How to teach Writing Skills
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Author: Kunnampallil Gejo John, Audiologist and Speech Language Pathologist (MASLP), India. FOR WRITING SKILLS AND ATTENTIN SPAN – PRACTICE THIS EXERCISES Exercises First 7 days, Practice 2 to 3 times a day for about 45 to 60 minutes. Try them all. 1. Clenching and stretching fingers 2. Full arm swing 360⁰ 3. Half arm swing 180⁰ (laterally ie. Above Head) 4. Extension and relaxation of Elbow 5. Rotation of Hand from front to back (in mirror-seeing position) 6. Push the wall with both hands wider than shoulder width 7. Imagine pushing the wall with hands in Claw - like position 8. Imagine pulling the wall (hands on wall) 9. Picking 100/200 beans using thumb, index finger and middle finger 10. Use different types of clips and put it on a cardboard/fiber plate 11. Pin fixing activity, 20 to 30 pins must take and fix it one by one on a thermocol 12. Squeeze modeling clay so hands that it comes out form gaps between fingers 13. Roll the clay with thumb and fingers First – Thumb and index finger Second – Thumb and middle finger 14. Repeat no: 9 activity 15. Sticking activity- small stars/ bindhi will paste it on the wall in order (using thumb and index finger 16. Roll the clay in longish shape, same as
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Author: Kunnampallil Gejo John, Audiologist and Speech Language Pathologist (MASLP),
India.
FOR WRITING SKILLS AND ATTENTIN SPAN –
PRACTICE THIS EXERCISES
Exercises First 7 days, Practice 2 to 3 times a day for about 45 to 60 minutes.
Try them all.
1. Clenching and stretching fingers
2. Full arm swing 360⁰
3. Half arm swing 180⁰ (laterally ie. Above Head)
4. Extension and relaxation of Elbow
5. Rotation of Hand from front to back (in mirror-seeing position)
6. Push the wall with both hands wider than shoulder width
7. Imagine pushing the wall with hands in
Claw - like position
8. Imagine pulling the wall (hands on wall)
9. Picking 100/200 beans using thumb, index finger and middle finger
10. Use different types of clips and put it on a cardboard/fiber plate
11. Pin fixing activity, 20 to 30 pins must take and fix it one by one on a thermocol
12. Squeeze modeling clay so hands that it comes out form gaps between fingers
13. Roll the clay with thumb and fingers
First – Thumb and index finger
Second – Thumb and middle finger
14. Repeat no: 9 activity
15. Sticking activity- small stars/ bindhi will paste it on the wall in order (using thumb
and index finger
16. Roll the clay in longish shape, same as
Author: Kunnampallil Gejo John, Audiologist and Speech Language Pathologist (MASLP),
India.
17. Ball catching game ,use different balls.
18. Child’s palm size clay/ plastic ball. Ask child to roll it on the table without falling off
the table. (make it a game as rolling food/sandwich)
19. Take small beans/cereals each one should wrap in a paper using both hands with 3
fingers (make it as a candy wrapper)
20. Cutting paper using scissors (various scissors) and also use varieties of shapes and
lines.
21. Use crayons (different types) in left to right manner.
22. Use sand (dry sand and wet sand), draw various shapes/patters like +, /,= and so
on.
23. Use oil paper , keep simple picture or shapes and trace with crayons and HB pencils.
24. Join dots like upward, downward, zig zag manner, U shape, W shape and M shape.
25. Copying skills: copy alphabet, copy numbers and copy pictures.
(Please do these activities definitely you can see the changes)
