Young Children Sometimes Pretend to Write "Grocery Lists," Restaurant "Menus

Multiple Choice

Young children sometimes pretend to write "grocery lists," restaurant "menus," and doctors' "prescriptions" in their sociodramatic play. Parents and preschool teachers are apt to see three of the following characteristics in such pseudowriting. Which one are they least likely to see?

A) Small spaces between individual letters
B) Periods or commas at the ends of "sentences"
C) A few alphabet letters mixed in with other letterlike shapes
D) Left-to-right orientation of letters on the page