We used kumon mazes (not really mazes, just beginning pencil excercizes), kumon alphabet, and kumon telling time, we have kumon division but haven't used it yet. The maze book and the alphabet really jump started his handwriting nicely! The book store in town closed down or else we probably would have used more of them. How I started the book was sticking my finger in the maze in front of my sons marker (markers are easier to start with). I convinced him to follow my finger with his marker through the maze. After a while he knew how to do the pages himself. The pages get really hard by the end so we had to put it up for a little while at one point. I would recommend the kumon mazes for anyone getting ready to write.
