Taking children's dictation about their art work is not an effective early literacy activity?? true or false??

Question

Taking children's dictation about their art work is not an effective early literacy activity?? true or false??

Answer 1

FALSE. It is part of the learning activity that children tell something about their artworks. In this way, children expresses their ideas that make you realize their concepts of different things around them.

Answer 2

I agree with artsmom7, that is absolutely false. Your helping children to start making connections of thoughts and ideas and tying together the pictures and the words.

Answer 3

False. Not only does it validate the value of the work for the child, but it also demonstrates to the child that the "scribbles" we adults see on the page tell a story. Telling a story through pictures leads to writing about the pictures. Writing about the pictures develops the child's creative writing skills. Becoming literate is about being a successful writer as well as a successful reader.

It can also show the child how letters come together to form words and words come together to form sentences, an important concept of print that beginning readers must understand in order to make sense of text in a book.

Answer 4

FALSE. Taking children's dictation teaches them that their spoken words can be written down and read again later. They also observe that writing is from left to right.

Answer 5

False, because the more a child talks about their art work, and explains to you what they were feeling at the time, they painted it,or drew it, is very important to them, and us the listener, the more they talk about anything is not only important for growth, in words, but a growth to them, knowing someone wants to hear and does make  it all worth while to them, it kind of validates, their art work, and themselves; it shows them that they can believe in themselves and so do others.It is always a joy to hear children talk, especially about what interests them and why!

Answer 6

True. When children draw, many times they are just experimenting with the materials, seeing the interesting designs they can make, or seeing how much glue they can squeeze from a bottle. Up until the age of four or five, they do not have a definite product in mind. Younger children may make a scribble and then name it, an older child may say "I'm going to draw a ----." and will draw something recognizable. Sometimes children will  make up an answer because that is what they know you expect, but it is not really a literacy activity based on art because they are merely pleasing you and not basing it on the work of art. If children spontaneously tell you a story, then I would record it, but I would not prompt them to tell you a story.It takes away from the value of the art itself.