What is intergent writing or something like that

[kbaby]

DD's nursery teacher says she did it and I was too embarressed to ask what it was

[MehgaLegs]

I think she means emergent writing. When a child strats to write alone spelling words out phonetically.

e.g mumee for mummy
kat for cat
espeshalee for especially.

[Bink]

"emergent", it is

it means trying to, or pretending to, write - it shows a child is interested in learning to write, has got the idea, and real writing is not far off

[MrsBadger]

could it have been 'emergent' writing?

that's the little controlled pre-writing scribbles you see them doing about 3yo

[Bink]

and it can just be making marks that "look like" writing - not actually letters - the point is that the child has worked out that writing does something & is interested in what it does

[MehgaLegs]

Oh yes - just seen it's a nursery aged child. I'm thinking later when they start to write real letters.

[mrz]

emergent writing has a number of stages

Copying the writing they see adults do - squiggles and lines

a mixture of random letters and marks -

writing strings of letters - JJAMJSS

(sometimes repeating letters of the child's own name)

using the first and some last sounds of words- mmsbdy

beginning to space the letters- m ms bf d

some familiar words remembered from reading- my mms bf day

writing some words as they say it but spelling others correctly- my mums buf day

maths has a similar pattern of development

[blackrock]

Your child may include all sorts of bits and bobs in their emergent writing. Maybe even numbers and symbols they have seen e.g. shop sign symbols, patterns, etc.

[kbaby]

Thanks everyone