Tools for Improving Kids Handwriting

A programme for 3 1/2 to 5 1/2 year olds. Designed by Speech Pathologists, this resource highlights the auditory, oral production and the phonic basis of the alphabet. Flash cards provide a body action to be incorporated into learning the alphabet. The pack consists of 26 A4 double sided flash cards and 26 small single sound flash cards. This pack is in cursive font.

A programme for 3 1/2 to 5 1/2 year olds. Designed by Speech Pathologists, this resource highlights the auditory, the oral production and the phonic basis of the alphabet. Flash cards provide a body action to be incorporated into the early alphabet learning process. The pack consists of 26 A4 double sided flash cards and 26 small single sound flash cards. Foundation Font.

Strong, clear perspex design with metal clip. 20 degree recommended angle. Small rubber stoppers at the base to prevent movement. Designed to be lightweight and portable. Angled Boards (or slope boards) help children to maintain an upright sitting posture and a more extended wrist position while writing. They are highly recommended by Optometrists.

Animal Lap Bag, filled with stainless steel pellets, ensuring these are machine washable. Comes in a choice of designs of dog, cat or duck. Weight of 2 kg 

Poster, glue and acrylic brush with chunky grip for young children. Discourages a 'dagger' grasp.

The base plate that matches all of the Coko pieces. Size 28 X 28 cm

One of the Coko plates collection. This version includes the diagraphs for word building eg: 'sh', 'ch', 'th' etc. All in foundation script. CD and teachers notes are included. See other parts of the collection: base plate, lowercase letters, vowel sounds and word families.

Popular tool to assist children with early phonetic skills to write. Letters are clearly seen and spaced to make it easy for children to sound out words and then copy what they have made. Look for the coko base plates, sold seperately, and the diagraphs, vowel sounds and word families.

Fantastic drawing tool for little hands, to promote a lovely tripod grasp. Allows small fingers to colour in large, wide strokes. Designed to strengthen the tripod grasp muscles, preparing the fingers and hands for pen and pencil use. Made with soy bean wax. Velvet bag comes with 16 colours.

A portable easel with whiteboard and blackboad. Vertical surface promotes great pencil position for early writing skills. Includes 12 colouring pencils, 8 oil pastels, 8 triangular markers, 2 pencils, 2 chalk sticks and whiteboard marker. Good quality art materials.

These textas provide a novel way for children to practice their fine motor control as they trace the first line with the overwriter to make it change colour.

The Evo Pen is an ergonomically shaped pen that provides children with an alternative pen grip to relieve pain/fatigue when writing. People suffering from arthritis also find this pen to assist with pen control

Kids love these smelly textas - they can smell strawberry, chocolate, toothpaste, lemons, and more. Pack of 10. Highly motivating.

A teachers manual designed by Occupational Therapists, provides clear information on the norms of fine and gross motor skill development and current information regarding dominance, grasps, in-hand manipulation and hand strength. This guide also outlines 4 year old fine motor cutting, colouring, drawing, playdough and pre-writing activities. Gross motor, ball, balance, eye tracking and body control activities.

The Jumbo pencil grip is an enlarged version of The Pencil Grip, suitable for preschool children. It supports the fingers and opens up the webspace to assist in writing control. Needs to be used on regular circumference pencils.

The Jumbo Pencil Grip is an enlarged version of The Pencil Grip. Suitable for preschool children. Supports the fingers and opens up the webspace to maximise writing control and reduce handwriting difficulty. Comes either single or a pack of 5.

Stainless steel lap bag is machine washable.

Stainless Steel Lap Bag, machine washable.

Another tool for handwriting and literacy work. Assists learning without emphasis on precise motor skills. Available in Lower Case letters, 50 pieces. Suggested purchase of a COKO Base plate as well.

 Easy to use PLD resource, outlines how to commence instructing letter formation in an early childhood manner. Occupational Therapists and Speech Pathologists have designed this resource. Eg: instructions include 'ask students to form the letters in the air with eyes open/closed' or adult says 'put your pencil on the starting dot and write the letter 's' while staying on the grey path. Change the colour of your pencil and repeat'. 

PLD resource book outlines how to commence instructing letter formation in an early childhood manner. Developed by Occupational and Speech Pathologists. Examples: ask students to form the letters in the air with eyes open or eyes closed. 

Adult says : 'Put your pencil on the starting dot and write the letter 's' while staying on the grey path. Change the colour of your pencil and repeat.'

Large circumference textas designed for preschoolers. Extra strong nibs that dont flatten. Last with extra ink reservoir. Perfect for writing and colouring as have a pointed tip. Recycled plastic. Contain a pack of 12. 

 These clever writing tools tactilely and visually cue children on how much space to leave between letters and words when writing. They also feature a 'tracking window' for reading that accentuates black print. The Blue finger spacers are designed from Preschool to Year 2. The green ones are for older children. 

 Comfort and the natural contours of the hand inspired the design of this new pen. Made with special coating that feels like soft silk....finger tension melts away as the natural weight of ones hand holds the pen in place, no tight gripping required. Pen includes two black refills. Also comes in a pencil Pen Again Pencil. 

 The Pen Again Pencil is designed for small hands. This innovative new pencil has the same ergonomic design as the Pen Again. Comes with a 2mm lead that never needs re-sharpening. The wishbone shape design naturally promotes an efficient tripod grasp. Non refillable. Fun colours. 

PLD resource developed by Speech Pathologists and Occupational Therapists. Introduces comprehensive pre-handwriting programme with activities targetting: pencil grasp, paper position, posture and rehearsal of pre-writing patterns. Occulomotor and visual perceptual tasks are also incorporated including visual memory, tracking and visual discrimination. 

Ribie foam grips come in a variety of bright colours and tactile bumps

Set of two sand timers each of 3 minutes duration. Children love to use these as a guide to 'get their work done'.

Silky smooth glide on colour pastel sticks in a plastic retractable dispenser. Quality twist mechanism can be easily rolled out and retracted again. Children can get excellent results with varying their pressure - great proprioceptive feedback.

Also available in fluoro, metallic, and changeables.

Skillbuilders Handwriting Kit is designed for the student commencing prewriting skills and learning letter formations. The activities included are fun and use 'different' ways to learn pencil control, establish correct movement patterns, and improve posture and pencil grip. The kit is designed for 2-3 students, however it can be modified to suit a small handwriting group of 4-5 children. Skillbuilders Handwriting Kit is designed by Occupational Therapists. It includes : 

• instructions and tips on activities to engage students in when using the kit,
• information on pencil grasps in children,
• perspex angled writing board,
• theraputty with activity suggestions,
• wikki stix and instruction book,
• plastic tray and shaving cream, 
• upper and lower case letter stencils,
• a range of lead pencils,
• a trial pack of pencil grips,
• a handiwriter,
• coloured lined paper pads to assist with letter sizing, and
• magnetic wand and magnetic discs. 

The Handwriting Kit is contained in a durable and practical box. The saving is over $50 on the value of all the products, with the added bonus of all the information and activity suggestions.

A new style of grip which encourages tripod positioning for both left and right handers.

An easy way to assist children visually to learn and spell basic words. Each set of words is illustrated with easily recognisable pictures to help young children learn 36 common 3 and 4 letter words and devlop first reading and spelling skills.

A word building activity. It includes a pack of 48 child related pictures and 80 letter cards that easily fit together. These cards can be used to make more than 500 words. Great tool to assist children to visually isolate sounds and syllables within words.

A board game designed to help children learn the spelling of 560 selected words, which makes upto 2/3 of the vocabulary of everyday language. Children are expected to spell the words correctly, race along the path on the board and score maximum marks.

A grip which feels like wobbly jelly and helps children relax pencil pressure.

A small firm grip made of moulded plastic. Great for finger positioning.

One of the most popular grips around. A large, soft comfortable grip which helps position fingers and maintain an open webspace. Suitable for both left and right hands.

Designed by Jan Olsen OTR, this clever little grip encourages correct placement of thumbs on pens and pencils. The 
answer for thumbs that overlap index fingers!!!
1. Insert pencil into inside tube.
2. Insert thumb in outer tube.
3. Pull the thumb buddy up.

 These clever writing tools tactilely and visually cue children on how much space to leave between letters and words when writing. They also feature a 'tracking window' for reading that accentuates black print. The Blue finger spacers are designed from Preschool to Year 2. The green ones are for older children.