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Pocket of Preschool: Favorite Fine Motor Tools and Toys for Preschool

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Fine motor skills take practice but it can be FUN. Students may not get the time they need to perfect this skill, so let's make sure they have the opportunity to improve with the help of some toys, tools, and games through PLAY.
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Pbs: Lace Cards to Strengthen Fine Motor Skills

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Get little wrists and fingers ready for writing with this fun activity! Lacing cards help children perfect their pincer grip, which is necessary to hold a pencil properly.
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Kid Sense: Strength and Endurance

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Strength and endurance are important to enable children to perform every day functions such as fine motor skills, gross motor skills, playground skills, and sporting skills. This article explains how to tell if your child has problems...
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Basic Handwriting for Kids: Manuscript

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Great place to go for help teaching basic manuscript writing skills. Printable resources available include blank lined paper of various sizes, alphabet and number tracing guides, "make your own" traceable worksheets, and more. There's...
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Empowered Parents: 19 Kids' Activities & Games to Improve Hand Eye Coordination

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Eye-hand coordination is an important gross motor skill children develop during the early years. Find out what it is, why it is important to develop and how you can help your children build their coordination with simple games and...
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Class Flow: Handwriting Exercises

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This series of pages is designed for students to practice the fine and large motor skills to prepare for cursive writing. Occupational therapists say that working on a vertical surface is optimal for...
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Chateau Meddybemp's Parent's Guide: Write

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The author defines 11 steps children go through as they learn to write well, and provides suggestions of activities parents can do with their children to encourage the development of each of these skills.
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Pbs Learning Media: Clifford El Gran Perro Colorado: Tesoros Enterrados

For Students Pre-K - K
En "Barbaroja, el Pirata", Tucker pierde su querido Lil' Squeakie luego de que sus amigos pasaran el dia enterrando tesoros en la arena. Clifford y Emily Elizabeth hacen su mision el encontrar el juguete tesoro de Tucker antes de la hora...
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Pbs Learning Media: Clifford El Gran Perro Colorado: Grande O Pequeno? Lo Podemos Clasificar Todo!

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
Encuentre lo que es similar y lo que es diferente mientras exploran objetos.
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Pbs Learning Media: Clifford El Gran Perro Colorado: Vamos Hacer Musica!

For Students Pre-K - K
Exploremos la musica en casa y en clase con instrumentos hechos en casa.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Hinges I, Hinges Ii

For Teachers K
In this lesson, literacy-based cards will spur participation as students use small motor skills, personal space, and boundary awareness. Color cards and number cards will also be used to cue the children to move in specific ways.
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Free Reading: Letter Writing Activities

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This invaluable site helps instructors teach students how to handwrite each letter of the alphabet. It includes the amsti sequence to introduce letters, followed by fluency-building activities and accuracy-building activities. Additional...
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Teachnology: A Variety of Printable Handwriting Worksheets

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Use this resource to print activities and worksheets for handwriting.
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Can Teach: Line Drawing Obstacle Course

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Practice important fine motor skills by having students control their pencil, following a line. Teacher lesson plan for K-1st.
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California State University

Animals in the Landscape Mural

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A simple introductory lesson for kindergarteners on constructing murals. They will fine tune their motor skills as they draw and cut animals from paper to create a class farm.
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The Royal Children's Hospital: Hand and Finger Strength

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Hand and finger strength is important as it is required for many everyday activities. It also helps to develop the endurance to complete activities such as writing a full page. Here are a variety of strategies to strengthen grip and...
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Spinner's Writing Guide

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Watch Spinner the Spider draw the letters of the alphabet, both upper and lower case.
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A to Z Teacher Stuff: Beginning Handwriting (Activity)

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This is a handwriting activity for first graders. The students learn the importance of their name and learn to properly write their name in a fun activity.
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Scholastic: Make a Picture Dictionary

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Children will create a picture dictionary to encourage the development of letter-sound recognition and fine-motor and creative-thinking skills, and increase their awareness about informational text.

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