Wow, NorwayMom,that is a great site.I will pass this one on.
Mosesjr,Kindersite has lots of printouts ,I think you need to join, But its free,Its a great site for all kids,My son loves it.
Linda
Here's another site for make-your-own worksheets, for example with your child's name -- or Thomas, Percy, Diesel 10....
http://www.mymoondrops.com/info/spelling.html
Office depot has these great books by Mead, they look like writing tablets but some have the raised lines for a guideline and others have grooves (like stencils) for you to learn to write lettersBarnes and Noble has a nice educational aisle with workbooks. I've bought them there, but my son isn't into them. He uses them at school and OT sometimes, so he's probably sick of it:) I leave them out for him anyway. I have found tons of those books at the dollar stores. My kids go through alot of them.wipe off books are great. My son loves them!
I recently saw write on/wipe off books at Staples. And, I have a great website saved on "my favorites" on my work computer. I'll look it up Monday and post it for you. On this site you can print up whatever words you want in dots (i.e. your child's name). It has other cool stuff too. Darn, my old brain, I just can't remember it!
Here's a link to a related topic on this forum. Various pencil grips, handwriting-readiness activities, and programs are included there. Handwriting without tears was recommended by other parents there too.
http://www.autism-pdd.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=13418&am p;KW=handwriting
This is a programme that I found excellent when my son was first learning to spell. He loved it, its free.
There are also other free downloads but this was his favourite
http://www.rayslearning.com/lettersa.htm
also an excellent free website is
http://www.starfall.com/n/level-a/learn-to-read/load.htm?f
Enjoy!
Here is another:
http://www.kidzone.ws/prek_wrksht/index.htm
Thanks, mamajot! That link is much better than mine. You can choose 3 different fonts, upper or lower case, plus a small picture on the bottom for visual interest. Here's a direct link to the tracer pages:
http://www.kidzone.ws/tracers/index.htm
On another part of the site, you can make writing paper without letters to trace. You can choose a decoration (for example Blues Clues) plus what kinds of lines you want -- including the large rule with top, bottom and middle lines for kids just beginning to write. Here's the direct link to that part of the site:
http://www.dltk-cards.com/writingpaper/
Thanks again.
Norway - it is a cool site, isn't it? We use a few things from that site for Anthony's ABA therapy.
Like some of the others have said, I have seen these, both books and wipe-offs, at Dollar Tree dollar stores.bumpjust what a was looking for mama, thanks a LOT!!![QUOTE=NorwayMom]Here's another site for make-your-own worksheets, for example with your child's name -- or Thomas, Percy, Diesel 10....
http://www.mymoondrops.com/info/spelling.html
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norway, how i get thomas or percy?
You can type in any word or words, including train names, on either of mymoondrop or kidzone, and the website will create a tracing worksheet for that word(s). The kidzone website has some pictures to spice things up, but no trains, I'm afraid.