Educate graphic gestures in kindergarten to learn uppercase printed character

Abstract

It is essential, from the early stages of learning, to educate and propose a didactic of the graphic gesture, stimulating correct motor, grapho-motor and postural habits, functional executive directions of the letters and adequate spatial awareness, so that children can develop in a gradually correct automatisms, in order to acquire fluency of gesture when they reach the point of writing in capital letters and in italics, thus avoiding resorting to inadequate compensatory strategies. The choice to educate the graphic gesture in nursery school, starting from learning the gestures and movements that form the basis of capital letters, is motivated by the fact that the letters, in this specific writing character, follow simple geometric rules ( straight lines, circles and semicircles), have a single height and are detached from each other.  This last aspect facilitates, in the initial approach to learning reading and writing in nursery school, the association of a sound with each trace.