Annotated Bibliography

Annotated Bibliography on Writing Development

Church, Ellen Booth. “Ages & Stages of Art and Writing.” Scholastic, Early Childhood Today,

www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content/ages-stages-art-and-writing/.

This website explains the ages and stages of writing from one year olds to six year olds. One to two year olds experience the scribbling stage, three to four year olds go through the pre-symbolism stage, and five and six year olds undergo the symbolism stage. In order to understand writing development in children it is crucial to know the stages they go through. This information will be used for background knowledge in my project.

Cruikshank, M. (2001). The emergent writing process of a preschool child. International

Journal
of Early Childhood, 33(2), 10-17.
This article is a documentation of a four year old girl in preschool. The research was done to document the emergent writing process of the child. She was observed in her
classroom every day for six weeks. This study showed that she transition through the writing stages at an early age. This article will be important for me to use in my project to use a real life example of a preschool child going through the writing stages.

Gerde, H., Bingham, G., & Wasik, B. (2012). Writing in Early Childhood Classrooms: Guidance
for Best Practices. Early Childhood Education Journal, 40(6), 351-359.
doi:10.1007/s10643-012-0531-z
This article explains how important writing is in early childhood education classrooms.

The paper includes twelve research-based guidelines for supporting writing development in early childhood classrooms. The guidelines included are to build writing into your daily schedule, to accept all forms of writing, to explicitly model writing, to scaffold children’s writing, to encourage invented spelling, to make writing opportunities meaningful, to have writing materials in all centers, to display themed-related words in the writing center, to engage in group writing experience, to make writing a way to connect with families, and to use technology to support writing. This article will be useful to use for my project so that I can explain all of the ways to support writing in an early childhood

classroom.

Robertson, Kristina. “Improving Writing Skills: ELLs and the Joy of Writing.” Improving
Writing Skills: ELLs and the Joy of Writing | Colorín Colorado, WETA,
colorincolorado.org/article/improving-writing-skills-ells-and-joy-writing.
This website describes how to improve writing skills by using different writing activities. These activities include the language experience approach, sentence auction, error correction, quick write, and cinquain poems. This information will be useful to include in my project because it is valuable to know how to improve writing skills when focusing on writing development.

Seda, & Abramson.

(1990). English writing development of young, linguistically different

learners. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 5(3), 379-391.

This article describes linguistically different learners and their writing development. The

paper goes into detail of all of the stages. Level one is creating curved or straight lines, level two is creating graphic forms, level three is assigning sounds to characters, and level four is using more alphabetic writing. This information is important for my project because in order to talk about writing development, it is crucial to know all of the different stages it entails.

Sulzby, E., & Teale, W. (1985). Writing Development in Early Childhood. Educational

Horizons,64(1), 8-12.

This article discussed writing development in early childhood, but focused on letters and invented spelling, early patterns in writing development, reading, writing, and speaking, and implications for practice and policy. This information will be useful to my project so that I can explain writing development in early childhood in great

detail.

“The WIDA Standards Framework and Its Theoretical Foundations .” WIDA, The Board of
Regents of the University of Wisconsin System , www.wida.us/get.aspx?id=731.
The WIDA Standards include view of language and view of language development. I will use these standards in my project as a source when discussing language and language development.