Barclay's stages of writing

Down

• 2. The child produces pseudo letters - these look like letters. (4, 7)
• 3. Most spelling is correct. (7, 8)
• 4. Random squiggles on the page - not related to letters in any way (10)
• 5. The squiggles are now in the form of shapes. (4, 11)
• 6. Writing is now often including complex sentences and spelling is often quite accurate. (11, 8)
• 7. The child produces proper letters and begins to learn grapheme-phoneme correspondence. Sometimes the first letter of a word is written to represent the entire word. (12, 7)