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Foundations for School Readiness: Visual and Fine Motor Skills (Day 2)

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1.  Grissmer, Grimm, Ayer, Murrah, and Steele (2010) found early fine motor skills in kindergarten were a predictor for: Reading and math achievement during elementary school Reading and math achievement during middle school Reading achievement in 1st grade Math achievement in 1st grade

2.  Students who struggle with fine motor skills may present as: Independent with self care skills during the school day Resistant to participating in classroom projects and crafts Confident Independent in managing classroom materials

3.  Fine motor foundational skills include: Postural Control Sensory processing Hand development All of the above

4.  Visual-motor skills can be thought of as being multifaceted and influenced by: Eye-hand coordination Motor planning Visual-perceptual skills All of the above

5.  Students use visual perceptual skills to: Gauge amount of force to use Manipulate various size objects Control facial expressions Perceive and discriminate form, space, and attributes of objects

6.  Weil and Amundson (1994) found that children who were able to copy the first nine designs on the VMI performed better on letter copying activities than those children who copied less than ____ forms. 4 7 9 10

7.  Visual figure ground is the ability to: Distinguish an object from irrelevant background information Be aware of the distinctive features of forms including shape, orientation, size, and color Recognize a complete feature from fragmented information Retain information over an adequate period of time

8.  Visual spatial skills refers to the ability to: Recognize familiar faces Understand directional concepts that organize external visual space Complete puzzles Recognize objects as they change size, shape, or orientation

9.  Poor handwriting legibility may: Cause a student to turn in longer handwritten assignments Attend more to the subject matter or to the instructor Cause a teacher to interpret the student's work as correct Cause a teacher to interpret the student as not making an effort to be neat

10.  What methods for handwriting instruction demonstrate efficacy? Teacher/OT modeling of letter formation Faded visual/verbal cueing Immediate teacher or OT feedback All of the above