KindergartenDevelopmentalStagesofWriting

PICTUREHOLDSTHEMEANING PRINTHOLDSTHEMEANING

It is still a
spooky night,
a spooky night.
This is the
pumpkin patch.








1 2 3 4 5 6
ScribbleWriting LinearScribbleWriting Drawing/Random EarlyPhonemic TransitionalWriting Conventional
Letters Writing Writing/Spelling
Exploresemptyspaces Drawssquiggles/ Useslettersbutmay Usesletterstostand Mixesphoneticand Formsallletters
Usespicturesto shapestorepresent lackletter/sound forsomesounds conventionalspellings correctly
representletters/words letters relationship Formssomeletters Writestoptobottom Spellsmostwords
Randommarksor Writesletterlike Formssomeletters correctly Formsmostletters correctly
scribblesoftenoccur forms Stringsletters/ Usesrebuswriting correctly Writesreadablewords
shapestoshow (lettersandpictures) Leavesappropriate andsentences
thought spacebetween Usessomeformof
letters/words punctuation
Writessomereadable
words
Writessome
sentences
Adaptedfrom:KindergartenAssessmentHandbook2002ScholasticProfessionalBooks.

DevelopmentalStagesofWriting: 1 ScribbleWriting 2 LinearScribbleWriting 3 Drawing/RandomLetters

4 EarlyPhonemicWriting 5 TransitionalWriting 6 ConventionalWriting/Spelling