Fine Motor Skills are also called Pre-writing skills. It is essential for a child to be able to develop the ability to hold and move a pencil fluently and effectively and therefore produce legible writing,' (Hamming, Roderick, Richens, 2016). When these skills are underdeveloped, it can lead to frustration, resistance to writing, low self-esteem and poor academic performance. Writing legibly requires well- developed fine motor skills, which improve the ability to control small precise movements with the fingers, wrists and hands. Tracing shapes and patterns, joining the dots, copying lines, drawing and coloring are good pre-writing tasks for your child. Working with play dough, writing or drawing on a vertical surface like a blackboard, using tweezers and tongs, sliding beads on a string, writing in the sand and cutting out figures using scissors are other examples of Pre-writing tasks. Lots of children develop these skills in their everyday life without thought or intention. More and more children are entering child care / preschool in the years prior to Kindergarten where their cares make sure children are developing their fine motor skills. Some children move through the development stages easily, but others do not.
Children who find it hard to develop their Fine Motor Skills need guidance from their parents and teachers, as K-12 Curriculum requires differentiated activities. The researcher focusses on the needs of Kindergarten and how they can easily enhance their fine motor skills by the help of Pre-Writing Manipulative Materials. This study focuses on the Kindergarten pupils at East Bagong Barrio Elementary School. It is about observing pupils with difficulties in writing and what Pre-Writing Manipulative Materials that teachers will be used to develop their fine motor skills through the use of Pre-Writing Manipulative Materials.
According to Ross, R., & Kurtz, R., Manipulatives have been chosen to support the lesson's objective. Significant plans have been made to orient students to the manipulatives and corresponding classroom procedures. The lesson involves active participation of each student and the lesson plan includes procedures for evaluation that reflect an emphasis on the development of reasoning skills.