Just Starting Out With Writing? Here's Where to Begin.
Hi, I'm Niz. I teach young children, and I have been focusing on developing their early literacy.
If your child is at the stage of just picking up crayons and pencils, you would need a few simple activities to build the hand strength writing takes. Here's a free guide with 30 of them, plus a quick way to check exactly where your child's at.
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I'll send the guide straight over, along with the occasional useful resources to support your child's learing journey.
A little something to start with
My Ready to Write guide, yours to keep.
Or, are you wondering which stage of writing is your child at?
Getting ready to write happens in four stages, and your child moves through them in their own time. Here is what each one looks like, so you can see where your child is right now.
Stage 1: Strong Hands
Small hands need strength before they can steer a pencil. All the squeezing, pinching and pulling your child already loves is what quietly builds it, and it is the happiest place to begin.
Stage 2: Steady Control
Once the strength is there, your child works on control. Threading beads, pouring water, posting things through a slot: all of it grows the careful movements a pencil needs.
Stage 3: Ready for Strokes
Hands are strong and steady, so now comes the fun part. Your child practises the lines, circles and crosses that letters are made of, in a salt tray, in the air, on paper.
Stage 4: Ready for Letters
Strong hands, steady control, confident strokes. The next happy step is turning them into first letters, starting with the ones in your child's own name.
Not Sure Which Stage Your Child's At?
I got a simple one-minute quiz to help you find that out.
I've taught young children for years, and I hope to extend the resources and techniques I had developed to like-minded parents like you. Being able to be actively involved in child's learning is important, and I'm so glad you're here.