Handwriting involves a variety of skills and motor abilities to be able to successfully learn appropriate letter formation, spacing, and placement of letters. It requires proper posture in a chair, gross motor skills for producing larger movements, fine motor skills for producing the smaller movements and coordinate them successfully to write letters, cognitive skills to remember what the look like and process which letter comes next, visual motor skills for seeing a letter and being able to copy the strokes to form it correctly, and many more skills. This is why handwriting is such a difficult but vital task to teach and learn. The earlier intervention for handwriting is initiated, the more successful developmental milestones can be met for writing.
Take a peek at the sites below by clicking on the heading to get to the link and find ways to implement and practice pre-writing skills into everyday routines at school and at home.
Hand-eye coordination, visual-motor, visual perceptual skills
Vision activities
Adaptive Writing Paper- Free & Printable
Print free adaptive writing paper for students/kids to use to organize their writing
Different sizes, combined picture and writing sheets, start/stop sheets
Development of Proper Pencil Grip
Describes the developmental sequence of pencil grip in toddlers
Pictures to demonstrate proper grip
Crocodile Snap Pencil Grip Song
Catchy song for pencil grip
Includes exercises for finger isolation and in-hand manipulation skills
Handwriting Without Tears Pencil Pick Up Song
Catchy song for teaching a child how to pick up their pencil