This section contains further information regarding Gross Motor Skills. It is divided into:
Gross Motor Skills Websites: For further information and resources
Further Reading: Downloadable PDFs
Gross Motor Skills Professional Development: Courses & Webinars
Talking to Students about Gross Motor Skills: Useful Books and Stories
Gross Motor Skills
The buttons for each website link you directly to them.
Understood.org contains a lot of useful information for parents and teachers on how to understand and support children with gross motor skills. The button will take you to a list of articles on gross motor skills.
Tools to Grow Therapy has a lot of useful free downloads on gross motor skills.
The OT Toolbox has a lot of articles about gross motor skills. The button above takes you directly to gross motor skills section.
Gross Motor Skills: Further Reading
Click on the top right corner to download PDFs.
Gross Motor Skills: Professional Development
Talking to Students about Gross Motor Skills
Some suggetsed books to get your students to develop their Gross Motor Skills
This rhythmic showcase of dances from all over the world features children of diverse backgrounds and abilities tapping, spinning, and boogying away. Tap, twirl, twist, spin! With musical, rhyming text, author Valerie Bolling shines a spotlight on dances from across the globe.
Kiwi sees a rope. He wants to pull it, but he cannot reach! What will happen next? Beginning readers can help Kiwi by turning the pages, shaking the book, and more in this interactive story.
Press the yellow dot on the cover of this interactive children's book, follow the instructions within, and embark upon a magical journey. Each page of this surprising touch book instructs the reader to push the button, shake it up, tilt the book, and who knows what will happen next.