Writing - Rosie

Rosie’s writing is neat and straight when she writes with no lines. The letters are all evenly spaced and each one is clearly distinguishable.


There were words that she could not spell such as butterfly. However she can copy letters quite neatly if you write them down for her.

Some common trends I found were she sometimes used capitals and lower case letters in the same word. (Refer to the scanned image, down the bottom “holiday”)

She writes Y’s on the same line as smaller letters such as a and b. I presume from this that they have just started learning how to drop the Y’s so that they appear lower than the text. The reason I presume they’ve just started is because out of four words with y’s, two were at the same level (Word – Holiday and daddy), but one was slightly lower down (Word – Butterfly)

Rosie seemed content to write words and show off her writing skills. She appeared to enjoy the writing and took her time not rushing anything.

According to the Young Children’s literacy Development table (Tompkins, 2010) I believe she would be in between the emergent and beginning stages.

She was able to write from left to right, and used capital letters. However she couldn’t always re-read everything she wrote and never used punctuation. She preferred to write single words rather than a whole sentence.