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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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)
Number Concepts: Before and After.
Number Concepts: Before and After, is a digital (online activity) compiled by an occupational therapist to develop number sense in young children (age 4 to 8). Number sense is a group of skills that allow kids to work with numbers. Number Sense includes skills such as:· Understanding quantities. · Ability to rote count · Form numbers correctly · Grasping concepts like more and less, and larger and smaller. · Understanding symbols representing quantities (7 means the same thing as seven). · Makin
PreK - 1st
Numbers
Also included in: Number Concepts: WriteAbility Number Bundle
Tricky Fingers Fine Motor Program
The Tricky Fingers fine motor program consists of a series of fine motor finger exercises to develop the muscles of the hand and support development of a dynamic pencil grasp. Activities are suited for children between the ages of 5 and 8 years. The program includes printable activities, a video demonstrating the desired finger movements and execution of each activity. The activities are fun, easy to prepare and low cost. This program may be copied for use in therapy, the classroom or provi
PreK - 2nd
Handwriting
Also included in: Fine Motor Skills: Fine Motor Activity and Cutting Skills Bundle
Let's get moving: Gross Motor Activity for the classroom.
Let's get moving! Fun, brain-break movement activity to get the bodies moving and provide a well-deserved movement break. This activity can be used in a group setting or individually and forms part of our OT activities for the classroom series. Quick, easy, and fun! This includes a classroom activity and developmental guidelines for body scheme and body concept. Follow us on TPT for more information, resources and freebies https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Writeability
PreK - 2nd
Visual Perception: Spatial Awareness and Orientation. Nr.1 (Digital Activity).
Spatial Awareness and Orientation is an 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 Spatial Awareness Activity resource is designed to support children's spatial perceptual development. Spatial awareness is knowing where your body is in space in relation to objects or other people. To have good spatial awareness, you also need to un
PreK - 1st
Also included in: Visual Perceptual Skills: Occupational Therapy Bundle (Boom Cards)
Number Concepts: More of Less (Digital Online Activity)
Number Concepts: More or Less. (BOOM CARDS) is a digital (ONLINE activity) compiled by an occupational therapist to develop number sense in young learners (age 4 to 8). NO printing needed. Number sense is a group of skills that allow kids to work with numbers. The resource includes skills such as:· Understanding quantities. · Ability to rote count · Form numbers correctly · Grasping concepts like more and less, and larger and smaller.· Understanding symbols that represent quantities (7 means t
PreK - 1st
Numbers
Also included in: Number Concepts: WriteAbility Number Bundle
Fun with Numbers: Subtraction (Digital /Online Activity).
Fun with Numbers: Subtraction is a fun digital (online) activity compiled by an occupational therapist to develop number sense (subtraction of number concepts smaller than 5, in young children. (age 4 to 8). Number sense is a group of skills that allow kids to work with numbers. It includes skills such as:• Understanding quantities. • Ability to rote count • Form numbers correctly • Grasping concepts like more and less, and larger and smaller. • Understanding symbols representing quantities (7 m
PreK - 1st
Basic Operations, Numbers
Also included in: Number Concepts: WriteAbility Number 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 Visual Sequencing: Digital Activity (Boom Cards)
Visual Sequencing refers to our ability to perceive items in a specific order and remember that sequence. This skill is essential for visual and language development and is needed for reading, spelling (organizing letters in a particular order), and mathematical operations. This resource includes various activities to practice sequential visual perceptual skills needed for early perceptual and cognitive development. Self-correcting activity. This fun activity is played online on the Boom Learnin
K - 2nd
Also included in: Visual Perceptual Skills: Occupational Therapy Bundle (Boom Cards)
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 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.
Visual Perception: Form Constancy and Spatial Planning. Nr.3 (Digital Activity).
Visual Form Constancy and Spatial Planning is an 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 Spatial Planning Tangram resource is designed to support children's spatial perceptual development. It was created by an occupational therapist and includes a variety of tangram activities. It provides lots of opportunities to develop spatial
PreK - 2nd
Also included in: Visual Perceptual Skills: Occupational Therapy Bundle (Boom Cards)
Visual Perception: Visual Memory.
Do you need something fun to challenge your child and engage them during homework? Need activities to consolidate skills? Teachers looking for less printing, laminating, and less time preparing activities? Then our new WriteAbility Digital Online games are meant for you. Visual perception is the brain's ability to receive, interpret, and act upon visual stimuli. Visual memory is the ability to remember a specific shape, letter, number, word or object when removed from your visual field. This is
PreK - 1st
Also included in: Visual Perceptual Skills: Occupational Therapy Bundle (Boom Cards)
Number Concepts 1-10 Digital Activity (Boom cards)
Fun with numbers; NUMBER CONCEPTS (1-10). (BOOM CARDS) is a digital (ONLINE activity) compiled by an occupational therapist to develop number sense in young learners (age 4 to 8). NO printing needed. Number sense is a group of skills that allow kids to work with numbers. The resource includes skills such as:· Understanding quantities. · Ability to rote count · Form numbers correctly · Grasping concepts like more and less, and larger and smaller. · Understanding symbols that represent quantitie
PreK - 1st
Numbers
Also included in: Number Concepts: WriteAbility Number Bundle
Play Dough Fun : Numbers 1 to 10
Playdough is a creative way to practice fine motor skills and consolidate perceptual development concepts such as number concepts, number recognition, number formation, and counting. It has the added benefit of strengthening hand muscles for the development of fine motor skills. This resource includes 10 Number Posters (1 to 10) and ten playdough mats encouraging counting and number formation in a playful and child-friendly way. Can be printed and laminated for easy use and cleaning. This res
PreK - 1st
Numbers
Also included in: WriteAbility Playdough Bundle
Fun with Opposites: Digital Activity (Boom Cards)
Fun with Opposites is an 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 activity was designed by an occupational therapist to support children's visual perceptual skills (figure-ground perception, analysis, and synthesis) and cognitive development (problem-solving and reasoning). It includes activities to practice visual perceptual skil
PreK - 1st
Also included in: Visual Perceptual Skills: Occupational Therapy Bundle (Boom Cards)
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.
Fun with numbers: I can ADD 1-5 : Digital Activity (Boom Cards)
Fun with Numbers (Addition 1-5 )is a digital (online activity) compiled by an occupational therapist to develop number sense in young children (age 4 to 8). Number sense is a group of skills that allow kids to work with numbers. Number Sense includes skills such as:· Understanding quantities. · Ability to rote count · Form numbers correctly · Grasping concepts like more and less, and larger and smaller. · Understanding symbols representing quantities (7 means the same thing as seven). · Maki
PreK - 1st
Numbers
Also included in: Number Concepts: WriteAbility Number Bundle
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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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