Path Ways®: Pre-Writing Booklets

Path Ways® are prewriting workbook booklets designed to help students practice the lines and shapes suggestive of writing readiness. Once children master those lines and shapes, they are ready to learn how to make individual letters. There are literal pathways on each successive page that get thinner and thinner as students get better at keeping their shapes aligned. Here’s how the books work:

• Students choose a shape from the top or side of each page to repeat inside the pathway.
• They choose different colored pencils for each shape and use them in sequence to follow the path.
• After 6-8 repetitions of the sequence (AAAA), the shapes progress from simple pattern repetition to more complex patterns, including ABAB, ABB, ABC, and AAB.

Please note that you can use these bound pre-writing worksheets with individual students or share one book between 2-6 students.

This range of handwriting practice workbooks comes in a series of six individual books of varying difficulty levels. The books get more difficult as the paths narrow and patterns get more complicated. The booklets of bound pre-writing worksheets include:

• Book 1: Vertical and Horizontal
• Book 2: Curves and Circles
• Book 3: Crosses and Ladders
• Book 4: Squares and Rectangles
• Book 5: Right and Left Diagonals
• Book 6: Triangles and X’s

In addition to practicing making the 9 lines and shapes that compose each letter of the alphabet, PathWays teaches sequencing, patterns, shapes, and many other early education themes, such as school, animal habitats, tools, baby animals, places we live, things with wheels, food, and letters and numbers.