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Motor Plans & Letter Formation

January 18, 2024 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Motor Plans & Letter Formation

People ask me semi-often about learning “letter formation”, or, to put it in other terms, what would be the “right” way to teach children letters? (assuming that they WANT to learn to write letters…none of […]

Activities

BIG Word Search

April 18, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on BIG Word Search

With the big kids in my action room who still have handwriting or letter formation goals, one of the activities I set out is a big huge grid on the floor drawn on butcher paper, […]

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Letter Reversals

February 7, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Letter Reversals

It is extremely common and normal for children to reverse or invert letters when they are learning to write, or confuse those letters when they are learning to read. It makes perfect sense when you […]

Activities

Spy Code: Intermediate & Expert Mode

January 17, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Spy Code: Intermediate & Expert Mode

Since people were into my “spy code” activity in its extremely simplified form, I thought I’d share a few printable ones along with the whole “code” that I usually use. (Eagle-eyed readers may notice that […]

Activities

Spy Code: Beginner Mode

January 16, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Spy Code: Beginner Mode

I have a “secret spy code” activity that I do with lots of kids at different times. I love it for lots and lots of reasons: it’s a fun writing and reasoning activity that doesn’t […]

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