Writing in Play

After the webinar and as the school started back, I have my writing time quite different from before. Listening to Stacey about how we can incorporate writing daily in our children's play really encouraged to change my writing practice.

At the moment I have a group of children who have good understanding about letter sounds and can write a sentence. Others are still in the process of developing these or who do not have letter sounds yet. I think it is so important to understand where children are in terms of their development and provide developmentally appropriate practice accordingly.

What I have been doing with the children are providing writing opportunities during their play. I go into their play and talk about what we can write about while they are playing. We have made signs for their shops/house, name tag, writing a story about their play, and also talking about how our writing looks like. Mark making is a part of writing and since I started talking about this, the more children are doing mark making and are not afraid to do so.

Here are some examples of their writing

I have been taking photos of writing and documenting in my writing recording doc so that I can see a progress when they move onto the next developmental stage.