Writing

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====<span style="display: block; font-size: 130%; text-align: center; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> "In early-emergent writing, children explore the use of symbols - either drawings or letters - to represent words." (Hill, 2006). When looking at a piece of writing created by a child in this stage of development you will see that there is a separation between pictures and letter symbols. ====



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