Give your child an opportunity to trace letters in a variety of mediums. Not only will it help to imbed the motion in their brain, it will be fun! Here are some ideas that you can use: Similar to many of the activities you can find for practicing spelling words, your child can practicing...
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Handwriting
ABC Tracing Activities
Lined Paper for Handwriting
The Sizes of Lined Paper on YouTube It takes lots of repetition to embed in the brain the correct way to hold a pencil and how to make the shapes for each letter with ease. So let your child have lots of practice writing anything he would like, for instance: making lists of things he...
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Conventional Writing
Sometimes it’s easy to tell that a child is ready to learn to write because she can easily pick up Cheerios using her thumb and index fingers or she can build with things like Lego’s with ease. Or she might walk around with a note pad and pencil jotting down “notes” to herself like she...
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Pre-Writing
Just like you must crawl before you walk, scribbling before writing is the natural order of progression. The benefits of scribbling is that it strengths the finger muscles which will help develop the fine motor skills in your child’s hand when holding a pencil, will increase her confidence and shows your daughter’s intention to communicate...
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Using Play Dough to Practice Spelling Words
This is an easy way for your child to practice spelling words and it is also great for fine motor development. You’ll Need: a copy of the words to learn a sheet protector play dough (recipe follows) One way to practice is by placing one spelling word (written on 81/2 x 11 paper) inside...
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