Pre-Writing Worksheets

With these fun Pre-writing pencil control worksheets, children will enjoy working on their handwriting and fine motor skills.

Check out the list of materials that we use with these printables.

Pencil Control Worksheets

It is important for young children to become familiar with holding and controlling where a pencil draws on paper. This is a great way to work up to correct letter and number formation. It also helps them learn the direction for reading and writing. 

These tracing line worksheets give you children an opportunity to work on fundamental skills by completing simple tasks by themselves. It will help improve their fine motor skills, strengthen their hands and prepare them for handwriting in the future.

Pre-Writing Worksheets

With these engaging pre-writing worksheets, children will be working on writing:

• Vertical lines
• Horizontal lines
• Curved lines
• Shapes
• Pathways 
• And so much more!

These pencil control worksheets are a wonderful way for children just starting to build their handwriting skills to enjoy learning this new skill.

These black and white worksheets can be printed out multiple times for practice, laminated and used with a dry-erase marker or placed in a page protector and used with a dry erase marker.

This dot activity can instil a love of tracing and neat handwriting skills. In drawing the lines, children will also be working on their fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.

There are over 40 pages of different tracing lines, shapes and more.

While pencils are the most common writing tool, this activity can be used with a variety of tools including:

• Different types of markers
• Crayons
• A paintbrush and paint
• Highlighters
• Placing mini erasers on the lines

Whatever they use, they need to practice the correct way of holding it.

More Tracing and Cutting Resources

• Dinosaur Tracing and Cutting Printables
• Alphabet Tracing Worksheets
• Reindeer Tracing Strips
• Insect Tracing and Cutting Strips
• Shape Tracing and Cutting Strips
• Arctic Tracing and Cutting Strips

 

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