Description
Did you know that fine motor skills in preschool and kindergarten are the number one best predictor of academic skills and achievement for your kindergarten age student? (Cameron, et al.: 2012; Grissmer, David, et al.: 2010; Son & Meisels: 2006) This fine motor advantage lasts for at least through the third grade! (Taylor, 1999). Created by school-based Occupational Therapist, Thia Triggs, The Occupational Therapy Tools: Fine-Motor, Executive Functioning – Fall Theme digital download helps to:
◦ Build fundamental fine motor and executive functioning skills for kindergarten age kids.
◦ Target specific CCSS literacy and math skills in ways that interest and engage even the most reluctant children.
◦ Provide differentiated yet equivalent materials so you can easily provide the just-right level of difficulty and challenge for a classroom with diverse skills.
Details:
The 64 page PDF document will be available electronically immediately following payment.
Features:
■ Teacher’s Guide for each of the six units.
■ Occupational Therapy tips and tricks for explicit instruction, developmental sequence, and breaking tasks into their smallest steps so all children can learn.
■ Specific differentiation tools and support.
■ Specific objectives for fine motor, visual motor, and executive function skill development.
■ Detailed table of contents so you can easily find what you need at a moment’s notice.
■ No-prep, copy-and-use printables.
■ 61 pages.
Literacy Skill Practice:
☞ Matching, identifying, and labeling capital and lowercase letters.
☞ Left to right sequencing with gaze shift to the next row.
☞ Alphabet sequencing.
☞ Sight word matching.
☞ Sight word reading.
☞ Writing capital and lowercase letters, using go-dots to support conventional formations of starting at the top.
Math skill Practice:
☞ Matching, identifying, and labeling numbers: 1-15, 1-25, 1-40, 1-43.
☞ Sequencing numerals: 1-24.
☞ Writing numbers 1-25, with go dots to support conventional formations of starting at the top.
Fine Motor and Visual Motor Skill Practice:
☞ Develop both a dominant hand and a helper/ stabilizing hand.
☞ Coordinate both sides of the body.
☞ Use eye muscles to track lines.
☞ Use eyes to efficiently shift gaze between objects (two or more places).
☞ Coordinate vision and movement.
☞ Perceive shape and space by vision.
☞ Build hand strength adequate to maintain a pencil grasp, to push, and to adjust the necessary force.
☞ Use both proprioceptive and kinesthetic feedback to adjust and correct pressure and movement.
☞ Use specific cutting skills
Executive Functioning Skill Practice:
☞ Sustain attention
☞ Plan movement and sequences
☞ Implement cognitive flexibility in using a plan
☞ Use working memory
☞ Use self-control
These secular fall-themed worksheets are great for classroom literacy and math centers, morning work, special autumn party celebrations, and early finisher work. They are also perfect for occupational therapists to address a variety of fine motor, visual perceptual, and visual memory skills.
***** Customer Feedback *****
* Great activities. I used them in my OT sessions. Thanks for sharing.
* These have been really great, easy activities to pull out!
* Great resource and I love how it covers so many skills!
* Great variety of materials!
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Check out more resources created by Thia Triggs, OTR:
Functional Evaluation of Fine Motor Skills
Occupational Therapy Fine Motor Baselines
References:
Cameron, C. E., Brock, L. L., Murrah, W. M., Bell, L. H., Worzalla, S. L., Grissmer, D., & Morrison, F. J. (2012). Fine motor skills and executive function both contribute to kindergarten achievement. Child development, 83(4), 1229-1244.
Grissmer, D., Grimm, K. J., Aiyer, S. M., Murrah, W. M., & Steele, J. S. (2010). Fine motor skills and early comprehension of the world: two new school readiness indicators. Developmental psychology, 46(5), 1008.
Son, S. H., & Meisels, S. J. (2006). The relationship of young children’s motor skills to later reading and math achievement. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly (1982-), 755-778.
Taylor, M. K. (1999). Relationship between visual motor integration skill and academic performance in kindergarten through third grade. Optometry and vision science: official publication of the American Academy of Optometry, 76(3), 159-163.