Sports that Contribute to the Development of Fundamental Skills
There are unlimited opportunities for Canadian children to learn the physical literacy skills that will enable them to engage in health enhancing sport activities or to pursue their dreams of athletic excellence. Many national and provincial sport organizations have programs - and more are being added all the time. Sometimes its not easy to work out what physical literacy skills your child will learn from programs in a particular sport, and to help you, the chart on the next page has been created.
There are a couple of things to remember when you use it: This is not a definitive list since programs change all the time. So use it as a rough guide only. Not everyone agrees on exactly which sport programs best develop which physical literacy skills. Our aim is to be roughly right about the “Big Picture” rather than exactly right about any specific skill or sport.
Figure 16 Sports that Contribute to the Development of Fundamental Skills