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What does research tell us about young children learning to write? -…

- - - - When children are aware of some letters within their names, they will begin to use these letters in their writing (Harste, Woodward & Burke, 1984). In addition to their own names, children use signs, captions and labels in early writing (McLane & McNamee, 1990; Bissex, 1980)
- - - - when a child only knows a limited number of letters, they may use them repeatedly to create a message
    - - reading and writing from left to right and then using a return sweep to start the process again
    - - when a child starts to realise that there are only a limited number of letters to use, but that these can be mixed and matched in different ways. The child begins to recognise that there are patterns that can be used to convey a message
    - - a child begins to package knowledge together into lists of the letters and words that they know
  - - - the notion that writing can serve a purpose and has a function for the writer
    - - the notion that writing is a system that is organised into words and letters, and has directionality