What are early writing skills? They are the skills that help a child learn to write, including talking, listening, thinking, and reading. But it’s also building the fine motor skills needed to hold a pencil or pen, draw, and make straight and curvy lines. These worksheets give your preschooler practice building these important fine motor skills.
Practicing circles
Skill: Tracing
Going in circles!
In this early writing worksheet, your child will work on a valuable skill (drawing counterclockwise circles) that will aid in writing letters with curves such as Q, C, O and G.
Practicing curves in the water
Skill: Early writing practice
Imagine swimming dragons.
In this fun coloring worksheet, your child will connect the dots to create fluid, curvy lines 鈥� and finish the picture of these cute characters.
Practicing straight lines
Skill: Writing letters
The mouse ran up the clock, but in this early writing worksheet the pen will run down it!
Your child will get practice drawing vertical lines in a downward direction 鈥� by way of connecting the dots. This key skill is essential in forming letters.
Tracing a path
Skill: Coloring
Cute animals 鈥� ready for coloring.
In this early writing worksheet, your child will color, trace, and draw 鈥� left to right 鈥� the winding curved path of a duck, a “mouse,” a snail, and a kitten.
Watch it go!
Skill: Left to right
Fly like a butterfly!
In this early left-to-right drawing worksheet, your child will “read,” trace, and then draw the curvy-lined paths of a butterfly, ball, monkey, and kite across the page.
