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Facilitating drawing

and writing skills

• Drawing and writing

involve some of the

same psychomotor

skills.

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• Drawing and writing

depend on similar

cognitive abilities.

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• Drawing and writing

are both expressive

arts.

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• Drawing and writing

are both

developmental

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• Drawing and writing

are both purposeful

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General sequence for

drawing and writing

development

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Stage 1: Prealphabetic Writing and

nonrepresentational drawing

RANDOM SCRIBBLES

• No real letters are recognizable

• What the child draws does not look

like the object.

• Reflects emerging concepts of

communication through symbols

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CONTROLLED SCRIBBLING

• Appear random and disordered but

are composed of definite lines with

simple movements

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NAMING OF SCRIBBLING

• Begin to label or explain their

scribbles and see the relationship

between marks on paper and ideas,

objects and words.

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This is

a house.

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A girl in a boat

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Stage 2 : Alphabetic writing and

representational drawing

EARLY REPRESENTATIONAL DRAWING,

MOCK LETTERS AND LETTERS

• Usually drawing represents people or

objects of particular significance

• Produces mock letters –repeated designs and shapes that have some

features of print

• Begins to write letters or numbers

randomly or arrange them in a string

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Francis : 5 years- my name!

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The family had

just bought

Goldfish. Sally Ann

began to write with

help from parent.

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PRESCHEMATIC DRAWING AND

SEMICONVENTIONAL ALPHABETIC

WRITING

• Shows some planning of drawings

and writing

• Letters and numbers are clustered

like words and are of consistent size

• May show some invented spelling

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Names 3 dolls.

Katrina,

Sleepyeye

Debbie

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SCHEMATIC DRAWING AND

CONVENTIONAL WRITING

• Detailed precise drawings that reflect

careful observation and planning

• Writes letters of uniform size

• Knowledge of composition, spelling

and handwriting becomes more

conventional

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How should we

support children in

their drawing and

writing development

then?

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• Be aware of children’s purposes

• Provide opportunity for rehearsal

and revision

• Be sensitive in responding to

children’s efforts

• Plan a varied curriculum

• Make activities concrete and

functional

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Let’s think..READING

• Difficulty with letter sound association

• Word recognition challenges

• Reading fluency

• Comprehension

• Controlled vocabulary readers

• Drill based activities

WRITING

• Invented spelling

• Writing conventions, spacing, punctuation

• Penmanship

• Pencil grip

• Slow pace of writing

• Independent Writing

• Writing practice

• Writing homework