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Did you know that fine motor skills in preschool and kindergarten is the Number One best predictor of academic skills and achievement for your kindergarten-age student? (Cameron, et al.: 2012; Grissmer, David, et al.: 2010; Son &; Meisels: 2006) This fine motor advantage lasts at least through the third grade! (Kulp: 1999)

As an Occupational Therapist, I have designed differentiated Winter Skill Builders
◦ Build fundamental fine motor and executive functioning skills for kindergarten-level kids.
◦ Target specific CCSS literacy and math skills in ways that interest and engage even the most reluctant children.
◦ Provide differentiated yet equivalent materials so you can easily provide the just-right level of difficulty and challenge for a classroom with diverse skills.

Features:
■ Teacher’s Guide for each of the six units.
■ Occupational Therapy tips and tricks for explicit instruction, developmental sequence, and breaking tasks into their smallest steps so all children can learn.
■ Specific differentiation tools and support.
■ Specific objectives for fine motor, visual motor, and executive function skill development.
■ Detailed table of contents so you can easily find what you need at a moment’s notice.
■ No-prep, copy-and-use printables: 61 pages.

Literacy Skill Practice:
☞ Matching, identifying, and labeling capital and lowercase letters.
☞ Left to right sequencing with gaze shift to the next row.
☞ Alphabet sequencing.
☞ Sight word matching.
☞ Sight word reading.
☞ Identifying initial sound of CVC words.
☞ Writing capital and lowercase letters, using go-dots to support starting at the top, an essential aspect of conventional letter formation.

Math Skill Practice:
Matching, identifying, and labeling numbers: 1-11, 1-14, 1-85.
Sequencing numerals: 1-25.
Writing numbers 1-25, with go-dots to support starting at the top.
Adding 2 numbers up to 10.

Fine Motor and Visual Motor Skill Practice:
☞ Develop both a dominant hand and a helper/ stabilizing hand.
☞ Coordinate both sides of the body.
☞ Use eye muscles to track lines.
☞ Use eyes to efficiently shift gaze between objects (two or more places).
☞ Coordinate vision and movement.
☞ Perceive shape and space by vision.
☞ Build hand strength adequate to maintain a pencil grasp, to push, and to adjust the necessary force.
☞ Use both proprioceptive and kinesthetic feedback to adjust and correct pressure and movement.
☞ Use specific cutting skills

Executive Functioning Skill Practice:
☞ Sustain attention
☞ Plan movement and sequences
☞ Implement cognitive flexibility in using a plan
☞ Use working memory
☞ Use self-control

These secular winter-themed worksheets are great for classroom literacy and math centers, morning work, special winter party celebrations, and early finisher work. They are also perfect for occupational therapists to address a variety of fine motor, visual perceptual, and visual memory skills. My students LOVE these Skill Builders activities.

************** Customer Testimonials *****************
☞ This has been a great help for fine motor skills!
☞ Love this! Thanks for the instructions that are so explicit. It helps to know WHY you are teaching what you are teaching.
☞ This compilation of worksheets is my favorite. Not only does it provide you with the actual worksheets, but explanations on the particular activities objectives. I plan on using some of this information included in my goals at school. This is just great! Thank you!
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Given an academic fine motor skills work task which may focus on scissor skills, word families, tracing, alphabetical or numerical order, color words, addition), STUDENT will _______________ independently/with verbal prompts/with visual prompts, STUDENT will complete each assigned task, with 80% accuracy, in 4 out of 5 opportunities, by MONTH, YEAR.
This item is recommended for the following grade levels:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade

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