Learners at this stage are ready to begin exploring tasks requiring eye-hand coordination and activities focusing on fine motor development. Products in this stage address the following skills:

• Mastering drawing pre-writing shapes (vertical line, horizontal line, cross, square, X, triangle)
• learning to put simple shapes together to form pictures
• learning to sequence
• gaining increased skills and confidence with controlling their writing implement
• recognizing and adhering to visual boundaries for coloring and writing
• developing a proper writing grasp
• gradually increasing wrist, hand and finger strength and endurance
• learning to stabilize with their non dominant hand while coloring, writing and cutting
• developing good writing posture

	Path Quest™ Strengthen the visual perceptual skills needed for proper alignment of letters and words, memorization of sight words, proper letter formation, direction following and spelling with Path Quest™.  Complete 4 different quests with a total of 12 adventures while strengthening eye-hand coordination and visual perception.  Kids can't wait for the next adventure!  40 sheets.  Patent Pending.  $6.99
	Snip-It!™ NAPPA (National Parenting Publications Awards) has honored Snip It!™ with the 2010 Gold Award,  its highest honor, in the "Parenting Resources" category.  This 34-page workbook helps teach snipping and cutting skills in developmental progression. Builds fine motor skills and eye-hand coordination while introducing children to pre-writing shapes. Many of the skills needed to cut are fundamental in writing including the use of two hands working together, eye/hand coordination and visual perception skills. Snip It!™ allows your child to create art projects with snippings. It features kiss cut paper with adhesive for less mess and increased convenience. Bold lines help to increase success with cutting on the line for your young learner.  Projects get progressively more challenging by adding shapes to pictures and then following a model to keep you child interested and challenged. Patent Pending. $8.49
	Connect with Color™ Connect with Color™ is a dot-to-dot using color sequences which doesn’t require letter or number recognition. Dot-to-dots are used as a pre-writing activity to encourage pencil control, visual motor control, sequencing, multi-step task completion and visual closure (the ability to recognize a partially competed picture). Includes 22 activity sheets.  Patent Pending. $4.79
	Shape Builders™ Stencil Kit Shape Builders Stencil Kit calls for stenciling prewriting shapes in 2+ combinations to construct various simple pictures shown in a model. Finding the proper shape among similar shapes requires visual discrimination and visual form constancy Placing the shape in the correct orientation in relation to paper and other shapes strengthens visual spatial relationships Placing the shapes adjacent to each other to complete a picture facilitates visual closure skills Holding the stencil requires good hand strength and bilateral coordination
The stencil features non-skid stabilization “buttons”, soft stabilization pads with hand cue to help user identify where to hold stencil and tactile feedback from pads helping the user know where to exert pressure Shape Builders™ Stencil Kit uses components of pre-writing shapes to reinforce components needed to form capital letters of alphabet. Includes 30 activity sheets, the stencil and a reusable storage pouch. Patent Pending. $10.99
	Shape Builders™ Learn to Draw Shape Builders™ Learn to Draw demonstrates proper writing habits of making vertical and diagonal lines from top-to-bottom, circles in a counter clockwise direction from top and horizontal lines from left-to-right further prepares a child for letter, word and sentence writing. Utilizes all pre-writing shapes that are necessary to form the capital letters of the alphabet and allows children to construct their first recognizable drawings. Includes 21 activity sheets. Patent Pending. Addresses the following skills: Sequencing and direction following Pre-writing shape formation Construction skills for pre-writing Pencil Control Beginning Drawing Skills Paper Stabilization $4.79
	Color Bound™ Color Bound™ is a tracing and coloring tablet featuring raised boundaries providing tactile feedback to the child to help stay within the lines. Coloring within boundaries facilitates the development of visual discrimination and writing utensil control. Tracing around an area before coloring increases a child’s success of staying within the lines. Controlling a writing instrument within narrow pathways is a pre-requisite for accurate letter placement on lined paper, increases precision at fingertips for decreased letter size and improves visual tracking. Pre-writing shapes are also incorporated into the designs. Includes 21 activity sheets. Patent Pending. $6.99