Contributions for Psychomotor Education, Learning of Reading and Writing Processes, and Assimilation of Body Scheme in 5-year-old Children

This paper emphasizes on the importance that has the motor skills in students of Primary Education. It aims to raise the awareness of the school environment and the family about the relationship between motor skills and student learning. To this end a number of variables is analyzed as the basic movement patterns, laterality and reading and writing processes. The basic movement patterns are measured through test Santiuste, Martin Lobo and Ayala (2005) that values creeping, crawling, running, unset, race, muscle tone and postural control. With lateral dominance information is obtained from the dominant side in vision, hearing, and PEDIS handedness, evaluated neuropsychological test Neuropsychology and Education Institute, adapted by Martin Lobo, Garcia Castellon, Rodriguez, and Vallejo (2011) and reading and writing processes through a dictate of vowels, consonants and numbers. These tests have been applied to a sample of 30 students from 5 years old the last year of kindergarten. The results indicate that there is a correlation between adequate psychomotor development and learning proper processes reading and writing.