WEEK SIX -STAGES IN WRITING DEVELOPMENT AND SIX TRAITS IN WRITING

 

When did I learn to write? May be five, not sure It’s hard to remember but one thing I do got from this lesson is that it happened over time. Am seeing a little Psychology in the stages of child development here when am learning  like their bodies, children’s knowledge and skills grow in spurts and stops, as well as sudden peaks and long plateaus.

THE EMERGENT STAGE

·        This stage is based on the spoken language and gives the youngest users the opportunity to tell stories by using the recording function.

·        Parents and teachers should ’translate’ children’s audio recordings into written language by adding text to the adult text field.

·        This gives children valuable insight into the purpose of writing, and shows similarities and differences between spoken and written language

 

THE EARLY  STAGE

·        An early writer should have a core set of high-frequency words, control over beginning letter sound combinations and analyze the placement of sounds in words.

·        Children begin writing problem-solving words they are unsure of writing; they use what they know about spelling by analogy.

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TRANSITIONAL STAGE

·        Compose while quickly spelling, and can produce longer, more complex pieces that may include dialogue, graphics, strong leads, and conclusions.

·        Transitional writers should have the following characteristics before moving to the next stage of writing.

FLUENT STAGE

·        Fluent writers understand text structures (compare and contrast, descriptive, problem/solution, time/order, compare/contrast, cause/effect, and procedural).

·        Fluent writers spell most words correctly and carefully edit their spelling while they write. They write on a wide variety of topics including nonfiction and personal experiences.

SIX TRAITS OF WRITING

So the scholar will give a long speech of writing traits ‘being the cognitive and metacognitive

Procedures writers use to control the production of writing’ but om a realty his topic really awoken me and as a science lover I am able to compare language to science at a least a little with the six traits of writing, let me break this down:

1.      Ideas can be compared go the brain and the brain controls the body, body controls the ideas and the ideas controls the writing1deas can be compared go the brain and the brain controls the body, body controls the ideas and the ideas controls the writing.with out ideas writing is impossible. The ideas you choose to include or exclude from your writing determine when and where your writing need to go. 

I deas are strength through facts examples and clear purpose. They are developed when explaination and justification of your  ideas and that of others.

 

 

 

2.    Organization this is like a skeleton -it gives shape to our bodies and holds everything in place  oranisation in writing does the same thing when writing you want to organize your ideas so they are just where m you want them just for they make the biggest impact give a good start by crafting an introduction paragraph that states your main idea and focus then then use purposeful and logical sequencing your ideas and choose smart transition words to link your ideas together.Use a phrase to connect paragraphs then of course your conclusion.

3. Sentence Fluency keeps us moving right along like the our feet  as it allows us to move the way we want to move we can step, lounge, skip, sprint and run that as wanna be good writer  it is important that  I used the sentence ,the same way should take into consideration, we should use writing of different lengths (short, long and in-between)some sentences can even be one word I also learnet that writers should also make sure that writer should make sure their writing does start the same or sound the same highlighting that we need to mix it up , our subject and verb must be agreed upon or it can cause confusion.

4. Word Choice is power like the muscles, practice makes perfect as the saying goes so as we continue to write if we want our writing to be more powerful we must use vivid, strategic words to give whatever being written to life it is not necessary  to use “big word” but it has to sound natural and relatable so the key is to use the right word. There are time we need to keep it simple and write exactly what we need and there are other time where we use figurative language to help to get our point across  and make a connection with the reader

5. Voice think of the heart with this one, literally the heart pumps oxygen and life to all parts of the body and the voice does the same in our writing, figuritivly if someone knows your heart they know tyour true self the voice in your writing should show trues elf. Yes I know its important that is being written should be approprite but the reader must heard your when feel your emotion when reading tour work and this can be done be done using the four(4)  C's: clarity, confidence, convincing and consistency

6. Conventions is writng protection and its like a rib cage to the body. Just like the rib cage protect the other organs in the body,convention constantlu correcting of spelling, capitalisation and puctuation