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Penmanship
Penmanship
We use the Fundations handwriting program. This program, promotes proper pencil grip, letter formation and sitting position. Please practice these skills at home.
The Fundations program refers to the top line as the "sky line", the dotted line as "the plane line", and the bottom line as "the grass line". Finally, "the worm line" is used by lower case g, j, p, q, y.
SE_1-2-3_Lets_Write (2).pdfLower Case Letter Formation
Lower Case Letter Formation
Upper Case Letter Formation
Upper Case Letter Formation
LetterFormationGuideLC Fundations.pdfuppercase letter formation guide1.pdfProducts That May Help Build Your Child's Penmanship Skills at Home
Products That May Help Build Your Child's Penmanship Skills at Home
Many children struggle with proper pencil grip and letter formation. These are products we have found helpful for some children. We do not recommend them for all students, but if you are looking for ways to support your child, you may find some of these products useful.
- Flip It Crayons Crayons that help promote proper grip.
- Pencil Grips There are many types. Different students respond to different types. This is one possible type.
- Golf Pencils Sometimes smaller pencils are easier for little hands to grip properly.
- Playdough Working with playdough or clay will help strengthen hand muscles needed for writing.
Reading Comprehension
Reading Comprehension
It is important to read aloud to your child daily. Reading and discussing fiction and nonfiction materials with your child that are above their independent reading level (too difficult for them to read by themselves) will promote an understanding of books and a lifelong love of reading.
Fabulous Four Friends
Fabulous Four Friends
Fabulous Four Friends Finger Puppets
At Proctor, we use the Fab Four reading strategies beginning in kindergarten and lasting through fifth grade. Good readers naturally use all four reading strategies every time they read. For kindergarteners, it is wonderful to introduce these strategies by helping them pretend to be the different Fab Four Friends.
Paula Predictor Paula tells what she thinks might happen next in the story or after the story is over. Paula predicts things based on what has already happened and things that are believable.
Help your child be Paula Predictor by looking at the cover and/or pictures and completing one on more of the following sentences:
- I predict...because...
- I think...will happen because...
- I think I will learn...because...
Clara Clarifier Clara figures out unknown information and words in the story. She chops up words looking for sounds she knows and she rereads sentences that do not make sense to her.
Help your child be Clara Clarifier by using these sentence prompts to make sense of reading.
- • I don’t understand..., so I...
- A word that I don’t understand is..., so I..., to figure it out.
Sammy Summarizer Sammy loves to retell the important events in stories in order often using a "five finger retell" (Characters, setting, beginning, middle and end).
Help your child be Sammy Summarizer.
- This was about...
- First...Next...Then...Finally...
Quincy Questioner Quincy asks questions before, after and while he is reading a story.
Help your child be Quincy Questioner.
- Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?
- I wonder...
Developing Student Reading Skills
Developing Student Reading Skills
Home Reading Program Beginning in October, your child's teacher will provide leveled books for your child to read at home. This program is key to helping your child develop reading skills. Please help your child read and return his or her home reading book daily when possible. (The goal is to read and return a book at least four times each week.)
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