Free Prewriting Practice Printable Dice – A Fun Fine Motor Prewriting Center

The Prewriting Practice printable dice can make prewriting loads of fun for kids!

This is a great prewriting practice center. You have two prewriting practice dice with different prewriting strokes for kids to make or trace.

You can change up how they do their prewriting practice with this simple prewriting practice dice activity.

The Prewriting Practice Printable Dice is a great addition to the prewriting printables on the site.

So what is pre-writing?

Pre-writing is the skill to build to work up to writing letters and other types of writing. It also teaches the direction that we read.

You start out with thick prewriting lines and work to thinner prewriting lines. Then to prewriting patterns that work into writing letters.

Prewriting Practice Printable Dice & Prewriting Mats

The Prewriting Practice Printable Dice help kids work on prewriting in a fun prewriting center. You have prewriting strokes on dice, prewriting pages and prewriting mat printables.

These prewriting printables are great for kids in preschool (ages 3 to 4), prek (ages 4 to 5), and kindergarten as a way to change up prewriting activities.

Prewriting Practice Dice

You have two sets of dice that are cube dice inserts or foldable dice. Each of the dice has different prewriting strokes on each of the dice. They are fun and different from just tracing lines.

Prewriting Practice Dice Mats

You have several prewriting help mats. You have two prewriting mats for kids to put the prewriting practice dice and then below write or draw what they rolled on the dice. These mats make great fine motor centers as well.

There is also a prewriting mat that just has six square for kids to write the dice strokes.

Prewriting Tracing Mat Printables

You have two tracing mats that match the dice, plus there is a mat with all the dice inserts for prewriting. And I love that these are black and white so you can use color copy paper with these prewriting mats! This has all the prewriting strokes from the dice on the mats.

Each page matches one set of the prewriting dice.

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Things to use with the Prewriting Practice Printable Dice

There are links to all the items used with this prewriting printable.

• printer
• white copy paper
• white cardstock
• color cardstock
• colored paper
• cube dice
• laminator
• laminating pouches
• pencil
• pencil grip – This is great to help kids hold pencils!
• dry erase markers
• sheet protectors

Ways to Use the Prewriting Practice Dice Printable

You will see A few ways you can use this prewriting printable.

Using the Prewriting Printable Dice in a Center

You can use either dice for this prewriting center idea but you can see the cube dice roll and then you draw or make what you see on the die below the dice.

You can see how the smile came up and then draw the smile in the area below with dry erase markers. Then you wipe it clean and start again.

You can see the second prewriting mat here. You roll the prewriting practice die or even the small folding prewriting die and then draw the matching picture on the squares below. You will have space for three rolls on the page.

Using Playdough with the Prewriting Mat & Dice

Now these mats are also great to change up from prewriting to using playdough to make the picture or lines on the die. It works for those kid who might not be ready for just draw the prewriting lines and pictures. But still lets you use the prewriting printable.

This works best with the bigger mat. Kids roll the ide and then use playdough snakes to match the prewriting picture.

Roll the Prewriting Practice Dice & Trace the Prewriting Mat Worksheets

You can have kid roll the dice and then trace one of the matching prewriting squares. You can see there are two places to trace for each side of the prewriting practice die. Both prewriting practice dice have matching prewriting worksheets.

You can see that we put the prewriting practice worksheet in a sheet protector and used dry erase markers to trace the page over and over.

Use the Prewriting Practice Inserts with Mat

You can just use the prewriting practice inserts without putting them in a dice. You can have them go through all the pictures and write them on the practice mat. This is a fun fine motor center idea because they will write six different strokes on the mat. And all the kids will have the same pictures but might do them in different orders as well.

And you can mix and match the prewriting pictures between the two dice.

Prewriting Center Idea With A Prewriting Tracing Worksheet

Now the fun part of having the prewriting dice is that you can be flexible with how you use them. You can print all the cube dice on cardstock and cut them out. Then put the prewriting practice squares on a ring.

Then kids can flip through the cards and trace the matching picture on the page! A fun way to work on prewriting and they have 12 different pictures to trace on the prewriting worksheet.

What you will find in the Free Prewriting Practice Dice Printable:

• 2 prewriting practice folding dice
• 2 prewriting practice cube dice inserts
• 2 Prewriting Practice page with trace to match each set of dice cubes
• One set of prewriting page with all the dice options
• Landscape blank page for prewriting cube dice
• Portrait blank page for use with prewriting dice
• 2 prewriting practice center pages
• 12 pages of printables

Click here to get your copy of the Free Prewriting Practice Dice

Fine Motor Prewriting Printable Set

Looking for more pre-writing printables or want it just ready to print and use. Then check out the Fine Motor Prewriting Printable Set.

This set includes some of the printables above in an easy no-prep printable set. Plus additional and new printables. The set includes big and thin dashed lines, no-prep prewriting worksheets, prewriting strips, easy reader books, and more!

What you will find in the Fine Motor Prewriting Printable Set:

• Big Solid and Dashes Prewriting Lines with a start and stop.
• Big Solid and Dashes Prewriting mixed with start and stop
• Thin Prewriting lines with start and stop.
• Thin Lines Prewriting mixed with start and stop.
• Prewriting Practice with prewriting strokes in guidelines with start and stop.
• Prewriting Practice with Patterns with prewriting strokes – Large Font
• Prewriting Practice prewriting strokes single repeated prewriting
• Prewriting Practice with prewriting fonts all strokes together
• Prewriting Practice Patterns with prewriting strokes – Single Pattern Repeated
• Prewriting Practice Patterns with prewriting strokes – mixed patterns together
• Prewriting Practice Patterns Finish the Patterns with prewriting fonts – mixed patterns together
• Prewriting Practice Spin & Trace Prewriting Fonts
• Prewriting Strips: Big Solid Prewriting Lines with Stop & Start – Color and Black & White
• Prewriting Strips: Big Dashed Prewriting Lines with Stop & Start – Color and Black & White
• Prewriting Strips: Prewriting thin lines with start and stop – Color and Black & White
• Prewriting Strips: Prewriting Practice with prewriting strokes in guidelines with start and stop – Color and Black & White
• Prewriting Strips: Prewriting Practice with prewriting strokes in guidelines.
• Prewriting Strips: Prewriting Practice Patterns
• Prewriting Easy Reader Books Big Dashes Lines – Single Print
• Prewriting Easy Reader Books Big Dashes Lines – Teacher Print
• Prewriting Easy Reader Books Thin Dashes Lines – Single Print
• Prewriting Easy Reader Books Thin Dashes Lines – Teacher Print
• 174 pages
• Price: $8

More Prewriting Printables For Kids

The Fine Motor Prewriting Set has 174 pages of different types of prewriting. You have prewriting thick lines, prewriting thin lines, prewriting start and stop, prewriting patterns, prewriting tracing strips, prewriting easy reader books and more. All with the idea of giving you the most prewriting activities altogether! A great collection of prewriting worksheets.

Prewriting Practice Solid & Dashed Printables has thick lines in a solid line and a thick dashed line for kids that need bigger lines. Plus has a start and stop for kids to use.

Prewriting Practice Printables has thin lines for kids to trace. There are several different lines to work on. There is only one line type on each page.

Q-Tip Prewriting Printables is a wonderful fine motor activity with prewriting with small circles for kids to use q-tips on.

Prewriting Dot Marker Printables is great for fine motor development of matching the dot marker to the circles in different line patterns.

Check out all the fun Prewriting Printables and Activities on 3 Dinosaurs.

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