Kindergarten/First Grade
Whole Body integrative activities
Drawing letters in sand trays or with
shaving cream
Writing letters in air or on carpet
Play dough for strengthening and 3-D
object creation and manipulation
Writing letters on wall or
Lacing patterns and weaving projects,
chalk/whiteboard
string beads and Geoboard designs and
letters using rubber bands
Drawing shapes or objects in air
Creating designs with stamps and using
sidewalk chalk to draw and write on
sidewalks
Coloring and tracing designs and
Pegboard design activities
patterns
Creating Life-sized letters
Cutting activities using a variety of
materials, patterns, and craft assembly
projects
Using paintbrush to form letters on
Painting and drawing for self-expression
paper towel with water…blow it dry
that is not written, use of color and
texture to express ideas
Fine motor activities—puzzles, games,
patterns, play dough, sorting, folding,
digging, building
Follow the leader activities in both
standing and sitting
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Second Grade
Top to bottom
Don’t lift pencil while making the letters
Spacing in-between letters and words
Make letters appropriately..upper and
lower
Beginning of year-tablet paper
End of year, moving towards wide rule.
Some use 2 lines.
Recognize and value the difference
between upper and lower.
Say what you’re doing while you do it.
Fourth Grade
Enter writing cursive-upper and lower
case
Proper formation of letters and
connections/spacing
Read cursive
Proper formation of numbers
Knowledge and use of proper writing,
posture and grip, paper position.
Third Grade
End of year students should be able to
use wide ruled paper.
Begin cursive
Be able to print all upper and lower case
letters
Spacing of words and letters should be
appropriate
Say what you’re doing while you do it.
Fifth Grade
Know all upper and lower case letters in
cursive
Connect letters
Use proper spacing in words and in
between words
Read cursive
Proper formation of numbers
Proper writing posture and grip; paper
position
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