Label your child's drawings to demonstrate sounding out words and to show that writing communicates a message.Isadora has recently really been into drawing - it's a new thing. While they were little scribbles before, there are now heads emerging and occasionally a leg or hand. In any case, I will ask them what they are and she has a quick answer. "Lincoln with crazy hair" or "Fog" or "Wonderland."
(A parental side note: Fog and Wonderland look almost exactly the same by the way...just a lot of crazy circling. I think Fog was probably the most appropriate title.)
I have been taking a pen and writing her titles underneath, sounding the words out methodically as I go along. Occasionally I will stop and ask her for a letter if I think she knows it. Most of the time I just let her watch me as I sound it out.
Almost all kindergarten or first grade classrooms do this exact exercise - the children will draw a picture and the teacher comes around, asks them what the drawing is about, and then writes it down for them or writes it on a post-it note for them to transcribe onto their paper. Since Isadora doesn't have the fine motor control for that, I am just writing them for her.
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