Drawing plays an important role in the development of literacy, and writing at a young age should be seen as “symbol-weaving”- indicating that the fabric of writing is woven together through talking, drawing, and a small amount of writing. Children are not all the same, and each child utilizes these three aspects of literacy in different ways. They all formulate a different pattern of literacy using the same resources. The question Newkirk sought to answer was “why?”. Parents are an important piece of the puzzle to consider. The way a parent teaches their child to label an object influences the child’s perspective of the object. A child’s own propensity to label objects in abstract or concrete methods also shapes the way they draw the object,
