Drawing Lines with Hearts & Penguins

Description

Prewriting skills are the foundational skills that a child must master before being ready or able to learn how to form letters or numbers. No matter your student/child’s age, start where they are now and continue to move forward with each successful mastery. The typical developmental sequence of drawing/forming prewriting lines & shapes is as follows:

1. Vertical Lines by 2 years of age
2. Horizontal Lines by 2.5 years of age
3. Circles by 3 years of age
4. Crosses by 3.5 – 4 years of age
5. Squares by 4 years of age
6. Diagonal Lines by 4.5 years of age
7. X’s by 5 years of age

This product includes 11 worksheets that address the following skills:

• jumping, aiming, and scribbling to a given area
• drawing short, medium, and long vertical lines
• drawing short, medium, and long horizontal lines

Each of these pages include varying amounts of visual cues, depending on your child(ren)’s needs, as well as their progression.

As a school-based occupational therapist, I provide a list of drawing tips at the beginning of the prewriting packet to ensure the child you work with develops a correct pencil grasp and proper positioning habits that will support the development of their visual motor skills, hand strength, and writing stamina.

This 11-page packet features a heart & penguin theme. In my experience in working with preschoolers, their worksheets must be engaging in order to optimize their attention to a given task. When working with preschoolers, I enjoyed regularly making new worksheets according to the given season/holiday – and now I’m sharing what I learned with you! I hope that you have as much fun with them as I have!

ENJOY! Please provide me with your feedback.