My Pre-Writing
Workbook
Instructions for using this booklet
This booklet is designed to help your child develop the skills needed for writing. All letters are made up of shapes
which need to be mastered before writing can be effective. We encourage you to give your child plenty of time and
practice to become proficient with each shape.
Below is a picture of the ideal grip, although there are other functional ways to hold a pencil. To develop this grip,
encourage your child to complete lots of activities using the thumb, index and middle finger. These could be things
like peg games, spraying water from a spray bottle, picking up small items like coins or peas.
Start with chunky crayons and felt tip pens if they struggle to hold a pencil.
Encourage your child not only to draw these shapes on paper, but try to use other media like paint, sand and shaving
foam.
Draw down the lines to give the flowers stems.
Draw on the lines to help the transport get moving.
Draw on the lines to help the animals get moving.
Draw on the lines to make the rain fall.
I I I I I I I
I I I I I I I
I I I I I I I
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I I I I I I I
I I I I I I I
I I I I I I I
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
Draw a line between to the dots to stop and start.
Draw the circles to make more suns.
Draw on the lines to finish the presents.
Note: Left handers may choose to draw horizontal lines from right to left
Draw the tails on the balloons.
Draw the carriages for the trains.
Draw on the lines to make the
kite tails.
Fill in all the crosses to finish the noughts and crosses game.
Draw the shapes that make a house.
Draw on the lines to make a rainbow pattern.
Draw on the lines make more
bananas.
Draw on lines to make the mountains