Using Writing to understand bilingual children’s literacy development by Renee Rubin and Veronica Galvan Carlan describe “ways that teachers can use information from writing samples in Spanish and English to informally asses students and plan meaningful instruction” (p.728). It states that educators find a lot of information about the student’s language development. There has been a lot of research done to see about the ways these children learn to write, speak, and read. This article is mainly about the different steps that students from different ages go through when writing. The students were but into different stages according to their writing and reading skills. These stages are precommunicative, semiphonetic, phonetic, transitional and
