Letters

You can slow down the learning by pausing the videos and providing more time to practise.

If your child is finding forming the letters difficult, try gently placing your hand over theirs and move their hand for them, so that they can feel the movement.

Sometimes writing the letter on the page and asking your child to trace over the letter can assist with learning the formation.

Find these letters in printed materials around the house. Ask your child to use their finger to trace over the letter, paying attention to the direction for the correct formation.

Make the letters out of playdough.

Set a challenge to form the letter shapes with their bodies.

Encourage students to write words using the letters s, a, t and p.

Give students more practise writing the letters from left to right across the page, making sure that all letters are of similar size and consistent slope.

Say the phonemes (sounds) that these letters can represent while they are writing them.

Encourage writing words that blending these letters together can make, like sat, at, pat, tap, sap.

Play a guessing game where you describe the letter and your child has to respond. E.g. “I am thinking about a tall letter that goes straight down, then across. What is it?”