Writing
A child's writing development parallels their development as a reader. Print awareness develops in young children as a result of being read to by adults and having other literacy experiences.
Watch Lynn Reichle and her second grade students go on a writing adventure called Writers' Workshop.
Part of print awareness is the realization that writing is created with instruments such as pens, pencils, crayons and markers. Children began to imitate the writing that they see in the environment.
At first glance, the efforts of a young child may look like meaningless scribble, but a closer look at these early attempts at writing will reveal something more. Children who have not yet entered school engage in scribbling as an attempt to create writing that has meaning.
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See also
- Topics A-Z: Writing
- PBS Shows: Launching Young Readers: Writing & Spelling
- 6+1 Trait Writing Model for assessing and teaching writing, NWREL
- Podcasts & Videos: In the Classroom
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