Everything in life progresses through stages and each stage is just as important as the next. Over the course of two class sessions, we learnt about writing as a stage. These stages include: 1. Emergent Stage 2. Early stage 3. Transitional stage 4. Fluent stage From my experience as a teacher,the transitional stage can be the most difficult. In this stage students will use a variety of strategies to spell more difficult words, writing in more genres, greater control over capitalization & punctuation, as well as developing their ideas & organization.Whew! That sounds like a lot, however once students are guided through the process, the stages can be manageable or even perfected after constant practice. The processes include; prewriting, drafting, revising, editing and publishing. There are also characteristics or traits in writing which are; ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions and presentation. Among the traits, the voice stood out the
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