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Literacy Milestone |
What it means | |
| Experiments with writing using symbols and letters |
Older
preschoolers ( 4 to 5) should be trying to write using their limited
knowledge of how to form letters. You will still see the strokes
and the rectangular or circular shapes at first, but these will be replaced
with better attempts at letters and numbers as experience is gained.
Don't be concerned at upside down or reversed figures. This is
quite normal at this stage.
The letters that you are most likely to see being recalled and attempted will be the letters in the child's name. For example, at 4½, for her name Taneka writes T, some sharpish-circular shapes, and a backwards N, all placed in different positions on the page; while Megan at 4½ writes AMgT closely together, in a line, to look like a word. You can see that Megan has a better understanding of how to write her name than Taneka. She isn't necessarily 'brighter', she just has more experience at this.
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