Description
The Dexterity Diaries is a bundle of related short stories about fine motor skills. These are activities like cutting, folding, placing beads on a string, picking up small or flimsy objects, etcetera. Children need to train these a lot to get good at them. Additionally, those skills are often required for playing board/video games, puzzles, or escape rooms, all of which are very common products at our educational store.
These stories help showcase these skills and get kids excited to practice them. Every chapter focuses on a new “superhero” whose powers are related to a skill. For example, someone who can fold anything … and if they do it right, the thing they created becomes real. Another fun character can cut through anything, and if their cuts were precise enough, what they cut out becomes real too.
As a villain threatens this extraordinary world, the heroes must work together and combine their skills to defeat them!
The stories are simple and standalone, allowing you to read them to your child (or a classroom) one at a time. Near the end, the stories reference each other more and more and start telling a bigger story. (They also become slightly longer each time as a result.) It is, therefore, still recommended to read them in order (and without too much time between chapters).
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Product Contents
- 14 short stories exploring loads of fine motor skills to practice (cutting, folding, etc)
- The stories are included as a
.pdffile (most suitable for printing) and.epubfile (most suitable for ereaders). - The PDF has pages in “Half Letter” format (near A5; typical for books), but any computer system should allow printing 2 pages at once on a single A4/Letter page.
- Bingo Cards (for Apprentices to cross off things that appear as they listen to the story)
Fine Details
| Detail | Value |
| Categories | fine-motor-skills |
| Language | en |
| Level | 1 |
| Subject | skills |
Subject: Skills
The curriculum is split into six main subjects that align with your typical school subjects.
This resource is part of the Skills subject. Below is a summary:
This subject teaches practical and physical skills. It starts with core skills like pencil control or doing the dishes, then moves into preparing for specific jobs and tasks later on.
Faction: Explorers
This resource is part of the Explorers Faction.
But that's just one way to teach and explore its topic(s)!
You can always move to a different Faction to find a more effective way to teach the same topic.
Played a quiz? Try a game! Played a game? Try an escape room! And so on.
For example,
Charm: Novel
This product is part of the Novel charm.
Visit its main page to learn more about what that means. Below is a summary:
Novels are written stories. We provide them in both digital format (ideal for ereaders) and physical format (ideal for printing).
Many of our stories can be bought in bookstores or rented from libraries too. Most of them center around an educational topic and explore that in tense and exciting ways.
Spell: My First Fine Motor Skills
This resource is part of the My First Fine Motor Skills topic (or "spell").
Fine motor skills refers to small, fine, detailed movements. Moving a toe, moving a finger, grabbing something small. These skills set us apart from other animals, which is why they are less natural and take longer to learn. A child must typically train them for several years before they can comfortably hold a pen.
Use the buttons below to navigate to the previous or next topic in the curriculum.