BARCLAY

• What are Barclay’s seven stages?

  scribbling

  Mock handwriting

  Mock letters

  Conventional letters

  Invented spelling

  Approximated or phonetic spelling

  Conventional spelling
• what is the scribbling stage?

  random marks on a page.

  to encourage, adults can offer blank paper and writing tools, talk to children about what they did
• what is the mock handwriting stage?

  often appears with drawings, lines of wavy scribbles. resembles cursive
• what is the mock letters stage?

  make letter like shapes that resemble conventional alphabet letters
• What is the conventional letters stage?

  first word to appear is usually their name, adults often see a string of letters across a page that a child reads as a sentence
• what is the invented spelling stage?

  begin to cluster letters to make words, may not appear conventional
• what is the approximated or phonetic spelling stage?

  children begin to associate sounds with the letters
• what is the conventional spelling stage?

  occurs as the child's approximated spellings become more and more conventional