This is Genesis, my five year old daughter who has just started kindergarten and is learning to write. I thought it as relevant to share this with the class because of our conversation on September 9th in regard to the format in which children learn to write.Professor Gleason explained that children generally do not space their words and will write all of the letters in a sentence close together. Coincidentally, when I checked Genesis' homework later in the week, I noticed that she is writing in the same way that we discussed.
Below are some samples of Genesis' writing:
They both have her name written on the top. On the first page she wrote "We pray for all the families of 9-11" and on the second one she wrote a few sentences. They read, "I see a cat", "I see a bat", and "I see a mat". Notice how the writing in all of the sentences, especially the last one on page two, are written close together. This supports what we learned in class in regard to the way children write initially.
