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Children Learning To Write: A Progression Through Predictable Stages, Shirley D. Vestal
Children Learning To Write: A Progression Through Predictable Stages, Shirley D. Vestal
Masters Theses
A first-grade teacher documents her students' progression through predictable stages as they learn to write: distinct units of scribbling and/or ground line and profile in drawing, letters, words, sentences, story structure (character, setting, problem, solving the problem, and ending the story/telling how the characters felt), and conventions (capital letters, punctuation, and conventional spelling).
Criteria based on readability at each stage by a knowledgeable and sensitive reader are an important aspect of this study.
The class writes every day using a five-day story format:
Day One: Character Pink paper
Day Two: Setting Blue paper
Day Three: Problem Yellow paper
Day Four: …