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WritingReadiness

- a stage in a childs early life where hedisplays sign of wanting to put histhoughts or ideas into visual forms.

- the developmental of psycho-motorskills required to prepare the studentto perform the physical act of writing.

Visualforms

doodles, squiggles,crooked lines or even

drawings of stick

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doodles SquigglesStick

!igure

drawing

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crooked line

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Representations of achild"s#

$nowledge- a realisation that he can put his

thoughts into words which greatlyincreases his growing knowledge ofthe world around him

%nterest- beginning to discover the interesting

fact that writing is another form ofcommunication

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Visual readiness- beginning to recognise shapes and

numbers as well as distinguish lettersin the alphabet

Visual memor&- beginning to recognise one or two

syllabble words. (eg: cat, rabbit)

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tor and coordination skills-

beginning to display a dominatwriting hand. (eg: being left and right handed)- motor coordination of the hand, wrist,

elbow and shoulder when writing

- displaying eye and hand coordination

skills

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'ctivities (uilding ne motorskills and e&e or hand

coordination#)olouring-

helps children discriminate shapesting, pasting, tracing and draw

- help develop ne muscles

icking up small o(*ects- help develop nger muscle strength

and control

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ing activities involving shapesal discrimination and pattern

ing- good for nger-hand control, visual

discrimination and perception ofshape

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Mechanics

- !he pencil is pinched

between the thumbpad and the inde"nger pad. !he pencil

rests on the middlenger. #an holdsomething in last $

ngers.

ow to hold the pencil

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Pinch and ip#%. lace pencil on table

pointing away fromyou.

$. inch pencil and pick it

up. inch the pencilwhere you should holdit-on the point wherethe point meets thewood.

+. ith other hand holdthe eraser and ip itaround to the top side

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Penmanship

- /t is crucial that children are taughtthe skills of penmanship despite thefact, that computer-printeddocuments have greatly reduced theneed for handwritten work.

- is the technique of writing with thehand using a writing instrument.

(e.g: pencil, pen, crayon, brush)

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0ew technology had de nitelyreplaced the

need for as much handwritten work,so

handwriting has su1ered. 2owever,there will

always be a need for a certain

amount ofhandwritten work, such as writing

essays during

e"aminations, lling in forms or taking

im 'le"ander, *istrict 3ducation4uperintendent

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5etter formation often is the root ofstudents

handwriting problems. !hey start atthe wrong

place. 6or e"ample, when you write

an 7e8 youshould start at the middle instead of

at the

bottom. 9ou start at the middle thengo up,around and down. /f you have correct

letterformation, our writin is more

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.hank /ou