Handwriting Resources

In our class, many students are working on handwriting. Here are some of the resources we use from Wilson Reading & Fundations. When working at home with your student, a few things to keep in mind:

• We want letters to be formed from top to bottom. Remind students to start at the top!

• Start with large motor: write your letters as large as you can, whether you are tracing, skywriting, using chalk, or anything else you can think of to make your child move their entire arm to form each letter.

• Move to small motor: once students have a grasp of the letter formation with their large motor skills, move to small motor skills: writing with pencils, pens, markers, crayons, tracing in sand, shaving cream, bubbles in the bathtub. Anything to make it fun!

• Use the cues to help students remember how to form letters. Use the cues of skyline, plane line, grass line, and worm line to help students recall the correct formation and place each letter correctly on the page.

Letter Formation Guides

Click the button below for the letter formation cues. We begin with lowercase letters, then move to uppercase. Try not to get ahead of the class! Learning the correct formation, using multisensory strategies, and going from large to small motor are all important steps to make sure your student does not internalize incorrect letter formations.

Handwriting Paper

Print handwriting paper here by clicking the buttons below or request some be sent home in your homework folder.