Pre-writing Practice Activity Pages

Your child’s preschool is sending home worksheets where they child traced their name or numbers. But you can tell this wasn’t easy or the work is very sloppy and all over the place. Did you know that before learning to write letters children need to learn to draw the shapes. Learning letters first often creates bad writing habits that are hard to unlearn AND actually impedes fluid writing.

Pre-writing practice is the 9 pre-writing shapes children need to learn FIRST to be efficient writers and provides the instruction on how to make these shapes. The Pre-Writing Practice Activity Pages shows the child where to start and stop – it’s the foundation of letter formation. Besides, the brain is typically not ready to learn letters until AFTER a child’s 5^th birthday. Which is when letters are should be introduced. 

Ages: 4 and up

The Pre-Writing Practice Activity is 19 pages and offered in both landscape and portrait layout to offer a variety of options on how to use the sheets. An instruction guide is included with several ideas.

Grab this activity if you want your child to build…

• Eye-hand coordination: This is the ability to know where to start making the strokes and putting the crayon on the correct spot
• Fine motor skills: Drawing within the given lines develops pencil control
• Gross motor skill: Writing requires good trunk control and the ability to sit upright for a period of time
• Sensory motor skills: This is knowing how much to bear down on the pencil

This is a digital download that can be printed and used as many times as needed. This activity will help your child develop a foundation for handwriting, eye-hand coordination, fine motor skills, gross motor skills, and sensory motor skills.