WriteAbility
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Eversdalheights, South Africa
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I am an Occupational Therapist with a Master's degree in occupational therapy. I am passionate about early intervention and have a special interest in Pediatrics, Sensory Integration, and ADHD. I have more than 20 years of experience in early childhood development and have worked in private practice, special education as well as public school settings.
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Handwriting; Spacing between words (Worksheets).
Graded, therapeutic worksheets developed by an Occupational Therapist. Aimed specifically at younger children learning to write sentences or older learners struggling with spacing of written work. Product can be used in conjunction with classroom activities or remedial intervention (2 D Spatial planning difficulties) Product includes:Printable worksheets .Semi-concrete activities and classroom aids for teachers.Can be used as an home programme by parents or therapists.
1st - 2nd
Handwriting
Also included in: Spacing of written work: Video and worksheet combo
Cutting Skills: Fine Motor Activity Pack (Vol. 2)
Scissor skills are an essential part of pencil grasp development. Cutting is an easy, fun way to practice the hand muscles necessary for writing. We use the same muscles and fingers (thumb, index, and middle fingers) to cut and write. It is an essential development skill for school readiness and supports writing and pencil grasp development. The WriteAbility cutting skills activity resource (Vol 2) was created by an occupational therapist and includes guidelines for the use and development of cu
PreK - 4th
Handwriting
Also included in: Developing Scissor Skills: Cutting Skills Bundle
b/d Reversals and Confusion (Digital/ Online Activity)
Do you need something fun to challenge your child and engage them during homework? Teachers looking for less printing, laminating, and less time preparing activities? Then our new WriteAbility Digital Online games are meant for you. Two letters that often cause most reversals or confusion are the 'b' and ' d' sounds. To prevent letter confusion and reversals, this resource was created by an occupational therapist and focuses on visual and auditory perception exercises to consolidate the lette
K - 2nd
Phonics & Phonological Awareness
Also included in: Visual Perceptual Skills: Occupational Therapy Bundle (Boom Cards)
Let's write sentences: Remedial strategy, worksheets, and activities.
This resource was created by an occupational therapist, specifically for learners in the foundation phase who struggle with using the correct punctuation (e.g., capital letters, full stop) when writing sentences. The strategy is particularly suitable for visual perception and spatial planning difficulties and challenges in attention and focus. Learners with perceptual and attention, and concentration challenges often find it challenging to use punctuation correctly during writing tasks. Sent
K - 1st
Handwriting
Also included in: WriteAbility: Let's Write Mega Bundle
Playdough Fun with Shapes
Playdough is a exciting way to practice fine motor skills and consolidate perceptual development concepts such as shape concepts, shape recognition and shape formation and drawing. It has the added benefit of strengthening hand muscles for the development of fine motor skills. This resource includes: Shape Posters and Shape Playdough Activity mats encouraging shape recognition, shape formation and visual spatial concepts in a playful and child-friendly way. Can be printed and laminated for
PreK - 1st
Handwriting
Also included in: WriteAbility Playdough Bundle
Easter Fun: Fine Motor and Visual Perceptual Worksheets and Activities
The Easter Fun Activity resource includes various visual perceptual, eye-hand coordination, and fine motor activities. It was developed by an occupational therapist and incorporates Using the Easter theme to enhance early developmental skills, including visual discrimination, figure-ground perception, eye-hand coordination, fine motor activities to improve pencil control and cutting skills. Lots of fun and variety to stimulate perceptual and motor skills This resource includes:6 Eye-hand coordi
PreK - 1st
Handwriting
Let's have fun with VOWELS!
This Vowel-themed resource includes various activities and worksheets aimed at developing literacy skills. It was created by an occupational therapist and incorporates early developmental skills, including visual and auditory perceptual activities, eye-hand coordination, letter formation, and fine motor skills to support development and learning. It can be printed in book form or used as individual activities for the classroom, therapy, or at home. This resource includesTeaching strategy10 Post
K - 2nd
Handwriting, Phonics & Phonological Awareness
Also included in: WriteAbility: Let's Write Mega Bundle
Let's Write 3 Letter Words-Activities and Worksheets
Children learn best through multi-sensory experiences and when tasks are introduced in a fun and age-appropriate way. This resource was developed by an occupational therapist and aims to develop letter sound/ recognition, letter formation, word building, and visual and auditory skills in an age-appropriate and creative manner. This tool includes the following:20 x 3 letter words (build the word with playdough). Print in color to laminate for repeated use.36 x Write and Wipe 3 letter word acti
PreK - 1st
Handwriting, Phonics & Phonological Awareness
Also included in: WriteAbility: Let's Write Mega Bundle
Transportation: Perceptual Activities, Games and Worksheets.
This Transport themed resource includes various games, activities, and worksheets to develop early learning skills. It was created by an occupational therapist and incorporate the theme of transport using early developmental skills. These skills include visual and auditory discrimination, figure-ground perception, eye-hand coordination, spatial planning, and fine motor activities to improve pencil control and cutting skills. The resource includes Flashcards, Vocabulary posters, and hands-on ga
PreK - 1st
Vocabulary
Cutting Activities: Fine Motor Development
Scissor skills are an essential part of pencil grasp development. Cutting is an easy, fun way to practice the hand muscles necessary for writing. We use the same muscles and fingers (thumb, index, and middle fingers) for both cutting and writing activities. It is an essential development skill for school readiness and supports writing and pencil grasp development. The WriteAbility cutting skills activity resource was created by an occupational therapist and includes guidelines for the use an
PreK - 2nd
Handwriting
Also included in: Fine Motor Skills: Fine Motor Activity and Cutting Skills Bundle
Handwriting: Ergonomic considerations for comfortable writing.
Ergonomic considerations for comfortable writing including pencil grip, page positioning for left and right handed individuals as well as sitting posture. Includes 5 printable posters
K - 2nd
Handwriting, Writing
Also included in: Poster Bundel: Handwriting Series.
Pre-Writing Lines and Activities to develop Pencil Control.
Pre-writing lines are lines and shapes that toddlers and preschoolers learn in a developmental sequence that help them to form letters later on for handwriting. Lines down, across, cross shapes, circles, squares, diagonal lines are all considered pre-writing lines.This resource includes various pre-writing lines and writing patterns, trace the lines, and mazes to improve pre-writing skills and pencil control for neat, legible writing. It is a fun way to practice and consolidate these skil
PreK - 1st
Handwriting
Also included in: Fine Motor Bundle: Activities to improve Pencil Control
Visual Perceptual Skills: Form Constancy and Figure Ground (Digital Activity)
Form Constancy and Figure Ground is an online (digital) activity. NO printing needed.Figure-ground perception is the ability to see an object in a busy background. This skill allows us to distinguish, segregate, isolate or find things or stimuli in varying environments. Correctly processing our visual figure-ground helps to organize the information we see in our environment. This can include faces, figures, objects, landscapes, and letters or numbers and words. This Figure-Ground and Form Cons
K - 2nd
Phonics & Phonological Awareness
Also included in: Visual Perceptual Skills: Occupational Therapy Bundle (Boom Cards)
Fun with Sounds: I can read and spell. (Digital/ Online Activity).
Fun with Sounds: I can read and spell. (Digital/ Online Activity) NO PRINTING needed!This fun self-correcting activity is played online on the Boom Learning platform and aims to consolidate beginning, middle and end sounds, letter recognition and writing 3 letter words from memory, in a game format. The resource introduces beginning, middle and end sounds, expands vocabulary, and develops auditory and visual perceptual abilities) as well as critical thinking. It can be played independently depe
PreK - 1st
Phonics & Phonological Awareness
Also included in: Fun with Sounds: Digital (online) Mega Bundle.
Fun with Sounds: End Sounds (Digital Activity Boom Cards)
This fun self-correcting activity is played online on the Boom Learning platform and aims to consolidate end sounds and letter recognition in a game format. This game introduces end sounds, expands vocabulary, and develops auditory and visual perceptual abilities as well as critical thinking. It can be played independently depending on the child's age and skill level. It consists of 30 task cards that can be played online or printed for classroom use (optional). It's fun and easy to use. Age
PreK - 1st
Phonics & Phonological Awareness
Also included in: Fun with Sounds: Digital (online) Mega Bundle.
Fun with Middle Sounds: Digital (online) activity.
Fun with Middle Sounds: Digital (online) activity. NO PRINTING needed!This fun self-correcting activity is played online on the Boom Learning platform and aims to consolidate middle sounds and letter recognition in a game format. This game introduces middle sounds, expands vocabulary, and develops auditory and visual perceptual abilities as well as critical thinking. It can be played independently depending on the child's age and skill level. It consists of 30 task cards that can be played on
K - 1st
Phonics & Phonological Awareness
Also included in: Fun with Sounds: Digital (online) Mega Bundle.
Fun with Words: Build 3-letter words. (Digital Activity: Boom Cards)
Fun with Words: Build 3-letter words is a online (digital activity) NO printing needed.Children learn best when tasks are introduced in a fun and age-appropriate way. What is more, fun to practice creating short words during an online game ? This resource was developed by an occupational therapist and aims to develop letter/sound recognition, word building, and visual and auditory skills in an age-appropriate way. This fun activity is played online on the Boom Learning platform. It aims to c
PreK - 1st
Phonics & Phonological Awareness
Also included in: Fun with Sounds: Digital (online) Mega Bundle.
Play dough Activity Fun (Pre-writing skill development)
Playdough is a creative way to practice fine motor skills and consolidate perceptual development concepts such as number concepts, color recognition, shapes concepts, body scheme to name but a few. It has the added benefit of strengthening hand muscles for the development of fine motor skills. This resource includes 20 playdough activity mats encouraging fine motor and perceptual development in a playful and child-friendly way. It includes different pre-writing lines and skills for handwriti
PreK - 1st
Handwriting
Also included in: WriteAbility Playdough Bundle
Fun with Beginning Sounds: Digital (online) activity.
Fun with beginning Sounds: Digital (online) activity. NO PRINTING needed!This fun self-correcting activity is played online on the Boom Learning platform and aims to consolidate beginning sound and letter recognition in a game format. This game introduces beginning sounds, expands vocabulary, and develops auditory and visual perceptual abilities )as well as critical thinking. It can be played independently depending on the child's age and skill level. It consists of 30 task cards that can be pla
PreK - 1st
Phonics & Phonological Awareness
Also included in: Fun with Sounds: Digital (online) Mega Bundle.
b/d Confusion and Reversals (Digital Activity) FREE SAMPLE.
Two letters that often cause most reversals or confusion are the 'b' and 'd' sounds. To prevent letter confusion and reversals, this resource was created by an occupational therapist and focuses on visual and auditory perception exercises to consolidate the letters 'b' and 'd' and prevent b/d confusion and reversals when reading and writing. This is a fun self-correcting activity to develop perceptual and critical thinking skills and should ideally be used in conjunction with the WriteAbility:
K - 2nd
Phonics & Phonological Awareness
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About the store
Experience
I am an Occupational Therapist with a Master's degree in occupational therapy. I am passionate about early intervention and have a special interest in Pediatrics, Sensory Integration, and ADHD. I have more than 20 years of experience in early childhood development and have worked in private practice, special education as well as public school settings.
Teaching style
As occupational therapists we are passionate about children and early development. Writing ability entails so much more than just fine motor skills. There are many foundational skills necessary to enable neat, legible writing with appropriate speed, spacing and quality.
WriteAbility aims to support teachers, therapists and parents with information, tools and therapeutic home and classroom activities to support and develop all aspects of writing skills for children from PreK to 3rd Grade.
If you love what you do, you will never work a day in your life!
Awards & shining teacher moments
Dedre van Wyngaard Occupational Therapist. (M.Occ.Ther)
Occupational Therapist, Educational consultant and Part Time lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch South Africa.
My own education history
B. Occ Therapy University of Stellenbosch 1999
M. Occ Therapy University of Stellenbosch 2008
Sensory Integration Certified SAISI 2009
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