Where can i buy work books to help with writing?

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Im looking to buy some works books or something to help my son he is 4 soon and cant write at all and can count past 3.
You know the type that has words written in dots and you have to write over the dots, or anything else that would help

thanks

whsmiths do some called "gold star" books age from pre school (3-5) they do writing, maths and counting as well as others. My DS loves them
HTH

great thank i'll have a look

i also have seen them in toysrus

I wouldn't worry about books yet. Just do loads of painting and drawing with really interesting pens, pencils etc.Just encourage him to be excited by markmaking. He is still very very young to be writing.

It only got me thinking when i got lots of christmas cards from his nursery friends and they had all wrote their own names on them and my ds had scribbled all over the card. Im not worried just wanted to help him out a little

If you are really keen to get him to write, try writing in glue and shaking glitter all over it, or get a tray of sand and encourage him to write his name in that. I just feel that they are young for such a short amount of time. They have got years of workbooks ahead of them. We all want our kids to do well, but try not to look at what others are doing and use that as a benchmark. They all develop at such different rates.

elc do jolly phonics workbooks

To strenghten up the muscles needed for writing get him to climb and hang at the park (no really - these are really good for pre-writing skills). Also open and close a clothes peg, model make with playdoh, flicking games, threading games, painting etc are also really good and prehaps more benefit to him then those books. By stengheing up the right muscles you will put him in good stead for starting school.

Oh and the trouble with lots of these pre-made books are the spaces the children are meant to write in are far too small!

Also as for the counting - buy a book of counting rhymes and sing and play those with him. Count steps, count cars, counting raisons etc. Make it fun - especially important for boys (not to be sexist)!