Keeping Children Learning

1. How does scribbling become writing for young children? Discuss the natural process a child goes through in teaching himself to write.

Scribbling helps develop writing skills. “The Scribble Hypothesis predicts that young children who are encouraged to scribble and draw, and to talk and to write, to compute and to compose about their scribbles and drawings will read more easily and will continue to read for pleasure and for information, will write more easily and will continue to write for pleasure as well as to disseminate information, will show an “innate” affinity for geometry, and, in general, will think more connectedly and unpredictably, or creatively”(Sheridan, 2001). Children begin scribbling without control. Therefore scribbling with be everywhere on the paper. For example, Billy just learned how to scribble. Billy scribbling is uncontrolled because he is not experienced at scribbling.

Children should be encouraged to scribble. Scribbling helps children learn how to control their scribbling. After a child has mastered scribbling it will then become writing. Children learn to scribble when they use different writing utensil in writing center. Children can use different things to learn how to scribble. Children can use paint to help with scribbling. Then, there is controlled scribbling. “Once children have developed hand control of a drawing implement, they begin to make all kinds of scribbles”(Beaty & Pratt, 2011). Scribbling is important for children because they gain writing skills.

The natural process for writing is writing learned without being force upon on children. Natural writing is done when a child want to write or scribble on their own. The natural writing process takes place when children scribbles in a lin...

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...eaty& Pratt, 2011). When I was a child my sister learn her alphabet’s from me. Children can use book and other materials to help with learning their alphabets. “Many experiences with environmental print, books, and other literacy materials give children the opportunity to become familiar with letters and sounds”(education.com).

Teachers should provide materials for children to learn their alphabet. For example, teachers could like children watch alphabets videos. It is possible for children to learn their alphabets from listening to others say them. “Children who enjoy technology might learn to recognize letters from computer games or by printing out the same letter in different fonts”(education.com). Since, there are different was for children to learn their alphabets. Children may like it better if they are able to choose how they would like to play the alphabet.