How To Develop Printing Skills with Pre-Printing Shapes

This video teaches about printing development and the 9 pre-printing shapes your child or student needs to be creating well before you ask him or her to start printing letters. The 9 pre-printing shapes are the foundation for printing letters. All too often we ask children to print letters before they are developmentally ready. Just like you would never ask a child to run before he can walk or stand, we should not be expecting children to print before they can create solid pre-printing shapes. When we do, we set the child up to instead learn bad habits that, after being practiced over and over, result in poor printing habits that are so difficult to change. But this video will teach you how to avoid this and what to do instead!