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Children Pre-Writing SKills

1. Children’s Pre-Writing Skills

By: Heather Nowak

2. Pre-Writing Skills
> Hands:

Writing requires strength and dexterity in our hands.
Strength and dexterity depend on how we use the small
muscles in our hands.

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3. Pre-Writing Skills
> Forearms:

» Children need to develop the muscles in their forearms to
provide strength and stability

» Children must coordinate and use both the hand and
forearm muscles to do things such as holding and using
a pencil, using scissors, handling coins and using various
utensils for eating.

4. Pre-Writing Skills

> Fingers:

The thumb, index and middle fingers carry out the skilled
movements in writing and other intricate activities, while
the ring and baby fingers provide stability and increase
strength.

5. Pre-Writing Skills
> Brain:

Hand-eye coordination and sensory input are necessary
in the writing process.

The brain must coordinate sensations with what we see
so that we can make small changes for precise
coordination and muscle control.

6. Developing Hand & Finger Skills

» Change how activities are done to encourage
finger use

» Lace large beads with strings
> Play with finger puppets and spinning tops.

» Twist caps onto small bottles or tubes of
toothpaste with one hand

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7. Developing Hand-Eye Coordination
and Sensory Input

» Draw and scribble
» Roll, throw and catch large-sized balls

> Hide pennies, beads or other small objects in
Play-Doh, sand or rice tubs for your child to find.

» Draw shapes and lines on sandpaper or carpet
squares.

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8. Other Pre-Writing Activities

» Make lines, shapes and letters
by finger painting or
painting with shaving cream

» Play shape and letter
matching or recognition games.

9. Stages of Pre-Writing Skill
Development
» Stage 1 (1 year old)

Crinkles paper

Bangs crayons or other writing utensils on paper

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10. Stages of Pre-Writing Skill
Development
» Stage 2 (1-2 years old)
Randomly scribbles
Spontaneously scribbles
in vertical/horizontal

or circular directions

Paint with whole arm movements

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11. Stages of Pre-Writing Skill
Development
» Stage 3 (2-3 years old)

Imitates a horizontal line
> Imitates a vertical line
» Imitates a circle
. Holds crayon with thumb and fingers instead of fist
> Paint with wrist action, rather than whole arm
movements

12. Stages of Pre-Writing Skill
Development
» Stage 4 (3-4 years old)

Imitates a cross
Imitates a right/left diagonal

Imitates a square

put lines together to draw people =< —

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13. Stages of Pre-Writing Skill
Development

» Stage 5 (4-5 years old)
Traces a line
Imitates a triangle
Imitates an X
Grasps pencil in writing position
color within the lines of the
picture
Print a few capital letters
practice writing first name

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14. Stages of Pre-Writing Skill
Development
» Stage 6 (5-6 years old)

- demonstrate how simple shapes >
can be put together to make
drawings of people, animals
and objects

- by age 6, most children have
mastered the basic
strokes needed to form
letters and numbers

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15. Sources
http://www.therapystreetforkids.com/PreWritingSkills.htn
http://yourcharlotteschools.net/documents/students/Han

http://www.caot.ca/default.asp?pageid=37 1 1

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