In this Grand Multi-Literacy 2024 session with our host Yoshito Darmon-Shimamori, we talk about various aspects of early writing development: handwriting automaticity, spelling skills, and some differences and similarities across languages. We touch on how to support multi-literate learners, including (1) strategically teaching each written language in the way that it works and (2) intentionally raising children's metalinguistic awareness through translanguaging and making cross-linguistic connections.