CHARACTERISTIC OF AN EMERGENT WRITER

Reported by; Gario, Jenny

CHARACTERISTIC OF AN EMERGENT WRITER

Children have acquired considerable information about writing before they enter formal instruction. they have learned how to write naturally because ( gundlack, et.at 1985) familiar writing situation and real life writing experience are evident in the home environment as modeled by the parents and even by the other family members. There emergent writing is characterized by playful markings to communicate something which signals their knowledge of the uses of written language before learning the form .

“ Writing is always related to reading , thus reading is always connected to writing .” the child experimentation with writing allows him to construct and refine the kind of knowledge that makes reading possible.

this illustrates that a child is an active constructor of his/her writing and reading and he/she uses his/her previous knowledge to learn and discover new information.

STAGES OF WRITING DEVELOPMENT

Based on the result of a longer study about children’s early attempts to wring sulzby (1985) along with barnhart and heisima identified six broad categories of writing : 1)Writing via drawing 2)Writing via scribbling 3)Writing via making letter like forms 4)Writing via reproducing well –learned units 5)Writing via invented spelling and 6)Writing via conventional spelling.

Drawing

Scribbling

Making letter- like

forms

Reproducing learned

units

Invented spelling

Conventional spelling

STAGE OF WRITING DEVELOPMENT

DRAWING

SCRIBBLING

MAKING LETTER LIKE FORMS

REPRODUCING LEARNED UNITS

INVENTED SPELLING

CONVENTIONAL SPELLING

Sulzby’s general description of early writing significantly helps parents and teachers to consciously observe and guide children’s writing.

However, it is important to note what Sulzby emphasized about these categories, that is, they are not necessary needs developmental or sequential invariant.

Physical Language Cognitive Affective Home environment

•Drawing•Scribbling from left to right•Making letter-like forms•Making shapes that resemble letters•Producing letters in long or short strings

•Practicing of aspects of writing•Construct-ing his own writing•Integrating knowledge of shapes and lines to produce a number

•Enjoys writing for himself•Impress parents through his writing like activities•Emulates adults •Finds pleasure in receiving greeting cards from adults

•Has considerable exposure to writing events of adults•Involvement in adult-writing•Social functions of writing are evident in the home

•Writing sounds•Letter sequences•Writing his own name•Invented spelling•Copying letter and numbers•Copying logos and sign

READING AND WRITING INDEPENDENCE

Cooper and kigger (2001)identified the five stages of early literacy learning which involve oral language ,reading and writing skills of children. this stages involve the following:

Early emergent literacy stage Emergent literacy stage Beginning reading and writing stage Almost fluent reading and writing stage Fluent reading and writing stage

Cooper and kiger (2001) provided the behavior and performance indicators of emergent learner in oral language reading and writing form the early stages as they depend on so much on literate adults who provide support and as they progress to achieve total independence in their learning .

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