Draw, write, speak! Fun literacy activities for preschoolers
Turn everyday moments into meaningful literacy learning with Wriddle! With tools to draw, write, and record their voice, young children can bring their ideas to life while naturally strengthening both oral and written language.
Whether you are a preschool teacher or parent, use these seven exciting ideas to transform device time into a hands-on language experience for a fun start to your child's literacy journey.
1. Retell a Story or Experience
Ask your child to remember a story you’ve read or something you have done together and bring it to life in their own words.
✅ Literacy Skills: Comprehension, sequencing, oral language
Your child can start by drawing a scene from the story. Use the microphone to have them describe what is happening. Have older kids write a sentence or work together to transcribe what they have recorded.
2. Share an Opinion
Ask your child to tell the world what they think about a book you’ve read together. They simply draw a picture of a part they liked or didn't like and use the microphone to share their opinion verbally.
✅ Literacy Skills: Expressing opinions, speaking, vocabulary development
3. Letter Sound Hunt
Can you think of words that start with the letter "B"? Let’s find out! Pick a letter with your child. Have them think of objects that begin with this letter. Draw the objects and record their labels or use the objects to tell a story!
✅ Literacy Skills: Phonemic awareness, letter recognition, vocabulary building
4. Let's Label!
Oral language explodes around age 3, when children can add close to 8 new words a day! Around age four, children generally begin to understand that the writing they see in the books is associated with these word.
As your child draws pictures in Wixie, encourage them to use the pencil to label what is in the painting. Use the pencil to add a label and the microphone to describe it with more detail.
✅ Literacy Skills: Categorization, vocabulary development, phonetic spelling
Parent Connection: Don't panic if your young child doesn't spell words correctly. Your child is just beginning to associate letters with sounds, so trying to guess what a word looks like based on what letters sound like is much more important than correct spelling, which often doesn't have anything to do with how letters sound in many English words.
5. Sight Word Story
If you want your child to write, try a sight word story. Sight words are high-frequency words that are learned by recognition rather than sounding out to improve reading fluency.
Have your child choose a few sight words to write or dictate a simple sentence. For example, "I go ____ and I see ____." Then, have them create an illustration and read the sentence into the microphone.
✅ Literacy Skills: Sight word recognition, storytelling, fluency
6. Sing a Song or Nursery Rhyme
Illustrate and perform a favorite nursery rhyme or song! Ask your child to draw a picture that matches the rhyme or song and use the microphone to record it.
✅ Literacy Skills: Rhyme recognition, fluency, expressive language
7. Remix a Favorite Story
Take your child's favorite pattern story and have them make their own version. Start by typing a simple sentence your child can complete. Let them finish it while you type their answer. Then, have them draw a picture about it and record their sentence.
✅ Literacy Skills: Independent creativity, decision-making, and fine motor skills
There are so many ways to turn everyday moments into meaningful literacy learning with Wriddle! As they share stories and ideas, your child builds foundations for the communication skills they need to thrive.
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