This is the week that 5-year-old Wallie became a writer.
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[Click on the photo to see it larger with notes "translating" her writing.]
Wallie's Daisy troop is keeping track of good deeds, and this afternoon she sat down to write them on her special Daisy name tag. I gave her no help except to say, "Do your best guess spelling," every time she asked me how to spell a word.
This is the same approach I took as an elementary teacher, the same approach I took with Bunny. It never ceases to amaze me how close they get to a word if they just try to spell it themselves. And if I can read it, hey, we're communicating, kid.
Emergent writing is a beautiful, beautiful thing.
