Writing Skills

Teacher Resources

Beginning

 Practices alphabet or letters

Reads back own writing

 Sometimes uses writing as support for pictures

 Places words and letters in random order   

  Copies words from a variety of sources

Relies heavily on the most obvious sounds of a word

Developing

  Attempts to represent most consonant sounds

  Writes and sounds out most letters

  Writes recognizable words with phonetic spelling/sight words

  Uses basic sentence structures and varies sentence beginnings

  Uses conventions

  Writes sentences that make sense/paragraphs

Fluent

  Uses writing process

  Writes a topic sentence and detail sentences

Uses wide variety or wide range of words

  Writing is organized