Description
This resource is designed to prepare children for letter formation.
Throughout the early years, children are encouraged to participate in a range of fine-motor activities that develop:
– manipulative skills
– a dominant hand
– the ability to use both hands together
– New Wave Pre-writing patterns aids the smooth transition to writing alphabet letters.
– Written by occupational therapists, this activity book presents a systematic and fun approach for teaching the foundation skills.
Each new pattern is introduced in three steps:
1. Learn the new pattern as a big body movement. At this initial stage it is essential that the oral prompting clues are also established.
2. Use art activities to practise the new movement, in big and small ways, to form a memory for making pre-writing patterns.
3. Consolidate the new movement and pattern through pre-writing pattern activity sheets.
