writing that link several concepts. Need to use clauses or sentences, do this without using capital letters and full stops systematically
• what is the text stage?

  writing text involved combining clauses or sentences to express related ideas.
• what did Vygotsky say about developing writing?

  adults act as a MKO

  adults provide scaffolding to help children learn

  adults place children in the zone of proximal development
• what is the Zone of Proximal Development?

  ZPD

  the ‘sweet spot’ for learning, gives child a challenge but not too easy or too hard
• what must children do to write in the correct genre?

  choose right lexis and grammatical formations

  right register

  identify audience

  identify purposes