Writing

One of the Performance Standards for "Cognitive" is "Uses Writing to convey meaning".  These benchmarks for 2 1/2 to 6-year-old children state that children begin their writing by using crayons, markers and pencils to make scribbles on paper and then write messages using scribbles.  Eventually, children write messages using "letter-like shapes and some conventional letters".  The expectation for children who are 5 1/2 to 6 years old are that they will be writing messages "using invented spelling and several conventional words."