Patterning for Handwriting

Patterning

Part of having good handwriting skills is the ability to control your wrist position, fingers, placement of paper, and basically good fine motor development.  You never realise that handwriting skills is something challenging and more so for Zack since he is also left-handed.  Drawing patterns like this help to finetune his handwriting skills.

Here is a sample of what he did for homework recently.  I left him to do it on his own and the result is actually quite encouraging.  He got some of the concepts but still there is room for improvement.  I believe if I had guided his hand, it would have been a better outcome, but then again, I wanted to know what he could do so I could address the issues with his OT therapists.

I also think that the squares on this piece of paper didn’t help much, so I have to look for smaller squared paper, as it should help him focus better.   Great job Zack!