Once your child turns three, the time comes to teach them writing skills and how to hold a pencil correctly. Here we offer your child print-ready worksheets in a PDF file containing pre-writing tracing sheets that teach them the first steps in holding a pencil. Free now: worksheets to train your child’s pencil grip (PDF). Get the complete, high-quality file at the end of the article…
The first steps in teaching a child to hold a pencil and write
You must pay attention to the fact that the way your child holds the pencil the first time will determine how they hold it for the rest of their life. So you must focus on the way they hold the pencil at all times and guide them toward the correct way.
The first steps for holding the pencil
- We steady the pencil between your child’s index finger and thumb.
- Bring a sheet of paper and let them make marks on it.
- Watch your child carefully — if they hold the pencil the way they would hold vegetables, for example, you should guide them toward the correct way of holding the pencil, and gradually they will get used to it.
- You should do the hand-muscle exercises together with your child to guide and follow up with them until they reach the correct way.
- You can place colored pencils in front of them to attract their attention, and then begin tracing on the worksheets that you can get for free at the end of the article in a PDF file.
- We need to understand that the pre-writing stage is the stage of strengthening your child’s hand muscles so that they can hold the pencil — not yet write. So be flexible with your child and don’t make tracing time too long, so they don’t get bored!
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Worksheets to train a child’s pencil grip (PDF)
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Pencil-grip exercises for kids — connect-the-dots for children
In this file you will get 10 connect-the-dots sheets featuring simple cartoon drawings with straight lines, wavy lines, and zigzags, which make it easier for them to write the Arabic letters and numbers later on with ease, once they have learned to hold the pencil correctly and to draw lines in different shapes.
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Pre-writing tracing exercises for kids: trace over the dots and connect them between the lovely cartoon shapes in the picture.
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Worksheets to train a child’s pencil grip (PDF)
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Before the child holds the pencil to write, they learn to trace different kinds of lines, including:
- The straight line
- The zigzag line
- The wavy line
- And some lines that will enable them to write numbers and letters later on.
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