Five Discovery Stages Affecting Student's Writing

The literacy area that will be discussed in this assessment is the student’s writing. When a child is learning how to write, they undergo five discovery stages, which are essential to their writing development. The first discovery stage, “I can make marks” the child realizes that they can control the form of the marks being made. The second discovery stage, “Writing vs. drawling”, the child realizes that the marks used for writing look different than those used in drawling. The third discovery stage, “noticing the features of print symbols”, the child becomes aware of the different shapes used to form letters such as loops, straight line and slanted lines. The fourth discovery stage, “there are a limited number of letter forms”, the child realizes that
There are some instances where an “N” looks like an “H.” Matthew used the correct punctuation and capitalization throughout the writing sample. The framework and the body structure of his paper are well done. However, when it comes to the content of the paper, Matthew is lacking some details. There was very good organization and order in the paper and I was able to follow what was happening and what was going to happen next. Matthew was able to use complete thoughts and ideas in his writing. I thought it was great that I could see the pattern of the fairytale of the Three Little Pigs. I was able to see how creative Matthew was and how he was able to spin off the original story and make it into his own. I could tell that he put a lot of thought into adding detail into his story. One thing that I would recommend is that he uses stronger words when using details. There was also evidence of transition words in his writing, which is great, but some of the spelling was wrong which made it hard to understand the transition (class notes