Play activities to stimulate the development of written expression in children of sub-initial level 2

Abstract

Introduction: Writing is a fundamental process of learning, to guarantee its development it is necessary to stimulate its maturity from the initial stage of education. Objective: To develop a guide of ludic activities to stimulate the development of written expression in children of sub-school level 2 of the "Blanca Cuadros de Zambrano" school in Manabí-Ecuador. Materials and Methods: The research was descriptive with a mixed approach, within the theoretical methods the analytic-synthetic was used, the empirical methods were observation and interview, in the mathematical methods the referential statistics was used and for the validation with Cronbach's Alpha method. Results: The results of the diagnosis showed weaknesses in the development of fine motor skills, which triggered that the writing process is affected. The participants of this study were 29 4-year-old children and 2 Early Childhood Education teachers. Conclusions: To mitigate the problem, a Guide of ludic activities is proposed that tends to strengthen the development of written expression in children, it should be noted that this proposal was validated by specialists resulting in a score of 0.940085, which established a very high index of consistency and reliability.