Writing is foundational to reading and literacy development. Tracking the progress of preschooler’s writing can be measured with age-appropriate observation, gathering of data, and progress monitoring throughout the preschool years. Participants will examine a number of resources to help understand the type of early writing skills that can be expected of their students, and those that are typical for, 3 and 4-year-olds. Ideas will be worked into larger lessons and units to support early and developmental writing skills throughout preschool.
Course Outcomes:
- Come to understand how writing works to connect to, and support, literacy in meaningful ways.
- Integrate early writing and drawing strategies with early reading principles.
- Analyze and track early writing development through ideas expressed in pictures and storytelling.
- Plan and execute lessons that use writing and drawing to communicate ideas.