T Levels PO1 Desk task: 27.01.2025

What is the term used to describe the marks that children in their early years make on paper and is the first steps towards learning to write?

• Mark making

• Drawing

• Writing

• Scribbling

What type of mark making is often dismissed as scribble, but is actually an important step in learning to write, because children are trying out new things to see what happens?

• Making patterns with spilt food and drinks

• Making prints with stamps or stencils

• Making big circular and straight lines with thick crayons

• Making rubbings with crayons and leaves

Within the EYFS Birth to Five what age range is this statement taken from that links to literacy?

"Enjoys the sensory experience of making marks".

• Ranges 1-2

• Range 3

• Range 4

• Range 5

What is the first word that most children learn to write, partly because it has huge meaning for them and also because adults tend to point out and write it?

• Mam

• Dad

• Hello

• Their own name

What type of motor control do children need to strengthen for writing, which involves using small muscles in the hands and fingers?

• Fine motor skills

• Gross motor skills

• Hand-eye coordination

• Physical skills

What type of conversations do children need to try, which involve responding to what the child says or does with something that extends their thinking or language?

• Ping pong conversations

• Serve and return conversations

• Back and forward conversations

• Tennis ball conversations

Within the EYFS what age range is this statement taken from?

"Distinguishes between the different marks they make"?

(a)  

Which of these methods are not an example of mark making in early years?

• • Using a stick to make marks in mud or sand.

• Using water and paintbrushes on a dry wall outside.

• Looking at a surface or an object.

• Using chalks on the ground outside.

Which of these materials could you use to make marks in early years (you may select more than one answer)

• Feathers, leaves and sticks

• Pens, pencils and crayons

• Carrots, cucumber and potatoes

• Pipe cleaners and cotton wool

• All of these materials and more.

What writing is the term used to describe the first steps a child takes towards writing.

(a)