Handwriting Tools

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/positioning in a chair, gross motor skills for producing the larger movements, fine motor skills for producing the smaller movements and coordinate them successfully to write letters, cognitive skills to remember what letters 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 learn and school. The earlier intervention for handwriting is completed the more successful developmental milestones can be met for the task of handwriting. Handwriting requires something we all dread: practice...practice...and yes, more practice!

Take a peek at the sites below by clicking on the heading to get to the link and find ways to practice and implement pre-writing skills into everyday routines at school and at home!