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Fine motor control
By Mary
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I teach cursive in the 3rd grade as well - mandated by our curriculum. I have also had to reteach it in 5th and 6th grade as well. At the beginning of this year, I STRONGLY recommended to my students and to their parents to put away the Gameboys and N64's, the videos and the T.V. and get out the COLORING BOOKS, CRAYONS, LEGO, PAINT-BY-NUMBERS, BEADING, MODELS, ETC. It has become glaringly apparent to me that kids do not play enough to develop fine motor control.My students who struggle so much with printing and cursive have extreme trouble with FMC and are generally the very same ones who, when asked, have never or have seldom done any of the activities I listed. It's just my theory, and hasn't been proven, but I stick by it.
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