Books and Videos

Books for teaching and practicing handwriting:

LeftHand N.Z.’s

“Write-on Wipe-off Workbook for teaching Handwriting Skills to LEFT-HANDED Children”

would be the best place to start.  You will find full details about this resource here…...

Ideally suited for left-handed children from age 4 and upwards.

Code: WOWO - Price: $32.00 NZD

“Pencil Exercises for Beginners”

This in-house publication was created specifically to compliment the new ergonomic pencils. 

The target audience is children from 3 to 5 years old and there are 20 jam-packed pages with more than 20 exercises to help very young children with pencil control, pencil accuracy and the development of the fine motor skills needed for handwriting. 

There are some special instructions for parents of left-handed children but apart from this page, these exercises are suitable for all children within this age group. 

It’s available as a pdf file download (3.77MB)

Code: Pencilpdf              Price: $6.80

It is also available as a hard copy - that is printed out in colour, and bound with a laminated front cover.

Code: PencilHC               Price: $25.00

More information here….

“Left Hand Writing Skills” Book 1: Fine Motor Skills

This is the first of a series of three books written by Mark and Heather Stewart with worksheets for the young left-hander and brief guidelines for parents and teachers.  Book 1 offers a colourful variation to our WOWO Workbook above and more practice in forming the letters of the alphabet and numbers.  The size of the letters makes it ideally suited for lefty children 3 to 4 years old.

Code: IMP46          Price: $35.00

Thereafter we recommend……….

Book 2 of the “Left-Hand Writing Skills” series

“Formation and Flow”

This workbook focuses on cursive writing and joining letters.  This book is great for children who have already mastered the formation of letters and are now working on joining their letters when writing.  It is ideally suited for lefty children from about 8 to 9 years old and upwards.

 Code: IMP47 - Price: $35.00 NZD

And after this there is……...

Book3 - “Left-Hand Writing Skills”

“Smudgefree Writing.”

A delightful inspiring book for a left-handed child that already enjoys writing and for an older child you are trying to encourage to do more handwriting practice!  The exercises in this book are developed around the history of handwriting.

Please allow 2 weeks for delivery.

Code: IMP48 - Price: $35.00 NZD

For teaching the letters of the alphabet and names of animals.

The beautifully illustrated book “Alf and Bet learn their ABC” is wonderful for teaching the letters of the alphabet and names of animals.  Alf is a left-hander and Bet is a right-hander - a really delightful book that your child will love!  Suitable for both lefties and righties.

In stock.

Code: IMP65          Price: $19.00  

Free Information Sheet for parents and teachers of left-handed children

LeftHand N.Z. has produced a two page (A4) Information Sheet called: 

“Vital information for teachers and parents of left-handed children.” 

We will provide further details soon about how you can get your FREE copy of this publication.

A guide for parents and teachers of left-handers...

“Your Left-Handed Child - Making things easy for left-handers in a right-handed world”

This is a practical and comprehensive guide to the challenges your left-handed child may encounter from their first years right through school life and beyond. From basic skills like dressing and handwriting, to learning new sports and musical instruments, this beautifully illustrated book explains common problems caused by right handed bias in equipment and layout and offers ways to help your child harness their natural creativity and problem-solving skills to become adaptable and confident in a right-handed world.  Written by Lauren Milsom, a left-hander and leading expert on handedness, it gives a fantastic insight into a left-hander's perspective, covering aspects such as:

· Development of left-handedness

· Pre-school development

· Strategies for everyday life

· Left-handedness in school

· Sport

· Music

· Practical and educational resources

128 pages full colour, published by Hamlyn 2008.
ISBN 978-0-600-61480-7.

Please allow 2 weeks for delivery.

Code: IMP66          Price: $50.00  

For lefty handcrafters and dressmakers….

“Left-Handed Sewing” - by Sally  Cowan

 A handy little book for the left-hander who is into sewing.  Filled with practical tips on how to easily adapt to right-handed diagrams, tools and instructional materials.  Nearly 100 line drawings illustrate the instructions.  All the basic hand stitches are covered including basting, blanket stitch, blind hemstitch, running stitch, cross stitch, chain stitch etc and a whole chapter is devoted to how to sew feathers, sequins, beads and other trims on by hand from the left-handed perspective.

Please allow 2 weeks for delivery.

Code: IMP54          Price: $20.00  

Videos

VHS Video: “Left-Handed Children: A Guide for Teachers and Parents”

This video provides visual guidance and insights about what it means to be left-handed and how you can help your left-handed child. 

Code: IMP17          Price: $50.00  

Universal - or “Lefty” Playing Cards

Perhaps you haven’t noticed that most playing cards only have the number on two diagonal corners and that the numbers are covered up when fanned in the left hand!

These “Lefty” Playing Cards have the number on all four corners, so that everyone can play and see the numbers equally well.

Quality cards - made in Belgium with a linen finish.

Code: IMP39          Price: $9.00  

An informative article about handwriting for you to download and read. . .

“Help with handwriting”

written by

Nikki Soames

This was published

in the

NZ SPELD Record.

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