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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.

Spacing of written work: Video and worksheet combo

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Handwriting; Spacing between words (Worksheets).

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WriteAbility

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)

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WriteAbility

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

Winter: Perceptual Activities and Worksheets

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WriteAbility

This Winter themed resource includes a variety of activities and worksheets aimed at developing early learning skills. It was created by an occupational therapist and incorporates the theme of Winter using early developmental skills, including visual discrimination, figure-ground perception, eye-hand coordination, spatial planning, visual sequential and fine motor activities to improve pencil control and cutting skills. It can be printed in book form or used as individual activities for the clas

PreK - 2nd

Also included in: Seasons: Visual Perception and Fine Motor Activity Resource Bundle.

Spatial Planning: Tangram Puzzles

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WriteAbility

Tangram puzzles can help develop stronger problem-solving abilities and is a fun way to engage kids in perceptual planning activities. What is a tangram?Invented in China approximately 200 years ago, a tangram is a two-dimensional re-arrangement puzzle created by cutting a square into seven pieces -- seven geometric shapes called "tans" (Slocum et al 2003) This Spatial Planning Tangram resource is designed to support children's spatial perceptual development. It was created by an occupational

PreK - 1st

Math

Also included in: Spatial Perception: Occupational Therapy Resource Bundle

Spatial Awareness: Spatial perception activities and worksheets

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WriteAbility

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 understand and respond to a change in position from these objects. This is a complex skill that children develop from an early age. Spatial perception is the ability to perceive an object's position in relation to yourself or in relation to oth

PreK - 1st

Also included in: Visual Spatial Perceptual Development: Resource Bundle

Playdough Fun with Shapes

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WriteAbility

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

Opposites: Activities and perceptual worksheets

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WriteAbility

Opposites: These activity resources and worksheets were designed to support children's visual perceptual and cognitive development. This resource includes various hands-on activities to practice visual and auditory skills around the theme of opposites, needed for early perceptual and cognitive development. It has easier (semi-concrete games and eye-hand coordination activities) and more challenging exercises (easy reading and writing). Easier activities can be used from age four and can be

PreK - 2nd

Spring: Perceptual and fine motor activities and worksheets.

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WriteAbility

This Spring themed resource includes a variety of activities and worksheets aimed at developing early learning skills. It was created by an occupational therapist and incorporates the theme of Spring using early developmental skills, including: visual discrimination, figure-ground perception, eye-hand coordination, spatial planning, and fine motor activities to improve pencil control and cutting skills. It can be printed in book form or used as individual activities for the classroom, therapy,

PreK - 1st

Also included in: Seasons: Visual Perception and Fine Motor Activity Resource Bundle.

Figure-Ground Perception: Occupational Therapy Activity program

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WriteAbility

An occupational therapist developed the Figure-Ground Perception Activity program to support visual perceptual development. This resource focuses on Figure-Ground Perception and includes information about perceptual development, various games, activities, and worksheets. 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

PreK - 1st

Also included in: Visual Perception: Occupational Therapy Resource Bundle

Emotions: Perceptual Activities and Worksheets

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WriteAbility

This resource explores emotions and feelings with the use of visual perceptual, eye-hand coordination, and fine motor activities. It was developed by an occupational therapist and incorporates the theme of emotions and feelings with important early developmental skills, including visual discrimination, figure-ground perception, eye-hand coordination, and fine motor activities to improve pencil control. This resource includes -4 x A6 Posters and flashcards illustrating the basic emotions, sad, h

PreK - 1st

Let's get moving: Gross Motor Activity for the classroom.

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WriteAbility

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).

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WriteAbility

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)

Fun with Visual Sequencing: Digital Activity (Boom Cards)

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WriteAbility

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 Perception: Form Constancy and Spatial Planning. Nr.3 (Digital Activity).

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WriteAbility

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.

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WriteAbility

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)

Form Perception: Occupational Therapy program to develop Form Constancy.

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WriteAbility

An occupational therapist developed the Form Constancy activity program to support visual perceptual development. This resource focuses on Visual Form Constancy and includes information about perceptual development, various games, activities, and worksheets. Visual form constancy is the ability to recognize that a shape or object remains the same despite changes in size, position, direction, orientation, and distance, e.g., an object is still the same whether seen from the top, side, or undern

PreK - 1st

Also included in: Visual Perception: Occupational Therapy Resource Bundle

Fine Motor Freebie: Popcorn Fun

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WriteAbility

Fine Motor Activity to support pencil grasp development and strengthen hand muscles for writing. We hope you enjoy this lovely activity. Remember to follow us if you would like to receive information about our freebies and products https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Writeability

PreK - 2nd

Fun with Opposites: Digital Activity (Boom Cards)

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WriteAbility

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 Fruit: Visual memory and Figure-Ground.

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WriteAbility

PreK - 2nd

Visual Perceptual Skills: Visual Discrimination and Figure Ground 2 (Boom Cards)

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WriteAbility

Visual Discrimination Nr.2 is an online (digital) activity. NO printing needed.Visual Discrimination refers to our ability to perceive differences and similarities. This skill is essential for visual perceptual development and is necessary for skills such as reading, spelling and math operations. The activity aims to practice visual discrimination and visual analysis and synthesis skills in an age-appropriate and creative manner. The activity consists of 25 task cards that gradually become

PreK - 1st

Also included in: Visual Perceptual Skills: Occupational Therapy Bundle (Boom Cards)

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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!

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Dedre van Wyngaard Occupational Therapist. (M.Occ.Ther) Occupational Therapist, Educational consultant and Part Time lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch South Africa.