Of a very different nature - designers, various electronic tutorials, puzzles, mosaics and much more. All of them help to develop very important skills in a child - attention, perseverance, develop logic and thinking.
Today I want to offer you another interesting type of developmental activities - graphic dictation. I'm just in love with him. To be honest, it is no less interesting and exciting for me than my son to complete the task in order to see at the end what was encrypted in the picture.
Geographical dictation is drawing by cells. The path for drawing is prescribed, and if you complete the task clearly and correctly, you will end up with some kind of image (a dog, a car, etc.). The process itself is very exciting, since the picture is born before your eyes, you want to complete the task faster to see what was encrypted, but you can’t rush, because in a hurry you can do something wrong and then the image will not work.
Graphic dictation is very useful for preschoolers. It helps to develop very important skills in a child - attentiveness, perseverance, coordination of movement, fine motor skills of fingers.
How to conduct a lesson with graphic dictations
1. Print the name of the picture you like, the dictation itself is written below (numbers with arrows). Just in case, I'll explain the notation:
2 - means that you need to draw a line 2 cells down,
3
- means that you need to draw a line 3 cells up,
5
- draw a line 5 cells to the right,
2
- draw a line 2 cells to the left,
1
- diagonal down and to the right by one cell
2
- diagonal down and to the left by two cells
2
- diagonal up and to the left by two cells
3
- diagonal up and to the right by two cells
2. There is a dot in the figure - this is the starting point, the task must be performed from it.
3. The lesson itself can be carried out in two ways - you dictate the moves to the child, or he does it on his own, looking at the path (my son has been doing it himself for 5 years, so as not to get confused by the task that he circled around, then he himself draws some more done in the picture).
Good luck to you!
Download graphic dictation
| small house | boat | Swan |
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Many tasks such as graphic dictations for children 6-7 years old and preschoolers, develop spatial thinking and perception of the world around them, perseverance and attentiveness, and most importantly help prepare preschoolers for writing and the basics of mathematics.
- this is very interesting tasks, which the child must complete on paper in a box under dictation. The very technique of graphic dictation is based on the education of attention and fine motor skills baby. It is very useful to develop this before the baby goes to school, but it’s not scary if the child has already gone to the first or 2nd grade, these tasks will be a useful addition to education.
- To complete the graphic dictation exercise, you need to prepare sample tasks, and for the child a sheet of paper, a writing tool (pencil, pen, felt-tip pen), a small ruler and an eraser. It is easier to use a pencil for the smallest students, the fourth or fifth year of life is already suitable for this type of exercise.
- Also for preschoolers, you can make special sheets of paper on which there will be large cells (not standard half a centimeter, but for example - 1 cm each), they can be drawn in advance or printed. But here, children should perform a graphic dictation of grade 1 on notebooks in a standard cage.
You will have a drawing on your sheet, it can be different animals, a pattern or transport. The purpose of the exercise for children is to repeat the actions you dictated, at the end of which you should get a one-on-one pattern with a sample.
Rules for drawing by cells
Tasks are carried out according to certain rules, this is not a math lesson, but it still teaches children the basics of counting and the concepts of direction in space. At the very beginning, you put a dot on the paper at the corner of the cell (this will be the starting point), it should be in such a place that the child, repeating the pattern, can fit it on the sheet. Also, your child can put this point on his own, but you should say how much he should retreat from the top and side of the sheet.
Next, arrows will be drawn on your sheet, indicating the sides of the direction of space and numbers - indicating how many cells you need to draw to get the desired pattern. Example: horizontal arrows "5←" - five cells to the left, "1→" - one cell to the right.
Vertical arrows "3" - three cells up, "6↓" - six cells down. Diagonal arrows: "2↖" - two cells diagonally up to the left, "4↗" - four diagonally up to the right, "↘" - down to the right, "↙" - down to the left.
Variants of graphic dictations by cells
- Dictations can be simple or complex, it all depends on the level of development of your child. So, for example, dictation for preschoolers should be very easy, because kids are just learning to hold pencils in their hands and are just starting to navigate in space. But dictations in the cells for children in grades 1 - 2 can be more difficult and the pattern can be made in different colors.
- Exercises can be written in text ( short story) or simply have directions and numbers. More options for dictations can be intended for different sexes. So a graphic dictation for boys can consist of drawings that the boys liked, these can be: a robot, an airplane, animals (pelican, rhinoceros, dog, etc.). Whereas for girls, the picture can be: a flower, a doll, a cat, etc.
Simple tasks
Simple exercises are considered easy in repetition and in form. So, for example, you can teach the basics of geometry using pictures with squares, triangles, trapezoids, rhombuses, etc. To make it easier for the little one to complete the lesson, help and guide him while sitting next to him.
If the baby is confused, then tell him that he drew in the wrong place and be sure to praise him with the right action. In simple lessons, the lines should be directed strictly horizontally or vertically. You can draw a hint in the corner of the leaflet, in the form of arrows and a number of direction names.
Dog
To draw the dictation "Dog" - retreat six cells to the left of the sheet and six from the top, put a point, start drawing from it:
2→, 1, 2→, 1, 1→, 5↓, 7→, 2, 1→, 3↓, 1←, 7↓, 2←, 1, 1→, 3, 6←, 4↓, 2←, 1, 1→, 3, 1←5, 3, ←2.
Color the dog in yellow, draw an eye on it, you can finish the spots in a different color, for example, brown.
Robot
We retreat from the top 6 cells and to the left - 7, draw from the point:
1→, 1, 3→, 1↓, 1→, 1↓, 1←, 1↓, 1←, 1↓, 3→, 1↓, 2←, 2↓, 1→, 2↓, 1→, 1↓, 3←, 2, 1←, 2↓, 3←, 1, 1→, 2, 1→, 2, 2←, 1, 3→, 1, 1←, 1, 1←, 1.
Color in any color.
Robot (graphic dictation on the cells), draw on the cells of the robot
The car
To draw a car - retreat two cells to the left of the sheet and 9 from the top, put a point, start from it:
4→, 2, 8→, 2↓, 3→, 3↓, 2←, 1, 2←, 1↓, 6←, 1, 2←, 1↓, 3←, 3.
Offer to finish the wheels and windows with doors near the car, decorate it in any color.
Difficult tasks
The difficult lesson is that the drawing is not simple in shape, it is no longer just squares and triangles, but full-fledged graphic drawings with many curves. In addition to horizontal and vertical lines, you can add diagonals.
This complicates the process quite a lot, and it should be done if the child loses interest and completes everything very quickly. Also you can add different colors, i.e. one part of the drawing is drawn in one color (red), and for the second half the color changes (blue or green).
Donkey
In order to get a donkey, you need to retreat 32 cells on the left and 2 on top, put a dot and start:
1→, 2↓, 1→, 1, 1→, 1, 1→, 2↓, 1←, 2↓, 1→, 5↓, 1→, 3↓, 1←, 1↓, 2←, 1, 1←, 1, 1←, 1, 1←, 4↓, 1←, 2↓, 1←, 2↓, 1←, 2↓, 1←, 2↓, 1←, 6↓, 1←, 7, 1←, 3, 1←, 1, 1←, 1↓, 1←, 1↓, 6←, 1, 1←, 1, 2←, 1↓, 1←, 2↓, 1←, 1↓, 1←, 1↓, 1←, 6↓, 1←, 8, 1→, 5, 1←, 1, 1←, 4↓, 1←6, 1→, 1, 1→, 1, 1→, 1, 2→, 1, 14→, 1, 2→, 1, 2→, 1, 2→, 1, 1→, 1, 1→, 3.
Color the donkey in gray and finish the eye.
Airplane
Try to draw an airplane with your baby, for this, use a special "formula":
2→, 1↘, 5→, 3↖, 2→, 3↘, 4→, 1↘, 2←, 1, 1→, 2↘, 5←, 3↙, 2←, 3↗, 5←, 3↖, connect at the starting point. Color the airplane grey, blue or in green, do not paint over the cockpit.
Kangaroo
So, the kangaroo graphic dictation needs to start by setting a dot, retreating 2 from the left and 5 from the top:
1, 2→, 1, 1→, 1, 1→, 1, 1→, 1, 1→, 1, 2→, 1, 1→, 4, 1→, 1↓, 1→, 1↓, 1 →, 1↓, 1←, 2↓, 2→, 2↓, 1←, 1, 1←, 1↓, 1←, 2↓, 2←, 1↓, 2→, 1↓, 4←, 1 , 1←, 1, 1←, 1↓, 1←, 1↓, 3←, connected to the beginning.
Color the kangaroo in orange, finish the eye.
Kangaroo (graphic dictation on the cells), draw on the cells of a kangaroo
Giraffe
To draw a giraffe you need from the starting point:
1↗, 2→, 1, 1→, 10↓, 4→, put a point, from it 2↘, 1→, 1↓, 1←, 1, returned to the set point, from it 8↓, 1 to the left, 5 , back 5↓, 1←, 5, 3←, 5↓, 1←, 4, 1↙, 2↓, 1←, 2, 2↗, 1↖, 1, 1↗, 7, 1←, 1↖ and connect to the starting point.
You can draw spots on a giraffe and draw an eye.
Rybka
To draw a graphic dictation fish - retreat six cells to the left of the sheet and seven from the top, put a point, start drawing from it:
1→, 1, 3→, 1, 2→, 1↓, 2→, 1↓, 1→, 1, 1→, 1, 1→, 1, 1→, 1, 2→, 3↓, 1←, 1↓, 1←, 2↓, 1→, 1↓, 1→, 3↓, 2←, 1, 1←, 1, 1←, 1, 1←, 1, 1←, 1↓, 2←, 1↓, 2←, 1, 3←, 1, 1←, 2.
Color the fins of the fish in blue, finish the eye, and paint the fish itself in green or purple.
Fish (graphic dictation by cells), draw a fish by cells
Preparing for school is a long stage in your child's development. Classes should begin no earlier than a year before this moment. Educators and parents have a huge selection of a wide variety of math exercises and tasks to achieve this goal. Among them, graphic dictations in cells for preschoolers are of no small importance.
Fun or hard task?
For many guys, such pictures in the cells in a notebook are interesting game and exciting entertainment. It is important for an adult not to turn this activity into a boring, tedious duty, where the baby is scolded for failures. And then the child will always be happy to do it.
But for many kids, it can be difficult. Most often they are associated with the fact that the child has not yet mastered the count within 10, he confuses the concepts of “right-left”, “top-bottom”. In this case, adults need to help the baby avoid mistakes, correct him, and praise him for a positive result.
Age at which you can start exercising
You can start drawing by cells with a child from the age of 4. The first homework at this age should be easy. At first, you can complete the task with the baby on a board or piece of paper so that he sees how to move. For beginners, drawing simple geometric shapes. You can start with the image of a square, rectangle, simple patterns. You can learn to move diagonally from the drawings of a triangle, trapezoid, rhombus.
At 5 years old, a child may well draw simple pictures from dictation without visual support.. For example, you can invite him to draw a flower on paper. Also, a five-year-old preschooler can quite cope with drawing a house or an airplane.
For children 6-7 years old, tasks can begin to complicate, introducing more diagonal lines into them. An example of such a task would be a drawing of a rocket.
Lesson methodology
The lesson should begin with the preparation of the workplace and necessary materials . Drawings are made in a notebook in a box with a simple pencil. In order for the child to have the opportunity to correct the mistake, an eraser is required, with which incorrectly drawn lines are removed. An adult should prepare or print out an instruction with a sample task. You can not tell the child which drawing will be the goal of the graphic dictation. After correct execution, he will see the result on his sheet.
As a rule, the instructions offer digital designations with arrows, such as 2, 3←. The numbers in this case indicate the number of cells by which it is necessary to move in a given direction. It is indicated by an arrow that is drawn next to the number. So, in our example, you should read: move 2 cells up, 3 cells to the left. They start moving from the starting point, which the adult sets himself for the younger children, and older preschoolers can already be offered to set it on their own.
Before starting a lesson for preschoolers, you need to repeat with them the count within 10, the concepts of “right-left”, “top-bottom”. You can ask the baby to show what it means to "move to the right side, move up, to the left of, move down."
Try to diversify the very conduct of the graphic dictation by including tongue twisters, tongue twisters, riddles, finger gymnastics, physical minutes, discussion of the results obtained and a conversation or story. It is desirable that everything included in the lesson be on the same topic as the drawing.
Before conducting a graphic dictation, give the child the installation that it is necessary to try to draw even, neat lines and be very careful when completing the task.
After the dictation is over, be sure to praise the baby for achieved result, if necessary, together with him, find the place where he made a mistake and correct it. If the child has a desire, then you can invite him to color the finished picture or shade it. If the child is not tired yet and wants to continue the lesson, then you can ask him to come up with a drawing by cells on his own, and then together with him make a graphic dictation according to his figure.
Methods for conducting graphic dictations
You can conduct a graphic dictation in different ways.
- For those guys who are just starting to deal with them, the easiest way is suitable - under the dictation of an adult. In this case, the teacher or parent dictates to the child how many cells and in what direction it is necessary to move.
An example of such a dictation is the dictation "Dog". The task is performed by a crumb under the dictation of instructions by adults.
- The second way is to offer the child a sheet of paper on which the instructions for completing the task are written and the starting point is set from which the child needs to move. The child himself looks at the number of cells and the direction of movement.
See graphic dictation as an example
- "The car"
- "Horse"
- "Ship"
- The third way is drawing by symmetry. In such dictations, the child is offered a sheet on which half of the drawing is shown and a line of symmetry is drawn. The child completes the drawing by symmetrically counting the required number of cells.
Here, an adult draws half of the Christmas tree and draws a line of symmetry. Children are invited to finish the second half symmetrically.
- The fourth method is suitable for older children. Here the child is offered a sheet with a sample of graphic dictation. The child must draw the same picture on his sheet as in the sample, independently counting the required number of cells and determining the direction in which he needs to move. Such dictations can be not only in the form of drawing lines through the cells, but also with painting over the required number of cells with colored pencils completely. As a result, the baby in the notebook gets a colorful, beautiful picture.
Who said that preschoolers do not have dictations? Have you heard about dictations, as a result of which a picture appears on a piece of paper? The kid in the game trains counting skills. Real graphic dictation by cells not only for preschoolers, but also for elementary school students.
What is a graphic dictation by cells
Graphic dictation is not quite an ordinary dictation. This is more of a game for a child than learning. But interesting tasks develop in children attentiveness and the ability to distinguish between directions: right-left, down-up. In addition, the baby must be able to count. Don't think it's difficult. The whole dictation consists in drawing short lines on a regular notebook sheet in the box. The kid learns to draw a line evenly, write under the dictation of an adult and count a little.
The teacher says for example: draw a line to the right by 2 cells, now up by 1 cell and down by 5, etc.
After the end of the dictation, a figure appears on a notebook sheet. It can be a bird, a house, a Christmas tree, a dog or other animal. The figurine will "appear" only if the dictation was performed correctly, if the child did not make a mistake anywhere.
Children love this kind of exercise. They are happy to draw in the cells and ask to repeat the lesson again and again.
What you need for a graphic dictation
If you want to conduct a graphic dictation with a group of children or in a classroom in a lesson, you need to prepare everything in advance. Put the children at the tables, hand them pencils (it's easier to correct a mistake in dictation), checkered leaves (you can use notebooks with a large cage) and an eraser.
Then you should explain to the children how the dictation will be conducted. First, we talk with the children what we will do:
Now we will draw interesting figures. What, I won't tell you. You will see this if you do the work correctly, you will listen to me carefully and not confuse the right-left direction.
I will dictate to you how many cells you need to draw lines and in what direction. You will draw these lines through the cells without lifting the pencil from the paper, and then together we will see what happened.
Try to keep your lines smooth and beautiful, then the drawing will turn out wonderful.
For the first time, you can try to draw on the board with the children so that they can see how they need to work, and the second and subsequent dictations can be done by little students without your prompting.
With kids before the dictation, it would be useful to repeat where the right and left hands are, how to draw a line to the right and left.
After completing the dictation, be sure to praise the children, correct the mistakes together, if any. If a preschooler likes such exercises, you can ask them to come up with and draw figures on the cells themselves, and then together make an interesting graphic dictation.
Variants of graphic dictations by cells
Dictation "Elephant"
Place a dot in the upper left corner. This will be the beginning of our picture. Starting from the point, draw lines through the cells:
4 squares right, 1 down, 5 right, 8 down, 3 left, 3 up, 1 left, 3 down, 3 left, 4 up, 1 left, 2 down, 1 left, 1 down, 1 left, 2 up, 1 right, 6 up.
Dictation "Golden Key"
Put a dot in the middle of the sheet on the left. Start drawing lines from this point: count 8 cells to the right, 2 up, 3 right, 5 down, 3 left, 2 up, 4 left, 3 down, 1 left, 1 up, 1 left, 1 down, 1 left, 3 up, 1 left , 1 up.
Dictation "Bunny"
Step back 5 cells on the right and 3 on top, put a dot. We will draw from this point. Draw 1 cell right, 3 down, 2 right, 2 down, 1 left, 2 down, 3 right, 3 down, 1 left, 1 up, 1 left, 2 down, 1 right, 2 down, 2 right, 1 down, 6 left, 1 up, 1 left, 1 up, 1 right, 12 up.
Together with the children, sort out what the figures turned out to be. For each figure, you can come up with small rhymes or sayings.
I hope your kids enjoy doing graphic dictations in the cells. On the pictures (they are clickable), I chose the most interesting graphic dictations for kids.
I hope you will be able to draw interesting figures with your children by doing such graphic dictations. Write in the comments which dictations you liked best and good luck in learning!
