Entry 6: Strategies and six traits of writing

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 The class was exposed to the stages of writing this week, which are similar to the phases of writing development but include preliterate activities like drawing and scribbling as well as early emergent, emergent, transitional, and fluency. The act of scribbling is comparable to a baby's babbling. Early emerging youngsters begin to write in letter-like forms where the shapes mimic actual letters. Children will start writing random letters or strings of letters when they are in the emergent period. The child's writing may resemble printed words at this point. The child's writing may resemble printed words at this point. Then comes the transitional stage, when kids start using created spelling, where one letter might stand in for an entire system. This stage also contains three substages: 1. The kid symbolizes words with the beginning sound; 2. The child utilizes the beginning and the finishing sounds; and 3. The child uses both the beginning and the ending sounds before adding the vowel sound. The child's ability to spell words is included in the fluency stage at this point.

This week also saw the introduction of the six writing qualities. This includes ideas that are the concepts or the actual data and content you would employ. The second characteristic is organization, which refers to the way the content is structured, including the introduction, main body, and summary. The third factor is voice, which refers to your communication style as an author. The fourth factor is language, which refers to the words you choose to appeal to your target audience. The fifth skill is fluency, which is when you use grammar and punctuation to let your thoughts flow. Conventions, which are the fundamental principles for spelling and grammar, are last but not least. 

 

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