Letter Formation

Choose a family of letters to practise each day.

Watch the videos to help you form the letters

 

Good morning boys and girls,

I spent yesterday making some resources to help you with this challenge.

These resources help you learn to form the

curly caterpillar family of letters.

They almost always begin with a curved line to the left.

The letter can begin at the top or sometimes in the middle but they NEVER begin at the bottom.

Before you start to form your letters warm up your hand by creating curved patterns.

Here are some ideas for covering an egg shape with curved patterns.

 

Remember to

• check your seating position, pull the chair in
• put your feet flat on the floor
• use your helping hand to hold the paper
• hold the pencil with a comfortable grip – sometimes we call this froggy fingers

These videos will help you learn how to form the curly caterpillar short letters

a c o s

These videos will help you learn how to form the long and tall caterpillar letters

d f g q

Information for parents and carers

I can write leaflet – I sent this home with P1 children in their journal

Any opportunity to practise these different strokes will help your child with their letter formations.