Drawing provides products to talk about with adults and other children. Secure a clip to the cardboard to hold several pieces of blank paper. Children can also take their clipboards on walks or on field trips to make field drawings and words of what they hear and see. After the walk or field trip, children can share their information with adults and peers. In this program children can both draw, paint, use stamps, and write on each page.
Children can also stamp letters or use the type option to write.
The drawings can be saved and placed in a slide show or printed out to create a book. Children can choose to draw or write, collect their work in a portfolio, show a slide show, and print out to create a book. Talking, drawing, and writing about the experiences fosters emergent literacy development. After a field trip or other shared learning experience, tell the children that you are going to help them make a book about it. Offer several sheets of paper and invite children to draw pictures of their experiences.