The development of writing and drawing is dependent on a mental and physical progression. A child needs skills such as concentration, memory, fine motor and language skills in order to be able to draw and then write.
Drawing is a pre-writing skill. Pre-writing skills are fundamental to learning to write.
Pre-writing skills are the child’s ability to hold a pencil, draw, colour, copy.
What do the scribbles mean? Should we ask them more about their ‘picture’?
For children to develop writing skills they need to be exposed to it, surrounded by it. We can model the uses and functions of writing for them to learn.