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Writing

September 11, 2008 - Posted by Amy

I am completely fascinated by literacy development in young children. When I was teaching kindergarten, I wrote my seminar paper on “emergent writing,” which is the writing children do before they do “grown-up writing.” I chose three students in my class and diligently documented how their writing looked over a series of months and what they said about it.

Now that Lydia has her own notebook and crayons for writing, the teacher/researcher in me is back in full force. I feel like I need to get out my date stamp and hand-held recorder so I don’t miss a single detail in the way she is demonstrating what she learns.

Her notebook is full of page after page of happy faces. Each happy face has a circle for a head and a few dots and scribbles in the middle for eyes, nose, and mouth.

plain happy face

After a while of making plain happy faces, she has started adding hats, knees, and feet. Oh, how I love this girl.

fancy happy face

I remember from my days of reading scholarly articles on the topic of children’s literacy that there comes a point when very young people can distinguish between pictures and text. I am holding back the tears as I show you Lydia’s first attempts at writing words.

text

Usually when she is writing text, she is writing a name. Sometimes I will spell out “Lydia” or “Mommy” and she will methodically make marks on the paper as I say each letter. Sometimes she will say some of the letters in her name as she writes it. Her favorite letter to say is y.

So do you think I should be starting my doctoral thesis soon? It almost kills me to let this fleeting phase of cognitive development slip by. Doctor Amy. That sounds nice, right?

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4 Comments

  1. Mom says:

    Mommy Amy sounds pretty nice too. Enjoy your one student (soon to be two). Lydia is fortunate to have parents who know how to teach her so many things and take time to do it. I’m amazed at what she can do. Go, Lydia!

    ... on September 11th, 2008
  2. Janet Saxon says:

    I do so enjoy watching Lydia grow. I have a bible that is full of Caryn’s “writing” because she would watch me make notes in my bible and 1 day she decided to do a “study” on her own! Those pages are so precious to me.

    ... on September 12th, 2008
  3. Lindsay McKinstry says:

    This all sounds so very familiar as I am reading through my Words Their Way text a second time in preparation for my next class assignment. If only Lydia lived closer I could use her progress for my classwork as well.

    ... on September 14th, 2008
  4. madalyn says:

    Looks like Lydia is progressing well! You’re such a great mom and teacher, Amy!

    By the way, I’ve nominated you for a blog award. Go check out my blog and see!

    ... on September 17th, 2008