Prewriting eBook

61 printable prewriting pages for toddlers, preschool and pre-K. Children trace straight lines, slants, zigzags, circles, curves, spirals and shapes, then build scissor skills step by step and try coded tracing. Includes a parent guide, a shapes-by-age chart and a progress tracker.

What is prewriting?

Prewriting is everything a child practices before writing letters: lines, circles, curves and simple shapes. Almost every letter and number is made from these strokes. A child who can draw a vertical line, a circle and a slant is ready for letters like l, o and v. This workbook follows the order children usually learn these strokes, from a simple vertical line to a triangle, so your child is always working at the right level.

What's included

• Getting Started: What Is Prewriting? (finger, crayon, then pencil) and a Prewriting Shapes by Age chart with pencil grip stages
• Straight Lines: flowers, balloons, kites, ladybugs, benches, cars, rockets, buildings and cross-line gifts
• Slants and Zigzags: rain, kites, slides, skateboards, ice cream cones, snail trails, mountains and X marks the spot
• Circles and Curves: bubbles, wheels, planets, clocks, pizzas, watermelons, tulips, waves, rainbows, teapots, balls, fruit, fish, flowers and spiral snails
• Shapes: square picture frames, triangle tents, and a trace, trace, try it page for the cross, square, X, triangle and circle
• Scissor Skills: a 7-step cutting progression with a Getting Ready to Cut guide, snip the fringe, straight, curvy and zigzag lines, shapes, a snail spiral, and cut and glue a house
• Code and Draw: color changing bee, rainbow shapes, coded pattern tracing, prewriting and coding, raindrops, build a roof and fish patterns
• Practice and Review: all the shapes, 2 pattern strip pages and a My Prewriting Progress tracker
• How to Use guide and contents page

Why parents and teachers love it

• The right order: follows how children learn to draw lines and shapes, step by step
• Includes the tricky shapes: cross, X, square and triangle pages, plus fading practice to draw them independently
• Builds hand strength: tracing, coloring and a full cutting progression prepare little hands to write
• Low prep: print and go, or laminate pages and use a dry-erase marker again and again
• Great for toddlers, preschool and pre-K, homeschool, morning work, centers, OT practice and quiet time

Details

• Ages 2 to 5 (Toddler to Pre-K)
• 61 pages, instant digital download (PDF), US Letter size
• This is a digital product. No physical item will be shipped.
• For personal or single-classroom use.

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