The ability to produce fluent, legible handwriting with ease is something that affects attainment in most areas of the curriculum, yet many children continue to struggle with this vital skill. Based on holistic principles, this programme offers a different approach, developing the muscles of the hand - so that children gain the necessary control to produce letter forms - alongside the perceptual skills required to orientate and organize letter and words. The programme is effective for mainstream children aged 4-6 years, children with developmental co-ordination disorders and older children with mild to moderate learning difficulties. Over 400 carefuly graded exercises and activities develop hand-eye co-ordination, form constancy, spatial organization, figure-ground discrimination, orientation and laterality. The package consists of two pupil workbooks and a teacher's handbook.
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This programme comes with two books and a teacher's manual. I have started my 5-year-old and 3-year-old off with the first one, and my 7-year-old with the second. They all enjoy doing it because instead of endless formation of letters, this handwriting programme focusses on pen control through various drawing lessons.
The first book starts off simply with following dotted lines around circles, triangles, and squares, of different sizes, sometimes on the inside of them, sometimes on the outside of them.
The second book starts off with tiny little circles which the child puts dots inside, and then moves up to joining them, first only three or four, and then whole pages of dots.
There are some exercises within the workbooks that deal with letter formation, but most of it is a spatial, geometric way of controlling the pen.
I highly recommend it as a handwriting programme, because the children like doing it -- which is more than I can say about other programmes I've tried.
The first book starts off simply with following dotted lines around circles, triangles, and squares, of different sizes, sometimes on the inside of them, sometimes on the outside of them.
The second book starts off with tiny little circles which the child puts dots inside, and then moves up to joining them, first only three or four, and then whole pages of dots.
There are some exercises within the workbooks that deal with letter formation, but most of it is a spatial, geometric way of controlling the pen.
I highly recommend it as a handwriting programme, because the children like doing it -- which is more than I can say about other programmes I've tried.
31 of 31 people found the following review helpful
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I have been using the exercises in this book for 6 weeks. The improvement in my son's writing has been really amazing. The best part is that my son has actually enjoyed it.
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This pack comes with 2 children's books and a teacher/ parent handbook. I bought it for a boy in my class with an autistic spectrum disorder, who finds it very difficult to hold his pencil and maintain grip whilst writing. After 4 weeks I am already beginning to see an improvement thanks to the activities. A brilliant pack and worth the money.
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love it
The books are so well laid out my 4 year old son with motorskill problem,brain damage and learning delays loves doing his paperwork as he calls it
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Ordered theese for a few children in my year 3 class (age 7/8) with real difficulties writing. They are really enjoying the activities and after a couple of weeks I am allready... Read more
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My 5 year old started with Book 1 at Christmas and what a difference I have noticed already! She has better pencil grip and control and remembers to use her other hand to hold the... Read more
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good for practise
Found this to be a great little book for practising holding and using a pencil. Have autistic 6 year old who got to grips with this quickly.
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This is a great product. To start with I thought it was a bit expensive, but once I had it, I could see that it was well worth the money. Read more
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I bought this programme for my 8 year old Son who has DCD as it was being used by his Private OT. It is a wonderful programme which helped him tremendously. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Jackie Farrell
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I brought this for son who is 8.5 with DAMP and dysprixa. I started book 1 at the start of the holiday (end of July) and have already completed it 15 Min's a day(3rd week of Aug). Read more
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This programme was recommended to me by the SENCO who works with one of my children. It is a programme that aims to improve handwriting by completing a two volume programme of... Read more
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