Education week 4 assignment

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EmergentWritingTool.docx

Developmental Domain: LLD — Language and Literacy Development

LLD 10: Emergent Writing

Child shows increasing ability to write using scribbles, marks, drawings, letters, characters, or words to represent meaning*

Mark the latest developmental level the child has mastered:

Responding

Earlier

There are no earlier levels for this measure

Responding

Later

There are no earlier levels for this measure

Exploring

Earlier

There are no earlier levels for this measure

Exploring

Middle

Makes marks on paper

Exploring

Later

Makes scribble marks

Building

Earlier

Makes scribble marks or simple drawings that represent people, things, or events

Building

Middle

Makes marks to represent own name or words

Building

Later

Uses letters or clearly recognizable

approximations of letters to write own name

Integrating

Earlier

Writes several words or a few simple phrases, or clearly recognizable approximations

Possible Examples

· Dips sponge in paint and dots onto paper.

· Makes a dot on a paper and then makes more dots using different markers.

· Holds crayon against paper.

Possible Examples

· Uses crayons, pencils, or markers to make back-and-forth marks.

· Paints using large or small movements.

· Scribbles by moving finger on screen of tablet or by using Braille writer.

Possible Examples

· Draws circles and lines and comments, “Baby,” and “Mommy.”

· Makes marks on paper and then explains that it is a birthday cake.

· Draws a series of lines to represent a house and a tree.

· Makes marks to represent the dog from a story by moving finger on screen of tablet or touch screen of computer.

Possible Examples

· Makes marks that are linear and spaced like letters or words while writing a pretend grocery list.

· Makes marks for a restaurant order in the dramatic play area.

· Uses an adaptive device to hold a marker to make marks on paper to represent the word “mom.”

Possible Examples

· Writes own name on drawings made in class.

· Signs a self-made card to grandma with a close approximation of own name.

· Uses a few letter stamps to represent own name.

Possible Examples

· Writes, “bog” [“ dog”], copying the word from a book, to label a drawing of a dog.

· Writes “STOP” on a stop sign in a drawing.

· Writes “I love you” on a drawing made for a family member.

· Uses a Braille writer to practice writing a few simple words.

* Children who are familiar with print in languages other than English may demonstrate differences in how they approach writing. For instance, some languages use letters (e.g., English, Spanish, Tagalog, Arabic, Hebrew), while others use characters (e.g., Chinese).

Child is not yet at the earliest developmental level on this measure Child is emerging to the next developmental level

Unable to rate this measure due to extended absence

LLD 10

Emergent Writing

LLD 10

DRDP (2015): An Early Childhood Developmental Continuum Preschool Comprehensive View – June 24, 2019 © 2013–2019 California Department of Education – All rights reserved Page 22 of 68

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