{"id":12445,"date":"2023-02-28T12:44:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T07:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learn.toddleapp.com\/?post_type=resource_post&#038;p=12445"},"modified":"2026-07-09T13:27:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T07:57:29","slug":"checklists-for-fine-motor-development","status":"publish","type":"resource_post","link":"https:\/\/www.toddleapp.com\/learn\/resource-post\/checklists-for-fine-motor-development\/","title":{"rendered":"<b>Checklists for Fine Motor Development<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The mighty fingers of preschoolers need to be developed and nurtured with care during their formative years. As Early Years educators you have a profound role in building, strengthening, and monitoring the development of their&nbsp;fine motor muscles. With this in mind, we have created these beautifully illustrated teacher checklists to help you map the fine motor development of your young learners.<br><br>These checklists will serve as your guide as you observe children, identify their challenges, then create opportunities to enhance fine motor development. What&#8217;s more, the additional self-assessment checklists will facilitate children in monitoring and celebrating their own progress. With easy-to-understand &#8216;I can&#8217; statements, agency is enhanced, as pre-schoolers develop understandings of their own learning journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group learnings has-background\" style=\"background-color:#fff6f3\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-use-these-checklists-to\"><strong>Use these checklists to:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Understand the developmental milestone continuum for learners aged 1-6<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Identify challenges and create possibilities<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Document concerns<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Encourage learners to identify their strengths and weaknesses through self assessing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":12500,"template":"resource\/resource_post_container.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":true},"categories":[299],"tags":[405,319],"coauthors":[117],"class_list":["post-12445","resource_post","type-resource_post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-early-years","tag-early-years","tag-english"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - 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