BARRY KROLLS (1981) 4 STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT

Question 1

Preparation

Answer 1

Basic motor skills are acquired alongside some principles of spelling

Question 2

Consolidation

Answer 2

Writing is similar to spoken language (including a more casual , colloquial register, unfinished sentences and strings of clauses joined by the conjunction ‘and’

Question 3

Differentiation

Answer 3

Awareness of writing as separate from speech emerges - understanding of writing for different audiences and purposes is evident and becomes more automatic

Question 4

Integration

Answer 4

This stage heralds the ‘personal voice’ in writing and is characterised by evidence of controlled writing - appropriate linguistic choices being made consistently