October 31,2019
Debate to Scribe or not to Scribe?
According to Alan November "Scribing is giving every student an opportunity to shine" (41). I feel every child can use their creativity in their writing. Each child, no matter the age group can show their personality when writing and drawing. Scribing can teach us something about each unique student by showing their own expression.
For my weekly app practical, I combined the magic doodle app and the voice recorder. Children in early childhood draw with scribing because they are not able to write yet. However, the students could still own the learning by talking into the voice recorder app about their drawing in the magic doodle app.
My problem that I see in the classroom is that kindergarteners and early childhood students can not typically scribe because they do not have writing skills. Alan November's idea of having the student be the official note taker of the class discussion would not work in my classroom as this is geared to older children above early childhood and Kindergarten. Students could use inventive spelling but in the case of my model student, she wasn't ready yet so her voice for scribing was significant.
Here is the screen shot of the voice recorder app
This is a visual of the voice recorder of how you use the mic to record in the app.
Here is the screen shot of the magic doddle app.
This is the template for the magic doddle app the student uses to draw in.
She said she drew broken lines, spiral lines, and straight lines.
Scribbling and drawing are the first stages of writing in early childhood. There is nothing wrong with scribbling as it is a form of scribing. It is helpful for parents as long as the child is using their oral language to tell about their drawing or story. I could even have the children scribe their story with a voice app or using invented spelling as mentioned above. Here is a picture below of a child's scribbles. The picture is scribed similar to something I can use in my preschool or toddler classroom.
Source: https://www.themeasuredmom.com/stages-of-writing-development-help-kids-move/
In my model classroom, kindergarten level, I decided the students would do drawing with the magic board doodle color app. I had the student draw a picture and then as the teacher, I would scribe to do the writing for a child that struggles with doing physical writing. The teacher can encourage invented spelling or use a voice app. This would have the children own their learning more than having the teacher do all the writing for them.
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For scribing, she orally told me. "Bartlett bear is a special bear. I take the stuffed bear to my Dad's and to Disney. A few Christmas ago I got a blanket and a bear. The people who gave it to me have the last name of Barlett."
Here is a photo of her Bartlett Bear Teddy Bear.
Next, the child wanted to draw some more with the app and she drew some shapes.
Last, she drew a picture of herself.
This is the little girl having fun drawing and scribing what she drew while I am working with her as the teacher. She was so excited in the first photo and the second photo down below she is very focused.
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Another student I taught said, "I drew a dirt corner with sticks. I will dig with sticks at school".
She also said, "This a drawing of Lily the dog and me. We were playing in the backyard. Then Lily chased a bird."
This is a photo of the starry night.
These are screen shots of the magic doodle app with all the drawings. The app will save them into an album. The first drawing she did was of a dog with ice cream. The dog got ice cream from the ice-cream truck. He scooped it up and brought it into its backyard.
Photos of the drawings.
She was so focused on drawing that she didn't want to stop the task.
The child that was interested in trains drew this picture with the app. He said it was his train locomotive.
I would love to see how I could use the magic board doodle app in an actual Kindergarten classroom.
The app would be fun for the children to play with and then type on the computer to make their own story. Some children may need the teacher to help with the scribing but first see if the children can use invented spelling when they are ready to move onto this stage. Each child develops at a different rate and has different learning curves.
Scribbling and drawing are the first stages of writing in early childhood. There is nothing wrong with scribbling as it is a form of scribing. It is helpful for parents as long as the child is using their oral language to tell about their drawing or story. I could even have the children scribe their story with a voice app or using invented spelling as mentioned above. Here is a picture below of a child's scribbles. The picture is scribed similar to something I can use in my preschool or toddler classroom.
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Source: https://www.themeasuredmom.com/stages-of-writing-development-help-kids-move/
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In my model classroom, kindergarten level, I decided the students would do drawing with the magic board doodle color app. I had the student draw a picture and then as the teacher, I would scribe to do the writing for a child that struggles with doing physical writing. The teacher can encourage invented spelling or use a voice app. This would have the children own their learning more than having the teacher do all the writing for them.
First, the student drew pictures with the app and then I scribed by writing down what they told me what the picture represented.
With the magic color doddle app the student drew a picture of her Bartlett stuffed animal teddy bear.
This is a photo of the starry night.
Photos of the drawings.
She was so focused on drawing that she didn't want to stop the task.
I would love to see how I could use the magic board doodle app in an actual Kindergarten classroom.
The app would be fun for the children to play with and then type on the computer to make their own story. Some children may need the teacher to help with the scribing but first see if the children can use invented spelling when they are ready to move onto this stage. Each child develops at a different rate and has different learning curves.
In our graduate class last year we talked about the debate if we should scribe or not for children.
These text books below are good references.
(https://www.amazon.com/Engaging-Young-Writers-Preschool-Grade-1/dp/032501745X)
https://www.amazon.com/Already-Ready-Nurturing-Preschool-Kindergarten/dp/0325010730/ref=pd_sbs_14_img_0/134-4392293-1039937?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0325010730&pd_rd_r=c3fc3818-5bc1-4d2b-9b3b-4e120c5803c9&pd_rd_w=X2lMD&pd_rd_wg=KHh36&pf_rd_p=5cfcfe89-300f-47d2-b1ad-a4e27203a02a&pf_rd_r=FPC949WZ5F5ZT7A0JWSZ&psc=1&refRID=FPC949WZ5F5ZT7A0JWSZ
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Here is an article on the advantages of invented spelling which I think would own the learning similar to Alan November's belief from a good teacher source on reading rockets.
Invented Spelling and Spelling Development
Children progress through certain stages of spelling development. Knowing this progression allows teachers to compel development through their instruction. Find out strategies for doing so in this article, such as promoting the use of invented spelling in the early stages.
I would also use a balanced literacy approach if I taught in a kindergarten classroom. Here is the link below. https://medium.com/lalilo/how-to-implement-balanced-literacy-for-kindergarten-8110acc3e438
How to Implement Balanced Literacy for Kindergarten
A well-developed and robust balanced literacy program will include three major components: reading work, writing work, and word work. Within these different factors comes further branching off of activities on an individual and group level. Reading workshops allow a proliferation of reading techniques to be accumulated within the students' comprehensive abilities and knowledge.
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