Pre Writing Shapes and Lines Freebie
Are you working on pre writing shapes and lines with your younger students or children? This freebie includes two worksheets to encourage pre writing strokes . You can download it for free at the bottom of the post. This freebie is from the complete Fading Lines and Shapes Worksheets packet.
How Does the FREE Pre Writing Shapes and Lines Practice Pages Work?
All you need to do is follow these three steps to access the worksheets.
- Sign up to receive the weekly email newsletters and announcements from Your Therapy Source.
- You will be redirected to the download page where you can print the pre writing shapes and lines freebie.
- Your students can practice writing horizontal lines and circles using fading prompts.
Using fading prompts is a motor learning strategy to encourage independence in children. They learn the skill with extra prompts to start, and then those clues or hints slowly fade away so the children can do the skill on their own.
When Is a Good Time to Use the Free Worksheet Pages?
You can use these freebie pages for:
- pre writing practice
- occupational therapy sessions
- carry over activities for at home
Other Ways to Use the Pre Writing Shapes and Lines Freebie
You can modify this activity. If you are providing a telehealth session or distance learning, your students can open the PDF and mark it up using a Google Chrome extension like Kami.
For your students who are just learning how to make marks on paper, try using watercolors instead of pencils to practice shape and line formation. It adds novelty to the task and decreased the pressure of having to write exactly on the lines. This provides the students with the experience of writing in different directions.
What Skills Are You Working On with this Activity?
This pre writing shapes and lines activity is working on the following skills:
- pre writing skills
- visual motor skills
- visual spatial skills
- shape identification
- visual discrimination skills
These are all super important skills for later academic success.
Want More Activities Like This One?
This freebie is from the complete Fading Lines and Shapes Worksheets Packet. This packet includes practice pages that gradually increase in visual motor difficulty while decreasing visual input for line and shape formation. There are 18 worksheets for line formations ie horizontal, vertical, curves, waves, diagonals, spikes and combinations. There are 9 worksheets for shape formations ie circle, cross, square, rectangle, X, triangle, diamond, oval and heart.
Download Your FREE Copy Here
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