Junior Kindergarten: Writing
- Experiment with writing using different writing implements and media
- Choose to write as play or in informal situations, for example filling in forms in a pretend post office, writing a menu or wish list for a party
- Differentiate between illustrations and written text
- Use their own experience as a stimulus when drawing and “writing”
- Show curiosity and ask questions about written language
- Participate in shared writing, observing the teacher’s writing and making suggestions
- Listen and respond to shared books (enlarged texts), observing conventions of print, according to the language(s) of instruction
- Begin to discriminate between letters/characters, numbers, and symbols
- Show an awareness of sound-symbol relationships and begin to recognize the way that some familiar sounds can be recorded
- Write their own name independently
