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| Pre-schoolers play-act being writers |
To some extent we have covered this in 'Scribbles and draws' above. But let us take it further, and have a closer look at that writing.
Keep examples of your child's 'writings' and look for differences in the marks. I have seen 2 year olds do lots of back and forth strokes, and then change to do big circles. It is important to be able to do both types of actions! Let your child scribble for a while and then ask him/her to write their name, or to write a letter, or a story. Recently I watched a two year old who had been scribbling aimlessly do lines of small zigzags, like the graphs of the stock market when we asked her to write a letter to mummy. She was so pleased with herself at our reaction that I am sure that she will want to write more 'letters'! I once saw a letter that a four year old had written. She had the address at the top right, the writing across the page in the middle of her paper, and the signature at the bottom.....and it was all done in lines of small scribbles. She
has seen letters and had recognised the positioning of the text before she could
even write! |