New Wave Pre-Writing Patterns

Preparing children in infant classes for letter formation. 

Getting ready for writing.

Throughout the early years, children are encouraged to participate in a range of fine motor activities that develop:

• their manipulative skills
• a dominant hand
• the ability to use both hands together

Introducing pre-writing patterns aids the smooth transition to writing alphabet letters.

New wave Pre-writing patterns presents a simple, systematic and fun approach for teaching the foundation skills that are necessary for fluent handwriting. It outlines six basic movements that are essential for children to learn the pre-writing patterns used to make pictures and then combined to make letters and numbers.

New wave Pre-writing patterns introduces each new pattern in three stages:

Stage 1: Learn the new pattern as a big body movement. At this initial stage it is essential that the oral prompting clues are also established.

Stage 2: Use art activities to practice the new movement, in big and small ways, to form a memory for making pre-writing patterns. 

Stage 3: Consolidate the new movement and pattern through pre-writing pattern activity worksheets