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Rolled Oats: A sensory experience with health benefits!

30/3/2014

 
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Oats can be found in many skincare products.  They have been clinically shown to help heal dry and itchy skin.  Miss 7 has eczema and an "oat-milk bath" was recommended to us by a friend when she was younger.  This is what we do.... 

What do you need?
Rolled oats (uncooked and not the instant stuff).
Sockette 

Preparation
Place 1/2 cup (or more) of the oats into the sockette.  Tie a knot in the sockette.

What do you do?
Place the oat-filled sockette in some water allowing the oats to soak up the water.  Squeeze the sockette.  Repeat until you get a milky liquid from the oats. 

Miss 7 likes using oat-milk on her arms and legs.  She rubs the sockette on her skin squeezing out the milk.  You can generate quite a lot of oat milk from the 1/2 cup of oats.  If you have more than one child in the bath with multiple sockettes, the bath gets quite milky. 

When finished, discard the oats and wash out the sockette for next time.

You can also use this as a sensory experience in a bowl.  The "oat-milk" feels soapy and silky.  It leaves your skin feeling smooth.  This works in both cold and warm water.  

Try the oatmilk to soothe chicken pox, mosquito bites and dry skin.  It is gentle enough on babies and can be used by children and adults of all ages.

I have not tried storing the oat-milk or making oat-milk for consumption.  Have you? 

This is a cost-effective, simple sensory experience with health benefits for your child's skin.
Have you tried making "oat-milk"? Let me know if your child enjoys it!
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Making "oat-milk" in a bowl.

App review: Macleans Nurdle time 

27/3/2014

 
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Macleans Nurdle Time  by GlaxoSmithKline PLC.

Available for ipad, iphone and android.  
Cost: Free

Nurdle Time for iphone
Nurdle Time for ipad
Nurdle Time for android
Android app on Google Play

When did brushing teeth become so fun? 

Macleans have created this free app which features a "Nurdle" {A pea sized dab of toothpaste - who knew?"} to encourage your child to brush their teeth.  This app has instructions on how to brush, a singing and dancing Nurdle, a 2 minute timer and a reward for finishing.  Collect the rewards and use these in the shop to buy clothes and accessories for your "Nurdle".

Macleans Nurdle Time will appeal to young children {approx 8 years and younger}.  It includes visual instructions for brushing and star points to collect.  This app allows for multiple players who can create their own profiles.  Great for a family, although we tend to select one person's Nurdle in the morning and the other in the evening.  

This app has definitely been given the thumbs up by my Mr 3 and Miss 7.  Mr 3 says "its funny" and Miss 7 says "its cool".  They have always loved brushing their teeth, however this gives them additional instruction and sets the time.  I think the app would be useful for a child to watch if a parent is brushing their child's teeth.

Note: On speaking with a dentist friend, she suggested caution that the use of this type of app may be distracting.  As a parent you are the best judge of how this may affect your child.  I would suggest all young children require supervision if not assistance during teeth brushing.  We don't use the app all the time but the kids enjoy it when we do.

Does your child struggle with brushing their teeth? 
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Macleans Nurdle Time
Disclosure: This is not a sponsored post.

Earth Paper ... What is it?

26/3/2014

 
Occupational Therapists have been using "earth" paper for a while.  Typically "earth" paper is a series of lines (baseline and scaffold lines) for handwriting.  The lines are coloured to provide a visual guide for letter placement and size.  Working on letter size and placement helps handwriting legibility when printing.  

I have used my version of "earth" paper in therapy sessions with great success to help with letter size and letter formation.  The results are neatness and legibility as well as child's understanding of how letters look in relation to each other.  

I have developed a set of "earth" paper which is unlike those found elsewhere.  There are solid coloured lines for the earth {brown}, grass {green} and the sky {blue}.  Lines have been produced in two sizes (8mm and 6mm).  My version of "earth paper" can be purchased from the Your Kids OT shop.

I usually use "earth" paper when introducing letter sizes and reinforcing starting points for letter formation.  "Earth" paper is great when introducing letter families according to size of the letters {Refer to previous post for descriptions about letter families in "Meet my Letter Families"} . 

"Earth" paper may be laminated for durability to use with multiple children or repeated use with one child.  You can take a photo of their work so that you have a record of progress.  Alternatively you could colour photocopy numerous pages of "Earth paper" to use as needed with a class or individual children.

As a child becomes familiar with writing on the paper, I may place a copy of the "earth" paper under their regular notebook as a faint guide.  I will then withdraw the use of the paper as the child shows more consistency with letter size and formation.  I may come back to the "earth" paper with the same child if they have a future block of therapy or after a break such as the school holidays. 

Here is a guide for using "earth" paper.

Small letters 
Small letters are written within the green coloured line {grass}.  All small letters have a starting position and finished position for forming the letter within the green coloured line {grass}. The exception to this is the letter “i” where the dot above the line is placed in the blue coloured line {sky}.
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Tall letters 
Tall letters start their letter formation in the blue coloured line {sky} and move into the green coloured line {grass}.  The exception to this is the letter “d” which starts in the green coloured line {grass} and extends to the blue coloured line {sky}.

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Tail letters 
Tail letters start their letter formation in the green coloured line {grass} and move down into the brown coloured line {earth}.  The exception to this is the letter “j” which also has a dot in the blue coloured line {sky}.

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"Earth" Paper may be purchased from the Your Kids OT shop.  This PDF visual guide contains a how to use guide, wall poster with NSW foundation font letters placed on the "earth paper" and two pages of blank "earth paper".   Lines have been produced in two sizes (8mm and 6mm).   See a preview of this paper below.

Have you used "earth" paper? Has your child shown an improvement in handwriting legibility after using "earth" paper?
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Recipe: Banana Sour Cream Muffins

23/3/2014

 
Banana sour cream muffins are a quick yummy snack, perfect for the school lunch box or afternoon tea. The sour cream keeps the muffin moist and the cinnamon sugar on top adds a special touch of yum!

As with all the recipes on Your Kids OT, you can purchase and download a full copy of the recipe with individual photos for each step of the recipe from the shop.  

This is so useful when encouraging your child to be independent when completing recipe steps.   My Miss 7 completed this recipe independently with only a little help taking the muffin tray in and out of the oven and making sure the mixture was stirred enough.  She felt so "grown up" being able to take out the correct ingredients, all of the equipment needed and then to bake "on her own".  The visual photo sequence allowed her to keep track of the step she was up to and what came next.

Alternatively, your preschool or childcare group may make this together for a shared cooking experience.  I watched nervously when Mr 3 scooped the mixture into the patty pans and was surprised at how little mess there was!

The visual photo sequence is helpful when working with children and adults who may have an cognitive delay or developmental disability.

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Banana Sour Cream Muffin from Your Kids OT shop.
Do your kids like helping in the kitchen?

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Ingredients
2 ripe bananas
2 eggs
250 ml sour cream
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/3 cup oil
2 cups plain flour
1/2 cup caster sugar
2 tsp baking powder
Cinnamon sugar

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Equipment needed
Whisk
Mixing bowl
Spoon
Sifter
Muffin tray
Measuring cups
Measuring spoons
Patty pans (cupcake liners)


Method
1.         Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F).
2.         Peel and mash the banana in the mixing bowl. Add 2 eggs, sour cream, vanilla and oil.
3.         Whisk these ingredients together until well combined.
4.         Add the sugar. Sift in the flour and baking powder. Stir mixture gently with spoon.
5.         Line muffin tray with patty pans.  Spoon mixture into patty pans.
6.         Sprinkle cinnamon sugar on each muffin.
7.         Bake in the oven for 15 minutes.

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You could adapt this recipe with different flavours (white chocolate and raspberry, blueberry, choc chip, apple and cinnamon). What is your favourite muffin flavour?  Happy Baking!
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Visual Perceptual Skills: Craft stick shape patterns

20/3/2014

 
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Visual perception is the process of extracting and organising information, giving meaning to what we see.  It is required to perform everyday tasks, such as reading, copying information from a board or understanding symbols.  Read more about visual perception on the Visual Perceptual Skills homepage.

As children develop visual perceptual skills and visual spatial skills, they develop an awareness of how they relate to the world around the.  They develop body awareness and work out how to relate to objects.  They also become aware of how objects relate to each other.  
This simple shape matching activity is great for toddlers and preschoolers.  It helps kids to become familiar with shapes and understand how to position something in space to match the picture given. This is a really important skill when they learn to draw and write, as they need to "figure out" where lines are in relation to each other to form a picture or letter. 
What you need:
  • Coloured paddlepop sticks 
  • Printout of Craft stick shapes pattern sheet found at the Your Kids OT shop.  Purchase, print and laminate the sheets.

{Note: Instead of  craft (aka. paddlepop or popsicle) sticks you could use crayons, pencils, pipecleaners, wool, ribbon, strips of paper, playdogh, etc).
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Match paddlepop sticks with shape pattern sheet found at the Your Kids OT Shop.
How to use:
Simply match the craft stick {or other item} to the shape pattern sheets.  Your child can match the appropriate colour as well.  You could also make the patterns for your child to copy without the pattern sheet. 

But wait, there's more.... here are suggestions to progress this with your child.  The list below is also useful for therapists who may carry this one activity in their "tool kit" and vary it for various children seen within a day according to their skills.

1. Ask your child to copy the shape with the paddle pop stick next to the picture rather than on top of the picture. You may ask your child to trace over the shape with their finger first.

2. a) Ask your child to draw on the laminated shape pattern sheets with a dry-erase marker.
b) When your child is familiar with this, ask your child to draw a copy on paper or a whiteboard with the shape pattern sheet as a model.  Try to place the pattern sheet at the same orientation as the position it is being drawn.  (eg. flat on the table for drawing on paper, vertically for a whiteboard easel).
c) Place the shape pattern sheet at a different orientation to the position being drawn (eg. vertically on stand when drawing on paper at a table).
d) Cut out the picture drawn and match it back to the shape pattern sheet.


3. Apply visual memory by showing the child the shape pattern sheet, removing the page and (a) asking them to reproduce the pattern with paddlepop sticks and (b) drawing a copy of the shape.
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Copy shape beside picture, draw on shapes and draw beside shapes.
Older children might like the challenge of building a maze with their craft sticks! 
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For Telehealth OT, I've been using the pattern sheet via a "share screen" or "share pdf" with the children I'm seeing.  I can select the pattern and then we can build it together using sticks in front of each of us.  I have also used this to encourage drawing from the screen. 
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Watch how you can use craft sticks on the You-tube video below or via this link --->  

If you have an older child having difficulty with letter formation, then it is worth re-visiting shapes and pattern making.  Don't forget to visit theYour Kids OT shop for your copy of these shape pattern sheets.Craft Stick Pattern Copy Templates

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Cindy is a registered occupational therapist practising in Sydney, Australia.  She has two growing children who are a constant source of inspiration and learning.  Cindy loves working creatively to help children to reach their potential, finding opportunities in everyday living and making learning fun. She is also addicted to making printables (even when they take a long time to complete).  Cindy is the author of the Occupational Therapy blog Your Kids OT.  Read more articles from Your Kids OT at https://www.yourkidsot.com/blog

Cindy is a member of the Functional Skills for Kids Therapy Team.  They have together published THE HANDWRITING BOOK, THE SCISSORS SKILLS BOOK and THE TOILETING BOOK.

​The information on this site is general in nature. The activities are safe for most children, however, you should consult an Occupational Therapist or health professional to address specific movement, sensory or other medical conditions. Affiliate links are used throughout this website to promote products I love and recommend. I receive a commission if any purchases are made through these links. Please see my disclosure policy for more details. ​​​
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App Review: Sparklefish

18/3/2014

 
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SparkleFish By Whosagoodboy Partners - FREE

A very funny story creation app.  Your children will love recording their voice with this iphone and ipad  app.  

The free app allows you to choose from a few story templates - A fairy tale, infomercial, cold remedy, greeting card and yearbook signing. 

Your child's job is to record the missing words.  This may be an animal, adjective, verb, adverb, etc.  Each category lists a few examples for your child to get the idea.  I find that most children will choose from the words listed initially and then they become more creative with subsequent recordings. 

Once the words have been recorded, you "SparkleFish it" and listen to the your child's words placed into the prerecorded stories with often hilarious results.  Kids love to hear the sound of their own voices! 

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Whilst I don't think that "SparkleFish" teaches kids about story structure or creative writing skills, this app does encourage creativity.  It helps children to learn the difference between nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. It's a lot of fun too. 

SparkleFish could be used to to engage children in a therapy session or in the classroom.  It could be combined with a writing activity after hearing the SparkleFish story. 

You can purchase additional story packs such as "A Dream World, A Day in the Life, Tall Tales, Realtionships or the complete story pack" as an in-app purchase. The promo video doesn't do the app any favours as you can't hear the stories but I included it just for your information.

Have you tried SparkleFish? It is well worth the free download. Enjoy!
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Homemade: Roller for babies

16/3/2014

 
A homemade "roller" for babies to encourage tummy time.  The roller allows a baby to weight bear on their arms as they reach for  a toy.  Encourage your baby to shift weight through their arms when gently moving forward.  This is important for getting ready to crawl, strengthening the shoulder girdle and trunk.  
Equipment needed
  • Stainless Steel drink bottle
  • Large bath towel (Bath sheet size)
  • Yoga mat
  • Elastic 

How to make?
  • Place the drink bottle on the towel and roll tightly.
  • Roll the yoga mat over the towel.
  • Tie with elastic.



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Homemade Roller for babies at www.yourkidsot.com
How to use?
Gently place baby (approximately 6 - 12 months) over the the roller. Provide support around the hips and gently roll the baby towards a toy.  Encourage your baby to reach and play with a toy and to weight bear on their arms. Roll them back onto their legs and repeat.  Be guided by your baby with how many times to repeat. 

You may also provide an opportunity for your baby to kneel prior to rolling forward. 

Caution: Always supervise your baby with the roller.  Provide physical assistance and never leave your baby unattended with the roller.  Adjustments should be made after each use to make sure it is firmly rolled up.  This should not be used with toddlers and older children.

A homemade roller is useful for families who are looking to encourage tummy time and crawling without the expense of a store-bought foam roller.  Why not share this with your mother's groups or playgroups?  This is also great for therapists for use on home visits where budgets are tight.  Have you got a baby learning to crawl?
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Dough Wars! Cloud Dough vs Kinetic Sand

13/3/2014

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This is the first of many "Dough Wars!" to be found here at Your Kids OT.  There are so many "doughs"  on the market and many more recipes for various "doughs" on the internet.  Today, I'm comparing "Cloud Dough" and "Kinetic Sand".  Don't know what they are... read on...

Cloud Dough

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What is Cloud Dough?
Cloud dough is a homemade dough made from 2 simple ingredients - plain flour and baby oil.

Mix 4 cups of plain flour with 1/2 cup of baby oil to make cloud dough. You may also add your favourite essential oils to add additional sensory stimulation.  Store in an airtight container.
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The sniff test: choosing an essential oil to add to the cloud dough.

Kinetic Sand

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What is Kinetic Sand?
According to the developers - "Kinetic Sand is fun, mess free play sand or sand in motion". http://www.kineticsand.com.au/

It is made out of 98% sand and 2% magic (ie. non-toxic synthetic polymer).  It was developed for children with special needs. 

Kinetic Sand should not be mixed with water as this changes the properties of the sand. 

It never dries out.

Cost?
Cloud dough costs approximately $2.20 (plain flour) + $2.45 (baby oil) = $4.65 for at least 2 batches of the recipe listed above.


Cost?
Kinetic Sand is a commercially available product from the website listed above as well as specialty toy stores throughout Australia.  The 5 kg box costs $49.95 and 1 kg box $19.95.
Winner: Cloud dough is the cost effective option.  I feel protective of the Kinetic sand each time I see some land on the floor and potentially be thrown away. {Feels a bit precious because of the cost, but that could just be me!}

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Sensory experience?
Cloud dough feels smooth to touch because of the baby oil in the dough.  It feels silky without feeling slimy or sticky. Cloud dough can also feel crumbly when it breaks into smaller pieces. The additional sensory experience of making the dough (ie. combining the flour with the baby oil, smelling and adding the essential oil) is rewarding for kids to be part of the cloud dough creation.

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Sensory experience?
Kinetic Sand feels soothing and smooth.  It is fluid as the sand sticks to itself and moves gently as it falls in your hands. (This may be best seen in the video below). When you touch kinetic sand you expect it to feel like ordinary sand and there are some similarities, however it feels less grainy.  It is not sticky and wet like wet sand. Definitely a unique sensation!
Winner: Either .... A personal preference here. Both feel great to me!

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Cloud Dough shaping and moulding.
Shaping and moulding?
When pressed into a mould, cloud dough sticks together and "clumps".  You can mould small clumps and hold it gently.  Too much pressure will crumble the dough.  We could not cut out shapes or mould cloud dough in flat moulds. 
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Kinetic Sand shaping and moulding.
Shaping and moulding?
Kinetic sand moulds easily in containers and shapes may be cut out.  You can mould a solid shape and hold it gently.  If you squeeze it then the sand falls apart smoothly.  You can not pick up a shape from the tray.  

Winner: Kinetic Sand is easier to mould and shape.  Both have great properties though.

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Cloud Dough mess factor!
Mess factor?
Cloud dough can become very crumbly and messy.  Whilst the cloud dough was played in a tray, there was lots that ended up on the ground or tabletop. It did stick to fingers during play too. Tiles become very slippery after cleaning up cloud dough.  I would suggest this would be a great outdoor activity!
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Kinetic Sand mess factor!
Mess factor?
Kinetic Sand proports to be mess free. We found that it still crumbles a bit on fingers and clothing. We (ok, I) was a bit precious about it when it left the tray onto the table, ground or clothing.  It can be swept back together but cannot be picked up like playdough to re-use.  I would suggest using a "messy mat" or tablecloth on the floor so the bits that fall on the ground may be collected for re-use.
Winner: Kinetic Sand is less messy but not completely mess free.

I will leave the overall winner up to you!  Both sensory experiences are fantastic.  They have unique properties that are better felt than described.  Kinetic Sand would be a great present for a child and I can see "Cloud Dough" in preschools and childcare centres across the globe!  Try them both and let me know what you think!
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Note: Cloud dough should not be consumed.  Please supervise children during this activity and it is not recommended for children less than 3 years of age. 

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Editorial Note after publication: 
Looking for more ideas when playing with Kinetic Sand? Read about"7 invitations to play Kinetic Sand".

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Putting on shoes: Left and Right

11/3/2014

 
Here is a quick and easy way to help your child who is learning to put their shoes on independently.  
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Putting on shoes: Left and Right - A simple tip using a sticker cut in half.
I simply cut a sticker in half and place the half stickers onto the shoes.  Mr 3 matches the picture together and then puts his shoes on the correct feet.  This is an ordinary sticker (not a special shoe sticker) and when it wears out it is cheap and easy to replace.

Choose a sticker that is clear and obvious for matching together. You might have a dinosaur head and their tail, a teapot handle and spout, an elephant trunk and the elephant body, a ballerina, etc.

This simple tip will help those who have not learnt the subtlety of the left and right sides of shoes or feet.

Will a sticker help your child to put on their shoes?
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Meet my Letter Families...

9/3/2014

 
There are two different "letter families" that I use.  

Letter families are groups of letters taught at the same time for a specific purpose.  I have grouped these letter families when teaching to write NSW Foundation Font lowercase letters in print.

NOTE: This blog post will focus on letter families.  There are a few references in this blog to look out for future posts about activities that may be done to encourage learning letter families.  There is just too much information for one post about this!! Thanks for your patience.

Let me introduce you to the first letter family  {Magic C letters, Line letters and the odd ones out}.  I use this letter family when introducing or focusing on letter formation.  Magic C letters are written with the "C" component drawn first during letter formation.  Line letters are written with the "line" component drawn first during letter formation.  I further categorise these letters according to size teaching tall lines, short lines and then the tail lines. Odd ones out are letters that have no common features.
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When teaching letter formation, I use a multisensory approach. Within one therapy session, I will use a variety of different mediums to teach one group of letters.  

For example, the student may make the letters from playdough, draw them in shaving cream with a finger, paint them in rice with a paintbrush, use an ipad app and/or write them on a whiteboard and paper. 

Further explanation and examples of a multisensory approach to letter formation will be described in future posts.
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Magic C letters formed with playdough
Once letter families are introduced to children, I use several activities to help children classify the letters into the aforementioned groups.  This may include sorting out flashcards into piles, using magnetic letters to put groups on different boards, completing a find a word puzzle of one category of letters, etc.  Future posts will have photographs and further descriptions.

The letters in the second letter family are based on size {small, tall and tail letters}.  Look out for future posts for suggestions to work on letter size.

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Why letter families?
1) Letter families help children to "group" or "classify" letters.  

With the letter formation family - children group the letters not only in the way they look but also according to the first motor action it takes to write the letter {eg. draw a line down). This in turn, helps children to plan when writing as they can visualise what they need to do.

With the letter size family - children group the letters in relation to each other [eg. tall letters are twice the height of small letters}. This again helps with planning and visualisation for writing. 

2) The letter formation family may help with classification of common letters that children "reverse" such as"b" and "d".  In this instance, children learn that "b" is a line letter so the line is drawn first.  "d" is a magic c letter so the "c" is drawn first.

3) The letter size family can remind children of a letter's "starting point" when writing.  For all "tall letters" start up high (with one exception being d).

4) Letter families help children with legibility and neatness.  


Do you use letter families?  What letter families work for your children? 

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Disclaimer: The information on this site is general in nature and should be used for educational  and entertainment purposes. The activities are safe for most children, however, you should consult an Occupational Therapist or health professional to address specific movement, sensory or other medical conditions.  This blog does not replace formal therapeutic professional advice given by a health professional or medical practitioner.  Reviews and endorsements of products will only be made based on my expertise and personal opinion; and deemed worthy of such endorsement. The opinions shared in sponsored content will always be my own and not that of the advertising company or brand. Content, advertising space or posts will be clearly identified if paid, affiliated or sponsored.  Affiliate links may  be found throughout this website in advertising. This means that if you follow through with a purchase from these links, Your Kids OT will receive a percentage of the sale. Your Kids OT undertakes to meet the requirements of the "Social Media Policy" as published by Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).  Further information about this policy can be found here.

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Hi, I'm Cindy and I am an Occupational Therapist. I enjoy working creatively with children to see them reach their potential. Read more about me here.

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