OT - Handwriting Resources For Teachers

Ways to encourage stability and control within hand –

• ·         games, projects, tasks that facilitate strong pincer grasp (legos, playdough, coloring, blocks)                                                                              
  
• ·         encourage a hand preference, and the other hand is an assist (holding, stabilizing)                 
  
• ·         paper taped to blackboard                                                                                                                           
  
• ·         lying on stomach on floor                                                                                                                                
  
• ·         using smaller pencils, broken pieces of crayon                                                                               
  
• ·         utilizing crayons, pencils, chalk on various textured and colored papers, writing on aluminum foil, brown paper ags, wax paper and chalkboards to increase kinesthetic  input
  

Ways to increase Visual Tracking –

• ·         Ball activities – tetherball, suspended ball and paper towel roll batting
  
• ·         Flashlight games – have child’s flashlight chase teachers, pictures taped up ‘find the --------‘
  
• ·         Playing catch while swinging
  
• ·         Bean bag toss games
  
• ·         Paper scanning games – find the hidden pictures, mazes