Handwriting requires numerous skills, including vision, eye-hand coordination, muscle memory, posture, body control, pencil grab, and letter production. The pre-writing skills help develop these abilities required for handwriting. The five pre-writing skills are visual perception, spatial awareness, motor planning, hand-eye coordination, and practice making letters and words. 1. Visual Perception: Handwriting relies heavily on your vision. You need to be able to see what you're writing to edit errors before they happen. This skill needs to be developed through good nutrition (more about this topic later) and adequate sleep hours (more about this topic as well). 2. Spatial Awareness: Being able to visualize where objects are located in relation to one another is essential for successful handwriting. Using the floor plan as an example, you would need to be able to visualize where different rooms are in relation to one another so you can write properly guided by what you see on paper. This skill can be developed through play with toys that have various shapes and sizes or by learning how to use maps and globes. 3. Motor Planning: Before you can write anything, you first need to plan out how it's going to look.