Working on these early writing strokes is so important for developing good handwriting skills. Above you will see a chart of when children typically develop these skills. Practice each figure with your child to see where they are at in developing these skills. If they are them all, they are ready for working on handwriting skills!
If you are noticing some shapes are not accurate yet, that is ok! Let's work on it together!
Start with the shapes they are able to complete as a warm up and then progress to the shapes they are working on. This gives them success first which motivates them to push their skills! Try to practice a shape at least 4 times to get repetition of the specific shape they are needing to work on. This does not have to be a long time of practice, just do a little bit a few times a week and the progress will happen!
You can work on these strokes is SO many ways:
Have fun and be creative in how you work on these skills! The more you add play to the work of making them, the faster and stronger the pre-writing skills will develop!
If you have any questions or need resources/ideas, contact your OT via email by clicking the button below and locating your students OT. If you do not know who the OT is, send a contact to any of the OT staff and we will get your questions to the right person!
If you are noticing some shapes are not accurate yet, that is ok! Let's work on it together!
Start with the shapes they are able to complete as a warm up and then progress to the shapes they are working on. This gives them success first which motivates them to push their skills! Try to practice a shape at least 4 times to get repetition of the specific shape they are needing to work on. This does not have to be a long time of practice, just do a little bit a few times a week and the progress will happen!
You can work on these strokes is SO many ways:
- building with playdoh
- writing in shaving cream
- drawing in salt in a cooking pan
- drawing in mud with a stick
- drawing in sand
- building with legos, sticks, popsickle sticks, pipe cleaners, small pieces of paper or tissue paper, or stickers
- drawing in playdoh
- drawing with markers, crayons, or pencils
- making a shape multiple times using different colors to make rainbow shapes
- drawing meaningful pictures (people, house, car, etc) using these shapes
Have fun and be creative in how you work on these skills! The more you add play to the work of making them, the faster and stronger the pre-writing skills will develop!
If you have any questions or need resources/ideas, contact your OT via email by clicking the button below and locating your students OT. If you do not know who the OT is, send a contact to any of the OT staff and we will get your questions to the right person!