Recommended Age: 4 years and onwards
Purpose: For the child to focus on correct letter formation when writing
Level of Parent Involvement: Medium, the adult must model this exercise for the child the first time then the child may work independently
Prerequisites
- The child has been presented to all sandpaper letters
- The child has begun writing letters on a chalkboard and on paper
Materials
- Sandpaper letters
- Writing pencil
- Paper
Preparation
- Print the paper version of the sandpaper letters PDF
- Cut out the sand paper letters
- Using craft glue and fine sand, apply sand to the letter, allow to dry
- You may like to draw a dot on the letter indicating where the letter starts
Steps
- Invite the child letting them know you have a sorting game to show them
- The child may bring the sandpaper letters to the table, you bring the paper and pencil
- Let the child know that they will be tracing the sandpaper letters and sorting them into piles, depending on where their fingers start tracing the letter (for example from the top, from the body of the letter etc)
- Take 3 sand paper letters
- Invite the child to trace them one at a time
- If the letters begin in the same way when tracing, the child may put them together, creating piles of sandpaper letters which begin the same way
- Leave the child to work independently
- Come back when the child has finished sorting all letters
- Invite the child to write the letters on a piece of paper which start in the same way
Variations
- None
