Children typically go through a predictable series of stages in learning to write. Falling after the scribbling and early emergent stages, in which children use letter like shapes to imitate writing, the emergent stage involves experimentation with random letters or letter like strings. Emergent writers typically use letter sequences perhaps learned from his or her name. They may write the same letters in many ways. We often see emergent writers writing long strings of letters in random order. These are all important steps in learning to write. The Haifa class was focusing on supporting the children at their own developmental stage. As children wrote out gift tags to their parents, some used letter like forms, others used actual letters named by a teacher, and still others knew the letters they needed and wrote the words on their own.
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