Writing Developmental Continuum

Writing Developmental Continuum This assessment is meant to help teachers identify the phase of writing development. By observing the child a teacher can see just which phase they are in based on indicators stated in the guide. It is not uncommon for children to display characteristics of more than one phase. There are five phases which are “Role Play , Experimental, Early, Conventional and Proficient. Role Play is the beginning, where children essentially make marks on paper, trying their best to represent letters. Experimental writing phase is when children are aware that writing is a way of communication and know that writing from left to right is the proper way. Early writing is when children have developed a basic sense of sentence but have limited understanding, such as forgetting punctuation marks and capitalization. When students have arrived to the
They can compare what student understands from the different phases and what to teach so that the student can improve and understand writing as they transition to the next phase of the continuum. Brandon would be considered to be a student in the early writing phase as he understands punctuation and knows that writing is a way to communication and to remember things for later. However, he understands sentence structure but shows he doesn’t use varied structure to begin sentences, at least it the same prompts. My suggestion is that Brandon work with sentence frames to see just how different sentences can vary. This will also lead to him seeing that sentences are all part of a paragraph. The paragraph is the main idea of what an essay will be when he one day gets to that stage. Writers workshop will help him but it will and must teach him to proofread and edit his own writing. It is with this that Brandon can see his mistakes in writing and begin to correct those mistakes to most onto the next writing