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Helping students improve gross and fine motor
skillsFirst Nation Student Success Program
Bimose Tribal Council
What’s ahead? Description of gross motor skills Gross motor activities Strategies 5 Minute movement breaks Fine motor skills Trouble with pencil skills What to do now?
What do motor skill dysfunction look like?
1. Poor sense of body position
2. Weak kinaesthetic sense
3. Inaccuracy of visual-spatial processing
4. Ineffective verbal-motor integration
5. Poor motor planning
What do motor skill dysfunction look like? (cont’d)
6. Poor coordination of muscle groups7. Motor memory weakness 8. Tone control weakness9. Poor monitoring
Famous people with difficulties with motor skills
What can we do?
acknowledge effort help the child build self-rewards focus on development build the motor skills use their strengths to enrich their
development
What do gross motor activities involve? Mobility Flexibility Balance
Coordination Endurance Core strength
Reminder!
Be safe! Open play space Peers to interact with Adult supervision Children acquire motor skills at
their own pace.
What do I want to do?Shoot a basket
Strategy: Break instructions up into steps
Have a plan about the actions.Plan: stand, look, throw ball
Did the plan work?Check: did the ball go into the hoop?
Try it out!Do: stand, look, throw ball
Strategies…
1. Participation over performance2. Outline boundaries3. Rules of the game4. Team Selection5. Discussion Time
In-class 5 Minute Movement Breaks
Silly Walks or Animal walks
Action Songs Stretches at the desk Following a line Simon says…
Small Motors Skills…
small muscle movements: those that occur in the finger, in coordination with the eyes.
ACTIVITY “Write your name”
Characteristics of students struggling with small motor skills
Printing and writing legibly.
Daily living Fatigue Disinterested
Pencil trouble: Shaky or uneven lines Scissor skills Pencil Grip Letter orientation Motor Skills
Give opportunities for performing fine motor tasks
Pencil grips Cats cradle Playdoe Paper, Rock,
scissors Finger sign
language: Alphabet
Referring Children to Occupational Therapy
Gross Motor functions
Adaptation Self-Care Hand-dominence Perceptual skills
Kenora Association for Community Living Nuala Reid 467-5225
The End
Resourceshttp://www.capitalhealth.ca/EspeciallyFor/OTOnHand/GrossMotorCoordination/default.htm
http://www.hwtears.com/educators/teachers