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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