However, in small doses, IPADS and Tablets can be a great learning tool. Here is a great article by Charlotte Smarty pants called “Why Kindergarten Teachers Want Your Child to Step Away from the IPAD”. *Screen time should be limited for children. You can even put a pencil grip on a stylus to help those fingers sit in the right spots. But please make sure they are holding it correctly.
It’s a good idea to give your kid a stylus, so they get used to using a tool to write. Here are 10 Occupational Therapist approved apps that you can use to help your little one learn to write their letters properly.
Scroll down and click on that app.ġ0 Apps to Help Your Child Practice Grasp and Writing *If the app does have that option, it’d be in your settings page. Most apps have options where you can limit the letters that your kid learns so they learn just a few, or just the letters in their name, etc. There are a lot of great apps for teaching letter formation on the IPAD. I also mentioned the IPAD, which my friend thought her daughter would love.
Occupational Therapists and handwriting specialists teach the letters according to letter formation.
Cursive words app how to#
It provides an outline of how letters formations can be grouped to make learning how to write easier.)
Cursive words app free#
(You can learn more about this in my Free Handwriting Email Course. Plus, I really don’t think kids learn to write a letter unless they learn the letters in groups by letter formation. Point blank – it’s just not developmentally appropriate. The curriculum doesn’t account for the children entering kindergarten who did not go to preschool or may not have the fine motor skills to write pages of letters at a time. I’m not sure if that made her feel better, but I do feel that it’s the truth. If a child learns their letters correctly it is so much easier for them to write neatly. It’s difficult for kids to learn it and to write comfortably at this rushed pace. Many teachers teach one letter a day in two forms (capital and uppercase), so the kids don’t really develop the motor memory. You have the chance to make sure she learns all her letters correctly before she starts Kindergarten.There will be other children in her class who don’t know their letters, and the teacher won’t be able to really sit with them one on one to make sure they get it. I felt empathetic towards my friend who just wants to play with her little girl at night, rather than drilling her to finish a worksheet. Preschools are bowing to the pressure and teaching what used to be the kindergarten curriculum. Little kids are expected to be able to write upon entering kindergarten. Developmentally, preschoolers are still preschoolers, but kindergarten curriculum expectations have increased tremendously. It’s too much for those little hands.īut – an educator who spends two days a week in kindergarten, I have to say, this is where the curriculum is going. No, as an OT, I don’t believe that a four-year-old should be practicing a page of letters for twenty minutes a night. As I walked into school the other day, a friend of mine grabbed me in a panic and said “Should my four-year-old really be practicing a page of letters every night?! This is the only time I get to spend with her and I’m forcing her to write a whole page of D’s! This stinks!”
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