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The document outlines strategies for developing early writing skills in children. It discusses using play dough, iPad games, and whiteboards to link sounds to letters and practice letter formation. The strategies support fine motor skills, creativity, and assessing the child's prior knowledge. Suggestions are made to say letter names aloud, have children read their writing, write stories based on drawings, write letters together, and look for examples of writing in everyday life.

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Task 4

The document outlines strategies for developing early writing skills in children. It discusses using play dough, iPad games, and whiteboards to link sounds to letters and practice letter formation. The strategies support fine motor skills, creativity, and assessing the child's prior knowledge. Suggestions are made to say letter names aloud, have children read their writing, write stories based on drawings, write letters together, and look for examples of writing in everyday life.

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Observation Task 4: Development of Early Writing Skills

Table 4: Development of Early Writing Skills


Developmental Writing Stage Supporting Links to the ADEC Comments
Activities Curriculum
Link sound with hands on
and develop fine motor Include more
Using play
skills. creativity in
dough to
this activity
formate the
letters

Link sound with iPad


games in helping to write Include more
Using iPad to
the right format. useful games
write the
that assess the
letters
child and help
to explore his
prior
knowledge.

Link sounds to letters,


naming and sounding the The teacher
Using small
letters of the alphabet. should draw a
whiteboards
line in the
and
Use a pencil (whiteboard white board
whiteboard
marker) and hold it so the child
markers to
effectively to form can follow
practice letter
recognizable letters, most and know the
formation
of which are correctly direction
formed.
Suggestions for the further development of early writing skills
 Say the letters in their name aloud as you point to them.
 Get them to ‘read’ their early writing to you.
 Write the story they tell you under their drawing.
 Write a letter together to someone you love.
 Let them see you writing – talk about what you are writing about (a grocery list or writing a
check).
 Look together for writing everywhere – street names, shop names, writing on cars and trucks.

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