Pre-Writing Skills: Pencil Control

A square around a lion, loops past a UFO, steadier hands.

Pre-Writing Skills: Pencil Control is a pre-writing activity book that builds the pencil grip and hand control children need before they write letters.

Children trace dotted lines, loops and shapes to build the steady hand that writing needs. Simple mazes and odd-one-out puzzles add variety, and the pages bring in shapes, colours and animals along the way.

What's inside

• A shapes page where children trace a square around a lion, a giraffe, a polar bear and more.
• Loopy trails to trace, from one flying saucer to another and from three bees to their flowers.
• Hand and finger exercises meant to strengthen pencil grip, alongside the pencil work.

Quick answers

What skills does it build? Pencil grip and control, fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination, which support handwriting later on.

Does my child need to know letters first? No. It works on the strokes that come before letters, so it suits children who have not started writing yet.