🖍 Mark Making
Provide crayons, chalk, paint, markers, pencils, and sensory materials for purposeful exploration.
✏️ Writing & Mark Making
Support children's early writing by providing materials, purpose, time, and encouragement to communicate through marks and print.
EMERGENT WRITING
Give Children Reasons to Write
Writing develops through exploration. Offer varied materials and meaningful reasons for children to draw, mark, copy, label, sign, and write.
✍️ Name Writing
Use children's names in authentic classroom experiences without turning writing into a worksheet only activity.
📝 Purposeful Print
Invite children to make signs, lists, menus, messages, labels, plans, and notes during play.
🤲 Fine Motor Support
Strengthen hand and finger control through varied drawing, building, manipulating, and sensory experiences.