In this video, I’m sharing the exact, developmentally appropriate way I teach letter writing and name writing in preschool and pre-k—without jumping straight to worksheets. I always start with fine motor first because hand strength, coordination, and confidence have to come before neat letter formation. I walk you through the kinds of tools I keep in rotation (markers, crayons, paintbrushes, lacing beads, pipettes, and play dough) and the simple hand-strength work kids need every single week—squeezing, poking, rolling, and pinching. Then I show how I move from “pre-writing” into actual writing in a way that feels doable for kids. We practice line formation first (straight lines, curves, zig-zags, circles), then add easy tracing with highlighter pages or quick homemade templates. From there, I introduce hands-on letter formation with paint, poke pages, dough letters, and big sheet-protector writing surfaces before we ever shrink things down. Finally, I model name writing step-by-step on a whiteboard, and I talk about what encouragement really looks like—lots of patience, celebrating progress, and meeting each learner where they are. My biggest takeaway: keep fine motor tools in your writing center and across the classroom, and the writing will follow naturally.