Pre-Scissor Skills: Skill Starters for Motor Development

Klein, Marsha Dunn

ISBN 10: 0761631011 / ISBN 13: 9780761631019

Published by Communications Service

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pre-Scissor Skills: Skill Starters for Motor Development
• Publisher: Communications Service
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761631011
• ISBN 13: 9780761631019
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

Cutting with scissors can be fun! In this third edition of her Pre-Scissor Skills, author Marsha Dunn Klein, M.Ed., OTR/L, shows teachers, parents, and therapists how to provide positive learning experiences when teaching this skill to preschool children and developmentally delayed students.

Children learn new tasks in stages or developmental steps. First, they learn the easy parts of a task and then build on those skills to learn the more complex parts of the activity. If they don't learn the basics, youngsters later become frustrated when expected to perform the complex steps. When children are frustrated, they quickly lose interest in learning.

This 90-page workbook is for teachers, parents, and therapists to use for independent study. It begins by listing specific objectives. Ms. Klein reviews how children normally acquire new motor skills. She then applies this information to the developmental stages of scissor use and how children learn to use scissors.

By properly assessing the skill level of each student before initiating a task, the teacher, parent, or clinician can begin teaching at the student's current level of performance. Whoever is teaching the student must also provide the adaptations necessary for the child to succeed at the new task. Ms. Klein describes some games and activities in which children can practice scissor skills.

She also shares techniques and scissor adaptations, and provides guidelines for creating an individual pre-scissor program for each child. Throughout the text, Ms. Klein provides frequent probes-questions that help teachers, parents, and therapists reinforce the information discussed. Illustrations help the reader visualize the activities being discussed. This valuable resource ends with a test to help teachers, parents, and clinicians assess what they have learned.