EDF3034 (AT1 - Group Blueberries): Yip Ching Ching, Sonia (30489067), Li Yiqing (30555558) by Yiqing Li https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz Writing en-us 2019-08-03 12:39:07 UTC 2025-11-09 07:37:31 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f60d.png Introduction - Conventions of Writing twelvejellyfishes2018 https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/373659515 There are many stages of emergent writing for children in the early years, starting from drawing to scribbling, followed by creating letter-like forms. 
Then it leads to the steadier stage of developing phonemic awareness of words sounds, to do spelling and writing with the correct conventions of writing. ]]> 2019-08-08 01:47:28 UTC https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/373659515 Introduction - Creative Writing twelvejellyfishes2018 https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/373659606 For children who have reached a more independent stage of writing, stimulation to allow them to continue to practice and hone their writing capabilities is vital. 

Therefore, a few creative ideas to spur children’s motivation to write (e.g. creative writing prompts) will be shared in this Padlet column. ]]> 2019-08-08 01:48:18 UTC https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/373659606 Mark-making - sensorial materials elsyliyiqing https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/373951451 This resource offers mark-making activities and this relates to pre-writing skills concept, which is supported by Dennis and Votteler (2013) article. 

Emergent writing involves mark-making which writing takes place in a form of physical markings, drawings or scribbles to represent meaning (Dennis and Votteler, 2013). 

This resource offers beneficial mark-making activities that advocates hands-on and sensorial learning. Using sensorial materials, it will encourage children to explore different ways to express their feelings that represent meanings through creating physical markings.]]> 2019-08-10 05:56:48 UTC https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/373951451 Pictogram - ICT writing application *FAVOURITE* elsyliyiqing https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/373952069 This resource offers visual learning for writing and this relates to pre-writing skills concept, which is supported by Bristor and Drake (1994). 

Visual literacy requires the ability "to understand, interpret and evaluate visual messages, and in turn to use visual language to communicate with others” (Bristor and Drake, 1994). 

Using ICT as a visual learning teaching resource, this allows children to understand and make meaning from their interpretation. It is also visually captivating with characters and stories that will interest children to remember and learn.]]> 2019-08-10 06:18:04 UTC https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/373952069 Language code - Drawing elsyliyiqing https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/373952090 This resource offers drawing prompts for children and this relates to pre-writing skills concept which is supported by Nurturing Early Learners (NEL): Language and Literacy (2013).

"Children often combine different types of writing to represent their ideas and express themselves" (NEL, 2013). 

This resource offers prompts for children to draw and express themselves through their drawings and sharing. Children may also write down their thoughts such as labels, words or sentences while drawing which supports their skills to convey what they feel.]]> 2019-08-10 06:18:25 UTC https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/373952090 Mark-making - Outdoor play elsyliyiqing https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/373952470 This resource offers outdoor play mark making activities and this relates to pre-writing skills concept, which is supported by Jean Piaget's stages of cognitive development theory (1936). 

According to Piaget (1936), children know the world through their senses and motor movements and develop their language through symbolic play. 

This resource contributes outdoor ideas that enhance children's learning through play, which mark-making can be done outdoors to enrich children's pre-writing skills while having fun at the same time. ]]> 2019-08-10 06:31:21 UTC https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/373952470 Eye-hand Coordination elsyliyiqing https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/373954858 This resource offers eye-hand coordination activity and this relates to the mechanics of writing, which is supported by Noella Mackenzie (2014). 

Writing requires the interaction of cognitive and physical factors involving hand, eye and brain (Mackenzie, 2014). 

This activity enhances children's coordination through drawing and following of directions. It allows children to work in pairs and coordinate the interaction of cognitive and physical factors through the speed, direction and pattern of the drawing.]]> 2019-08-10 08:17:50 UTC https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/373954858 Multimodality elsyliyiqing https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/373955197 This resource offers digital storytelling through children's drawing and this relates to pre-writing skills concept, which is supported by Gunther Kress' Multimodality theory. 

This resource contains several categories in a multimodal text such as oral language and gestural design. 

Using the mode of drawing, children can collaborate to tell a story while having equal opportunities to contribute. Children as 'audiences' may also undergo meaning-making during the interaction with this multimedia.]]> 2019-08-10 08:32:44 UTC https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/373955197 Dexterity elsyliyiqing https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/373955524 This resource offers dexterity and this relates to the mechanics of writing concept, which is supported by Zaner-Bloser and Mary Benbow (1999). 

According to Zaner-Bloser and Benbow (1999), the wrist must stabilise the hand for mature dexterity and strength. 

This activity refines wrist and finger development, whereby the wrist and fingers have to be flexed and extended in order to insert the push pins and draw the lines accordingly. This activity also provides opportunities to enhance tripod grasp while holding a crayon, hand control and eye-hand coordination.]]> 2019-08-10 08:48:05 UTC https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/373955524 Penmanship elsyliyiqing https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/373955527 This resource offers penmanship activities and this relates to the mechanics of writing concept, which is supported by Marie Clay (2001).

Providing opportunities for children to read and write will allow them to pick up and use information from the resources to process and make links in language literacy (Clay, 2001).

This resource provides learning in a technological and conventional way, offering ICT and physical writing experiences for children. With the instructions given on the tablet or booklet, it simultaneously encourages children to read and write. ]]> 2019-08-10 08:48:13 UTC https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/373955527 Bilateral Coordination elsyliyiqing https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/373955533 This resource offers bilateral coordination activities and this relates to the mechanics of writing concept, which is supported by Berk (2013).

According to Berk (2013), when motor skills work as a system, separate abilities blend together, each cooperating with others to produce more effective ways of exploring and controlling the environment. 

This activity can essentially help to develop children's fine motor skills as it requires coordination between the fingers, palms, elbows, arms and grasp. Using play dough, it also helps in developing children's strength and dexterity as they manipulate with it. Additionally, writing on play dough can stimulate children's interest in writing.]]> 2019-08-10 08:48:34 UTC https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/373955533 Pincer grasp elsyliyiqing https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/373955553 This resource offers pincer grasp activities and this relates to the mechanics of writing concept, which is supported by Vygotsky theory (1978). 

This resource provides activities that enhances children's sense of touch that is required for writing as they feel the need for adjustment when holding a pen or a pencil.

These activities are sensorial which can develop children's senses and help to scaffold them in supporting their development in writing.]]> 2019-08-10 08:49:13 UTC https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/373955553 Writing Demonstration twelvejellyfishes2018 https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/373960372 This resource offers a teaching strategy to learn how to demonstrate writing for children in relation to the concept of building understanding of the basic conventions of writing. The importance of writing demonstration is supported by Fellowes and Oakley (2014) who stresses the need for a competent writer to model and demonstrate writing skills as children need to observe and experiment different processes of writing through their emergent writing development.

In this video, a teacher explicitly model writing by showing the process and to encourage the children to think aloud while writing. It can be easily implemented at home with simple writing resources such as paper and pen/pencils. ]]> 2019-08-10 12:18:55 UTC https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/373960372 ICT - Draw&Tell twelvejellyfishes2018 https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/373960580 This resource offers a way to work with children to create stories through drawing and writing and this relates to the concept of developing creative writing which is supported by the study by (Everson, J) which shared that children as writers can make meaning better when they work and interact collaboratively with  teachers and peers.


This resource is suitable for children of all ages, and besides drawing and writing, they can also record their voices to tell their stories and save it as a learning memory after. This works as a multimodal approach to build literacy skills for children in the early years. ]]> 2019-08-10 12:25:33 UTC https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/373960580 Acrostic Poems twelvejellyfishes2018 https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/373960594 This resource offers a way for parents and educators to generate acrostic poems for writing activities which supports the concept of building children's creativity in writing which is supported by a theory that shares about how acrostic poems teaches the basic concept of vocabulary learning and sentence writing.

Parents and educators can assess this website to download printable templates with 3 up to 10 letter slots to work with children to create meaningful and fun acrostic poems. ]]> 2019-08-10 12:26:07 UTC https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/373960594 Writer’s Notebook twelvejellyfishes2018 https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/373962170 This resource offers an activity that can be used as an organization tool to contain adult and child’s written works that are deem as helpful for future writing activities. 

 The contents of this “Writer’s Notebook” could contain mostly writings of the child such as key points of book review, high frequency words spotted and sighted in familiar environments, instructional materials such as simple lists or just short descriptive sentences. 

Other than being used a ‘word bank’, this Writer’s Notebook can be used a an informal record keeping assessment of a child’s writing development progression too. 

Reference: 
https://www.learner.org/workshops/middlewriting/images/pdf/HomeBestPrac.pdf]]> 2019-08-10 13:00:29 UTC https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/373962170 Left to Right when Writing twelvejellyfishes2018 https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/373963606 This is a fantastic resource for parents and educators to teach this specific focus area of learning how to write from left to right, in relation to the concept of building understanding about the conventions of writing. This is a catchy instructional song ‘Top to Bottom, Left to Right’ by Zaner-Bloser that is (sung to the tune of Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes) performed by children’s artist Debbie Clement. 

In a paper about the influence of music on the development of children, the writers explored the importance of music involvement to positively impact the development of memory, perception, language and other learning skills of children. It was shared that music can be a useful resource to enhance children’s cognitive development (Chau & Riforgiate, 2010).  ]]> 2019-08-10 13:35:47 UTC https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/373963606 Roll and Write Dice Activity twelvejellyfishes2018 https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/374010043 This resource offers a activity to let children write fun sentences which relates to the concept of building children’s creativity in writing which is supported by this study by Melissa Wood (2004), that children breed excitement and understanding in their literacy learning when provided with appropriate resources and tools. 

]]> 2019-08-11 14:14:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/374010043 Grammar Rule: Capitalization of People, Places and Things twelvejellyfishes2018 https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/374010725  This resource offers help to teach children the grammar rule to capitalize names of people, places and things and this relates to honing children’s understanding of the conventions of writing, which is supported by Luke and Freebody’s Four Resources Model (1999). In this theory, it discusses the role of a text user as being able to comprehend the different types of text types that are used for different purposes. Punctuation helps to make sentences readable and gives context and meaning to writing, and help readers thus be read and identify the different types of texts there are.

This is a printable poster that can be used at home and school as a learning resource. ]]> 2019-08-11 14:33:55 UTC https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/374010725 Finger Spacing twelvejellyfishes2018 https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/374011048 This resource offers a learning resource tool during writing activities and this relates to the concept of building understanding of basic conventions of writing, which is supported by this study by Julie Wells (2004), on the importance of the need for children to have room when learning how to write. Proper finger spacing between words trains children’s visual tracking skills, attention and improvement of dexterity when writing. Writing legibly increases text readability and builds the writer’s spatial layout of writing products.


Text-Spacing Idea#1
Use Finger Spacers Tool by Sensational Kids 
These writing tools provides tactile and visual cues on how much space to leave between letters and words when writing. 

Text-Spacing Idea #2 
Download free Writing Finger Spacers of different cliparts and pictures for children to use when they are doing independent writing tasks. 
]]> 2019-08-11 14:42:01 UTC https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/374011048 Punctuation Marks twelvejellyfishes2018 https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/374011067 This resource offers a book resource and post-reading activities that relates to the concept of understanding the basic conventions of writing, in specific, the usage of punctuation marks for writing. It is important for children to learn about punctuation and grammar rules as their writing are to be read and understood by others. (Hill, S. 2019)

Title of book: Semicolons, Cupcakes, and Cucumbers
Author: Steve Newberry

This is a children book that is designed to make learning punctuation easier for young minds.
There is a video link to for an audio-visual version of the book. https://youtu.be/LdCOswMeXFQ

There are printable resources available on this website for post-reading activities. https://scratchgarden.com/book/ 

]]> 2019-08-11 14:42:29 UTC https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/374011067 Fine motor exercises - Finger Aerobics elsyliyiqing https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/374068114 This resource offers finger aerobics that refines fine motor skills and this relates to the mechanics of writing concept, which is supported by Zaner-Bloser and Mary Benbow (1999).

This finger aerobics activity is beneficial in enhancing fine-motor skills in many ways. It helps in developing various parts of the hand such as fingers, wrist and arches that are essential in fine motor progressions which is needed for writing.

This activity can be accompanied with songs, rhymes or stories to make it more interesting for children to be engaged in.]]> 2019-08-12 05:45:55 UTC https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/374068114 Introduction - Pre-writing skills elsyliyiqing https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/374072829 Pre-writing skills are the fundamentals skills that children need to develop the ability to hold and move a pencil fluently before being able to write legibly.

To strengthen these skills, fun hands-on learning activities can be provided for children to enjoy and for them to develop interest in the art of writing. 

]]> 2019-08-12 06:48:26 UTC https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/374072829 Introduction - Mechanics of writing elsyliyiqing https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/374073246 Mechanics of writing are closely tied to pre-writing skills. Mechanics of writing focus mainly on the development of fine motors skills and coordination to support children in writing. 

Enhancing the coordination between the hands, eyes and brain, as well as strengthening the dexterity and control of the hands will support children's writing as they gradually develop the correct technique of tripod grasp.

]]> 2019-08-12 06:53:55 UTC https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/374073246 twelvejellyfishes2018 https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/375154112 2019-08-17 06:33:44 UTC https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/375154112 twelvejellyfishes2018 https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/375160787 2019-08-17 10:29:57 UTC https://padlet.com/elsyliyiqing/4cu6o6fm9kxz/wish/375160787