4’s Skills Heritage Learning Center Skill Sheet Printing Name Children are so excited when they can print their name! We love to see their confidence grow as they master this important milestone. The “scribbling” your child did at two is an important precursor to printing. The child must develop the motor skills necessary to control the pencil. S/he must know that the written word has meaning. Then s/he is ready to print. Many parents mistakenly teach their child to print in all caps. Kindergarten teachers seem to take great offense at this! So at Heritage we encourage the children to print their names with only the first letter capitalized. The correct manuscript printing form for your child’s name is at the bottom of this page. As children begin to print their names, it is very common for letters to be backwards, missing, out of sequence, upside down or even a perfect mirror image (we couldn’t do it if we tried!). You can help your child by always putting a green dot in the upper left hand corner of the page (helps with learning left to right progression too) and telling him/her to start at the green dot with the first letter. Any activity that helps develop fine motor skills (cutting, play dough, legos) will help him/her to develop the necessary muscle control for printing. ______________ _ 4’s Skills Correct manuscript printing for your child’s name