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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