For preschoolers, you can conduct dictations, but they will not be simple, but graphic. As a result of this, an image will appear, and the child will be able to practice counting to ten and learn the concepts of “right-left”, “up-down”. If you, as a teacher, give your students several graphic dictations a week, then within a few months they will stop being confused about counting and will begin to correctly navigate the concepts of “right-left” and “top-bottom”.
Drawing graphic dictations also allows children to focus on what they are listening to and hearing what the teacher is saying. This is one of the most important skills in school and children should develop it by learning to maintain attention on one task.
It is very important for preschoolers to properly tune in to graphic dictation by cells. Such a task should be a game for the child, and it is important that it conveys only a positive impression and sparks interest, and not be an unpleasant chore.
Airplane example
If you see that a child often makes mistakes, it is worth helping the child and explaining what he is doing wrong so that his interest in such an activity as drawing a picture by cell does not fade away. The main thing in graphic dictation is that the child wants to draw in the cells again and again, mastering the skills of good study.
What will be easiest for a child to draw:
- Dog
- Flower
- Ship
- Butterfly
- Robot
- Car
- Deer
- Rocket
The whole task consists of the child drawing short lines on a piece of paper in a box, guiding where to draw the pencil line, listening to the teacher’s dictation. The child will master the skills of drawing straight, neat lines, learn to write something from dictation, and strengthen their counting skills.
The teacher will have to say that you need to draw a line to the left three cells, and then go up one cell, draw a line to the right one cell, go up two cells again, and so on.
Christmas tree
After the baby completes his drawing by cells, he should be able to create, for example, an airplane. If the child listened carefully and followed the teacher’s commands, then he will get a correct and complete picture. If the picture doesn’t work out, then the graphic dictation was not done correctly, but the baby doesn’t need to be upset, just pay him a little more attention next time and help him correct the mistakes.
Drawing an elephant
To print, click on the picture, it will open in an additional window, then right-click and select “Print”.
In order to conduct graphic dictations with a group of children or individually, the teacher needs to prepare. First you will need to find suitable videos or pictures and print them out; it is advisable that the pictures not only show the results of the dictation, but also contain explanations for each of them. This will make this task much easier for children.
Drawing a house by cells
To do square drawing in a group, you should seat the children at tables and give them each a sheet of paper in a square and a pencil with an eraser. Explain to the children what to do, you don’t have to tell them what will happen as a result of your game, let them find it even more interesting.
Preparation. Draw a car by cells
The main thing is that the children listen to you carefully and correctly carry out what you tell them. If the task is being performed by a group for the first time, take your time and make sure that the children can keep up with your dictation. Encourage your children to draw straight, neat lines slowly so that their drawings will turn out beautiful.
For the first time, you can draw with chalk on the board while the children draw on the leaves so that they know what they need to do, and then the children can start drawing without your prompting. Also, it would be useful, before graphically drawing pictures, to repeat with the children where the right and left directions are, up and down, as well as counting to ten.
After the children have completed the dictation, praise them for their efforts, and work together on mistakes, if, of course, they were made. If little students like to do such tasks, then you can give them the task of dreaming up their own imagination and drawing pictures according to the cells, and then together you will come up with an exercise for this drawing.
Dog
For example, there is good drawing, which can be used if the task is completed by children independently for the first time. You need to draw a dog, to do this you need to put a dot in the middle of the piece of paper on the right. This will be the starting point of the picture.
From this point you will need to move 1 cell to the right, 3 up, 2 right, 1 up, 1 right, 3 down, 6 right, 1 up, 1 right, 1 up, 1 right, 2 down, 1 left, 4 down, 1 left, 2 down, 3 left, 1 up, 1 right, 1 up, 2 left, 1 down, 1 left, 1 down, 2 left, 1 up, 1 right, 2 up, 1 left, 1 up, 3 left, 1 up.
