Description
These prewriting worksheets for preschoolers are ideal for preschool, kindergarten, and older students with fine motor delays.
- OT designed to facilitate top to bottom and left to right formation, which supports handwriting as well as reading
- Tracing lines are wide to ensure success for students with coordination difficulties
- Arrows are used to prompt students to use proper formation
- Engaging graphics to support student interest
Packet has 18 worksheets and includes:
- Tracing vertical lines to put bars on zoo animal cages
- Tracing horizontal and vertical lines to create a cage for a tiger
- Tracing horizontal lines to connect fish to fishbowl
- Drawing lines to match cute shapes
- Color by number
- Cutting and matching shapes (color and cut activity)
- Following directions to draw a snowman
- Tracing and drawing prewriting shapes (shapes needed to be mastered prior to being able to write letters)
- Mazes to work on pencil control
Students improve handwriting skills when they practice activities involving moving eyes and hands from top to bottom and left to right. Proper letter formation involves starting letters at the top then going down to the baseline. These worksheets provide the practice needed to develop the motor memory for writing.
Reading skills also involve moving the eyes left to right. Students will practice these skills as they draw from one image to another on horizontal line practice sheets as well as when tracing and copying shapes.
Fine motor skills are improved by filling in the small areas of the images, as well as completing the mazes. Pencil control is an important underlying skill for handwriting success and staying within the lines of a maze contributes to improved pencil control.
Preschoolers will enjoy these activities with the fun graphics, as will older students. They can be used in individual occupational therapy sessions or as a whole group lesson. The graphics used are not childish, so older elementary students who need fine motor skill practice will be able to use these worksheets.
