Visual Arts - NCCA

Strand: Drawing Theme: Exploring and
experimenting with drawing tools
and with mark-making
Information
A unit of work for students at the early scribbling stage
The student should be enabled to
• see the cause and effect of mark-making
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Guidelines Mild General learning disabilities / Visual Arts / PRIMARY
Level: 1
become more aware of line, shape, texture, and pattern in his/her drawings
make a variety of marks, such as dots, lines, dashes
explore and experiment with a variety of drawing tools
use these drawing tools on a range of surfaces.
Stimulus Language
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Exemplar 1: Visual Arts
Different drawing tools are presented to the
student.
The teacher discusses the different marks that can
be made and the different types of lines that can
be produced, for example wavy, straight, dotted,
zig-zag, thick, thin.
The students look for, talk about, and name the
lines that they can find in the classroom, in the
school, in the outdoor environment, etc. There are
lines everywhere, on the tiled floor, the window
frames, the table edges, the edge of a press, in
plants in the garden, on the barks of trees, etc.
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Drawing—naming different drawing tools, such as
pencils, crayons, markers, chalk pastels, charcoal,
etc.
Movement—up/down/around
Words that describe line—swirly/wiggly/dotted/
straight/rounded/ziz-zag/curved/wavy
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