Observation Task 4: Development of Early Writing Skills

Focus: Identify the early developmental writing stages and strategies within those stages

Objective: Identify the developmental stages and strategies used by your MST to support
the development of early writing skills in students

Procedure: Familiarize yourself with the Observation Table: Development of Early Writing
Skills. Identify the developmental writing stage the student is in, the ADEC outcome that the
activity addresses and a brief description of the activity. For example, K2LP1 – Identify
beginning sounds heard in words

Table 4: Development of Early Writing Skills

Developmental Links to the ADEC Curriculum (Identify the

Supporting Activities
Writing Stage ADEC Outcome)

Give the student different sentences

3 – Strings of
Letters
let them read and trace over them
then place them in the right place.

Tracing.

Link sounds to letters, naming and

sounding the letters of the alphabet.

Children write the names to the

different pictures.

note book writing

Learning letters in a different way

Link sounds to letters, naming and

sounding the letters of the alphabet.

Begin to form recognizable letters

(learn how to write the letter)

 Link sounds to letters, naming and
sounding the letters of the alphabet.

Copying full sentences

White board writing

Link sounds to letters, naming and

sounding the letters of the alphabet.

Write the letter in capital and small

case.

Learn the letter in group.

Suggestions for the further development of early writing skills

 Listening and writing but through focusing on sounds of the letters .

let them use different programs.

 Encouraging students to write correct sentences from different stories

and try to read them.

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Reflections on Observation Task 4: Development of Early Writing Skills

 1. What developmental writing stages are the majority of the students in?
2. Describe and explain two (2) suggested strategies that the teacher can use to help
the majority of the students within their developmental writing stage.

Student knowing the sounds and how to write the different letters and writes them in
order. Improving their skills by letting them write even more and make the practice. Letting
student learn writing helps them to improve their writing and give them more chance to
learn the write way of writing.