Preparing a child for school is a long and obligatory process. Therefore, psychologists and pediatricians recommend starting a year before first grade, in kindergarten or at home. Because the baby needs to be prepared not only for mental and physical stress, but also moral. In general, how to educate, help to become more diligent, attentive and courageous.

If a child can still be mentally prepared for big changes, through communication with peers in the yard and kindergarten. You can teach your child to be more attentive, develop writing skills, and carefully complete certain tasks with the help of graphic dictations and drawing in cells. Today, this is an incredibly popular activity that has won the hearts of not only preschool children, but also teenagers. This is a way to teach your child to write, develop logic, abstract thinking, perseverance and painstakingness, as well as fine motor skills handles With the help of this activity, the child develops coordination, stability and corrects the correctness of his movements, so to speak, “fills up” a steady hand", which will undoubtedly help him at school, when writing dictations and notes in a short period of time.

What are graphic dictations? Imagine in front of you a sheet of paper with cells drawn on it. The task contains arrows (showing direction) and numbers (showing the number of cells that need to be passed in the indicated direction). If you follow the signs accurately and carefully, draw a line in the right direction at the right distance, you get an image - a picture. In other words: graphic dictations are drawing in cells using the pointers in the task.

Such activities are recommended not only for children preschool age, in kindergartens, but for children under 12 years of age. After all, attentiveness and coordination of movements can be developed at an older age. An exciting activity is an entertaining leisure activity not only for children, but also for adults. The recommended age for starting to draw graphic dictations is from 4 years. It is at this age that fine motor skills begin to develop, with the help of drawing in cells.

Graphic dictations are used as an educational game in various places: at home, in extracurricular activities, on vacation, at sea, in the country, and even in a summer camp. It is important to interest children, and what will do this better than such an activity. After all, the end result will be an unknown picture, which can then be painted with pencils or felt-tip pens. By explaining this to your child, you don’t have to worry about his interest in this, not so much an activity as a game that develops his imagination.

So let's start execution. First of all, you need to prepare, namely, purchase a collection of graphic dictations. You can get them not only in specialized children's book stores, but also in stationery stores and second-hand bookstores. They can be downloaded for free on some sites on the Internet (for example, on our website), you can also go to paid sites. The choice of such tasks is large; choose based on the age, gender and hobbies of the child. For kids just starting classes, it is best to choose graphic dictations (drawing by cells) with images of bunnies, cats, and dogs. For girls: princesses, flowers. But you can start with simple ones. geometric shapes: squares, triangles, prisms. This way you will immediately teach your child coordination of movements, improve hand motor skills, develop perseverance and attentiveness, and tell him about the names and types of geometric shapes. For boys, dictations with images of cars, animals, robots, castles, and funny people are suitable. The easiest graphic dictations, with simple figures and performed in one color - for beginners. More complex tasks - for older children. Choose graphic dictations on a topic that interests your child. If your child plays music, use drawings musical instruments, treble clefs and sheet music.

If you have already practiced drawing with your child using squares, start adding variety to your activities. That is, at 5-6 years old, you can do dictations that help you develop even more. That is, buy drawings with those animals that the child has not yet seen and does not know what they look like. Use colors that the baby has not yet learned very well. Expand your child’s horizons in this way, let him increase and replenish his lexicon new words, teaches them, finds out where they can be used. The main thing is good mood, passion and positive attitude of the baby before completing any task. Under such conditions, studying will indeed be incredibly useful, fruitful and not stressful for the child.

After selecting graphic dictations, start preparing. Remember that the child must be praised for a job well done. Even if the picture doesn’t work out yet, you don’t need to constantly prompt, guide and compare with other children. It is necessary to guide and push a little in the right direction. To do this, first of all, you need to teach the child where the left side is and where the right side is. Show where the top and bottom are on the piece of paper. This simple and simple knowledge will help you complete all graphic dictations with 100% accuracy.

Sit near a table with a flat and smooth surface so that the child can sit straight and correctly in the chair. Pay attention to the lighting. Advice: if you want to accustom your child to a school notebook, give him the opportunity to get used to it, learn to navigate, prepare graphic dictations on a sheet of paper, exactly like a school notebook. Now prepare a simple pencil and an eraser so that incorrect stripes can be easily removed and the same dictation can be continued again. Prepare yourself a pencil and eraser as well.

It is worth keeping an eye on the time so that the child does not get tired, so that his hands and eyes rest. Although if the child is not tired and wants to continue and finish the work now, there is no need to take away the dictation, the child will decide for himself when enough is enough.

There are time limits for working with graphic dictations

For children 5 years of age – maximum 15 minutes. For older children, up to 6 years old – a maximum of 20 minutes (from 15 minutes). For first-graders (6 or 7 years old) – maximum 30 minutes, minimum – 20 minutes.

Drawing by squares is a great way to teach your child to use a pencil and pen. Teach how to hold it correctly, practice so that your fingers don’t get so tired from holding an object at school. This exercise will help you teach your child to count correctly, since he will need to count the exact number of cells before starting the lesson.

And so: in front of you lies a graphic dictation task, a pencil. In front of the child is a squared piece of paper or a notebook, an eraser and a simple pencil. On the child’s sheet, with or without your help, a reference point is depicted in the indicated place. Explain that from this point lines begin to be drawn (right, left, down and up), in the direction and with the number of cells that you name. Now proceed, next to the named task, and they are indicated in a line, put a dot with a pencil so as not to forget where you finished the dictation, not to confuse the child and, of course, yourself. Watch what the child is doing. Tell me if the baby is confused about where the left and right sides are. Count together, if necessary, the number of cells.

For example, you have a figure, the most standard one is a house. Tell your child what kind of drawing you will end up with, or keep it a secret for even more interest. From the point you need:

1 → - 1 cell to the right

Dictate clearly; the child must perceive everything by ear. At the end of the work, look at how much the baby’s figures coincide with the given elements. If the baby made a mistake, find out together where exactly. Using an eraser, erase the extra lines, starting from the point of failure, and continue drawing. It is important to maintain the child’s good mood during the learning process.

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Graphic dictations
(Drawing by cells)

Admission to school – important point in the life of a child and his parents. How better baby will be prepared for school psychologically, emotionally and intellectually, the more confident he will feel, the easier his adaptation period will be primary school.

Graphic dictations or drawing in boxes for preschoolers are a good way to help parents and teachers systematically prepare their child for school and prevent such typical learning difficulties as underdeveloped spelling vigilance, restlessness and absent-mindedness. Regular classes with these graphic dictations develop the child’s voluntary attention, spatial imagination, fine motor skills of the fingers, coordination of movements, and perseverance.

Drawing by cells is a very exciting and useful activity for children. This is a playful way to develop a child’s spatial imagination, fine motor skills of the fingers, coordination of movements, and perseverance. Graphic dictations can be successfully used for children from 5 to 10 years old.

By completing the tasks proposed in the graphic dictations below, the child will broaden his horizons, increase his vocabulary, learn to navigate a notebook, and get acquainted with different ways images of objects.

How to work with these graphic dictations:

Each dictation contains tasks for children aged 5–7 years.

Graphic dictation can be performed in two versions:
1. The child is offered a sample of a geometric design and asked to repeat exactly the same design in a checkered notebook.
2. The adult dictates the sequence of actions indicating the number of cells and their directions (left, right, up, down), the child does the work by ear, and then compares his image of the ornament or figure with the example in the manual using the overlay method.

Graphic dictations are supplemented with riddles, tongue twisters, tongue twisters and finger exercises. During the lesson, the child practices correct, clear and literate speech, develops fine motor skills, learns to identify the distinctive features of objects, and expands his vocabulary.

The tasks are selected according to the principle “from simple to complex.” If you start studying these graphic dictations with your child, do the tasks with him in order: start with the very first simple dictations and gradually move on to more complex ones.

For classes, you need a squared notebook, a simple pencil and an eraser so that the child can always correct the wrong line. For children 5–6 years old, it is better to use a notebook with a large square (0.8 mm) so as not to strain their eyesight. Starting from graphic dictation No. 40, all drawings are designed for a regular school notebook (they will not fit in a large-squared notebook).

The following notations are used in the tasks: the number of cells being counted is indicated by a number, and the direction is indicated by an arrow. For example, the entry:

During classes, the child’s attitude and the friendly attitude of the adult are very important. Remember that classes for a child are not an exam, but a game. Help your child, make sure he doesn’t make mistakes. The result of the work should always satisfy the child, so that he wants to draw in the cells again and again.

Your task is to help the child in game form master the skills necessary for good study. Therefore, never scold him. If something doesn’t work out for him, just explain how to do it correctly. Praise your baby more often, and never compare with anyone.

The duration of one lesson with graphic dictations should not exceed 10 - 15 minutes for children 5 years old, 15 - 20 minutes for children 5 - 6 years old and 20 - 25 minutes for children 6 - 7 years old. But if the child gets carried away, you should not stop him and interrupt the lesson.

Pay attention to the child’s sitting position during the dictation and how he holds the pencil. Show your child how to hold a pencil between the phalanges of the index, thumb and middle fingers. If your child doesn't count well, help him count the cells in his notebook.

Before each lesson, be sure to talk with your child about the fact that there are different directions and sides. Show him where is right, where is left, where is up, where is down. Pay attention to the baby that every person has a right and a left side. Explain that the hand with which he eats, draws and writes is right hand, and the other hand is the left. For left-handers, on the contrary, it is necessary to explain to left-handers that there are people for whom the working hand is the right, and there are people for whom the working hand is the left.

After this, you can open the notebook and teach your child to navigate on a piece of paper. Show your child where the left edge of the notebook is, where the right edge is, where the top is, where the bottom is. It can be explained that previously there were slanted desks at school, which is why the top edge of the notebook was called the top edge, and the bottom edge was called the bottom edge. Explain to your child that if you say “to the right,” then you need to point the pencil “there” (to the right). And if you say “to the left,” then you need to point the pencil “there” (to the left) and so on. Show your child how to count the cells.

You yourself will also need a pencil and an eraser in order to mark the lines you read. Dictations can be quite lengthy, and to avoid getting confused, put dots with a pencil opposite the lines you are reading. This will help you not to get confused. After the dictation, you can erase all the dots.

Each lesson includes graphic dictation, discussion of images, tongue twisters, tongue twisters, riddles and finger gymnastics. Each stage of the lesson carries a semantic load. Activities with your child can be arranged in different sequences. You can first do finger exercises, read tongue twisters and tongue twisters, and then do a graphic dictation. On the contrary, you can do graphic dictation first, then tongue twisters and finger gymnastics. It is better to make riddles at the end of the lesson.
When the child draws a picture, talk about the fact that there are objects and their images. Images can be different: photographs, drawings, schematic images. A graphic dictation is a schematic representation of an object.

Talk about how each animal has its own distinctive characteristics. The schematic image shows the distinctive features by which we can recognize an animal or object. Ask your child what the distinctive features of the animal he or she has drawn are. For example, a hare has long ears and a small tail, an elephant has a long trunk, an ostrich has a long neck, a small head and long legs, and so on.

Work with tongue twisters and tongue twisters in different ways:
1. Let the child pick up the ball and, rhythmically tossing and catching it with his hands, say a tongue twister or a tongue twister. You can throw and catch the ball for each word or syllable.
2. Let the child say a tongue twister (pure tongue twister) while throwing the ball from one hand to the other.
3. You can pronounce a tongue twister by clapping the rhythm with your palms.
4. Suggest saying the tongue twister 3 times in a row and not getting lost.
Finger gymnastics do it together so that the child sees and repeats the movements after you.
And now that you have become familiar with the basic rules for conducting a graphic dictation, you can begin classes.

Each dictation opens in a new window. To print it, right-click on the picture and select the “Print” line.

Greetings, friends! Today we’ll talk about graphic dictations - very interesting option developmental activities for children of senior preschool age. Graphic dictations for children 5–6 years old can captivate boys and girls, allowing mothers and fathers to enjoy legitimate ten minutes of peace and quiet, which rarely happen in a house where little perpetual motion machines, jumpers and whys live.

In addition to the fact that almost all children really enjoy this pastime, you will learn from this material:

• what are graphic dictations;
• what are their benefits for the child;
• how to conduct graphic dictations with five-year-olds and older children;
• how to enhance the developmental effect of the lesson.

Graphic dictation: drawing by cells

Everyone understands what a dictation is: it is a type of written work that is used in the learning process to train writing skills, to consolidate and test acquired knowledge.

Graphic dictation involves creating drawings in cells under dictation.

How does this happen:

• The child receives a sheet of paper in a square with the start marked (a bold, clearly visible dot).
• The adult slowly commands how many cells should be drawn and in which direction.
• Step by step, following the adult’s commands, the student creates a graphic image.

Let's consider simplest example, so that you can finally understand what’s what:

To get this picture, you need to sequentially draw from the starting point:

1. 3 cells up;
2. 2 cells down right;
3. 2 cells to the right up;
4. 2 cells down.

When compiling and performing graphic dictations, it is important to take into account simple rules:

• The entire drawing turns out to be a solid broken line. Take the pen off the paper.
• Do not draw on the same line twice.

Sometimes, to make the lesson more interesting, after creating a picture based on a graphic dictation, the child is asked to refine the image: to add elements that give the outline a more complete look:

• curly hair for little men;
• tails and eyes for animals;
• windows for buildings and transport.

The benefits of graphic dictations: who, why

Graphic dictations - effective tool in the program for preparing preschoolers for first grade. Their benefits for children 5–6 years old are enormous:

• train fine motor skills;
• train spelling vigilance;
• develop attentiveness and perseverance;
• stimulate spatial imagination and thinking;
• teach independence;
• have a beneficial effect on hearing.

By performing graphic dictation, the child learns to accurately reproduce instructions given orally. Agree, this is one of the skills that determines the success of learning in the modern school system. It is very important to teach a child to listen and hear, to correctly understand and correctly reproduce the teacher’s words.

Graphic dictations for preschoolers can be turned into a whole game.

First, discussing the task, then directly drawing in the cells, then discussing the finished drawing, finalizing it and coloring it.

• letters;
• numbers;
• geometric figures;
• animals;
• transport;
• plants.

You can draw very different objects in this way, which means that the additional developmental element can be different. You can use graphic dictations to teach your child to read and count, to develop his speech and broaden his horizons.

First graphic dictation with a child: learn to teach

To make classes using this method one of your child’s favorite developmental elements, learn to present them correctly. It is worth noting that with the entry of a preschooler into the ranks of smart first-graders, graphic dictations will not only not lose their relevance, but, on the contrary, will definitely come in handy. In elementary school, children will have to do a lot of them, but this is mandatory and will be assessed. So, moms and dads, go for it: learn to teach your heirs, and then teach them to learn =)

How to properly conduct a lesson with a preschool child:

• Prepare everything you need: a squared sheet of paper, a pencil, an eraser (so that you can correct mistakes that are definitely unavoidable at first). You can come up with dictation tasks yourself, or you can buy special workbooks or download and print graphic dictations from the Internet.
• First, look at the task yourself. When you are sure that everything is clear to you, invite your child to play a new game.
• Make sure that the child sits correctly, with a straight back, and holds the pencil correctly. These points must be kept under control whenever you conduct educational activities for your preschooler at home.
• Remind where the right side is and where the left is. By the way, this moment can be used to tell your child about the existence of left-handers and right-handers. That both options are normal. That all children, all people are different. In general, work on socializing the baby - it will never be superfluous.
• Do a simple workout. Show what it means to draw two squares to the right. Let your child repeat after you. Make several of these outlines.
• Draw several straight lines on a checkered sheet of paper. different lengths in different directions (indicate the direction with an arrow). Discuss each line: how many cells it occupied, in what direction it was drawn, where it began.

Start small

It is not at all necessary to start graphic dictations by creating complex drawings. Moreover, it is not necessary to conduct them in the form of a dictation - i.e. completing a task from dictation. First, master the technique of drawing by cells, creating pictures according to the model, tracing the dotted lines, completing the pictures. Finding tasks is not a problem. You can draw them yourself.

So, draw a simple pattern with a thin line in your child’s notebook:

Let him first circle the drawn fragment, and then continue it to the end of the sheet.

Discuss how the pattern was created:

• 1 square down;
• 1 cell to the right;
• 1 square up;
• 1 cell to the right...

Now ask them to draw a picture according to the same pattern, but take two cells everywhere.

Vary different options for creating a similar pattern. For example, you can start moving from the starting point not downwards, but up or to the side.

From the simplest we smoothly move on to more complex tasks. For example, use these patterns:

Gradually complicate the tasks by selecting graphic dictations of the appropriate level of difficulty.

When your child reaches impressive heights in this activity, invite him to switch roles: let him create patterns or pictures, and then, cell by cell, dictate to you how to repeat his masterpiece. We do not know of a single case when such “shifters” did not cause genuine delight among boys and girls.

Homework

And now we invite you to do a small homework from Eureka. What picture is hidden behind these commands?

Start at a distance of 1 cell to the left, 6 from the top. There must be at least 5 cells down. Let's draw:

1. 1 square down
2. 3 cells to the right
3. 1 square down
4. 1 square to the right
5. 2 cells down
6. 1 cell left
7. 1 square down
8. 2 cells to the right
9. 1 square up
10. 1 square to the right
11. 1 square up
12. 2 cells to the right
13. 1 square down
14. 1 cell left
15. 1 square down
16. 3 cells to the right
17. 2 squares up
18. 1 square to the right
19. 4 squares up
20. 1 square to the right
21. 2 squares up
22. 1 cell left
23. 1 square down
24. 1 cell left
25. 1 square down
26. 6 cells left
27. 3 squares up
28. 1 cell left
29. 1 square down
30. 2 cells to the left
31. 3 cells down
32. 1 cell left

What happened? We are waiting for your answers and feedback in the comments.

Effective development and happy parenting to you! See you again!

Of a very different nature - construction sets, various electronic training books, puzzles, mosaics and much more. All of them help develop very important skills in the child - attention, perseverance, develop logic and thinking.

Today I want to offer you another one interesting view 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 in 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 quickly complete the task in order 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 the child develop very important skills - attentiveness, perseverance, coordination of movement, fine motor skills of the fingers.

How to conduct a lesson with graphic dictations

1. Print out the name of the picture you like, the dictation itself is written below (numbers with arrows). Just in case, let me 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 one square

2
- diagonal down and left two cells

2
- diagonal up and left by two cells

3
- diagonal up and to the right by two cells

2. There is a point in the picture - this is the starting point, the task must be completed from there.

3. The lesson itself can be carried out in two ways - you dictate the child’s moves, or he does it on his own, looking at the path (my son, 5 years old, does it himself, so as not to get confused, he circles the task he has done, then he himself completes some more did in the picture).

Good luck to you!

Download graphic dictation

House	Ship	Swan
horse	Typewriter	Deer