Literacy Notes

Drawing as a Support for Writing

Writers progress through stages or steps of writing. Pictorial writing is a legitimate type of writing and one we need to teach young writers. If students think of details and draw them, they will think of details and write them. (Scriibi – Samantha Nicolaides)

As we have mentioned in previous newsletters, our school is lucky enough to be involved in a Pilot Study for a new writing resource which supports our Literacy Program. ‘Scriibi’ has been developed by Sam Nicolaides who is passionate about teaching all children the skills they need to create text but also to better equip our teachers in this area.

This term our Prep classes have started working with this resource and are working their way through a series of writing experiences, beginning with drawing. The children are encouraged to draw with lots of setting details, accurate colour and lots of labelling. Labelling drawings provides a great scaffold to writing sentences.

Students also learn that it is important to add setting details to their pictures to help readers understand where events are happening. This will help them understand the importance of adding setting details to their writing.

Here are some pictures of the Prep writers in action!

Yours in Literacy

Jo Taylor & Tania Purton 

Literacy Coordinators