Build-a-Letter and Number Writing Activities for Preschoolers Bundle

Description

When kids have to write before they’re developmentally ready.

The curriculum requires your littles to achieve specific writing outcomes, but you don’t want them sitting at the desk doing writing exercises.
You get an OT handwriting referral for an almost 5-year-old, and you know that they just aren’t ready for structured writing demands.
Your kid is keen to learn to write, but you’d like it to be fun and age-appropriate, rather than a bunch of desktop drills.

We work in a system that forces little people to achieve big people handwriting goals.  Until we are able to get legislators to understand that less is more when it comes to formalised handwriting objectives in young kids, we have to find a way to, as far as possible, achieve required outcomes while never forgetting these are not Grade 1 children itching to embark on their literacy journey with all their required developmental foundations in their backpacks.

When you understand exactly what early developmentally appropriate handwriting looks like and you have a system that makes sure your kiddos learn the right way the first time with starting positions, formation rhymes (because the research says this is critical for formation mastery), and multisensory input (without the mess), then you are setting your kids up for success.

You aren’t asking them to participate in writing activities that are way beyond their developmental abilities, but you have the way to lay the foundations in keeping with the curriculum demands, while ensuring the activities are age-appropriate.

It all starts with the Build-a-Letter and Number Bundle: the letter formation system that packages all the evidence-based letter formation strategies into an age-appropriate multisensory bundle.

If you want to fulfil curriculum handwriting requirements in a developmentally appropriate way…
If you want your pre-schoolers to master letter and number formation basics without asking them to do loads of writing, their little hands are just not yet ready for…
If you want your kiddos to master early writing skills in line with evidence-based guidelines…

It all starts with the Build-a-Letter and Number Bundle.

This early writing bundle integrates research-based principles with age-appropriate activities, so your kids can master their early writing goals without asking them to perform at a level their developing bodies are just not yet ready for.

As an OT who is mad about childhood development and handwriting, I have spent years and years learning to align my interventions with curricula written by legislators who require our young kids to be writing words and sentences way before their little bodies are ready.

I have used:

the research to guide the principles;
the curricula to guide the outcomes;
and the kids’ development to guide the method.

And when you pull those together and trial them in the field for years and years to make sure they work, you get developmentally appropriate early writing activities that meet the goals, but most importantly, that the kids enjoy.

And as I always say, children learn when they are having fun.

This is what you get:

1. 183 printable pages to download immediately so you can get stuck in straight away;
2. A guide so you will know exactly how to use and get the most out of this resource;
3. Multisensory early-writing skill development ideas so you can give your kiddo’s little brains as much sensory information about how to form their letters and numbers to help them lay down the formation patterns in their brains;
4. 26 lowercase printable A5 letter cards for you to laminate so you can use them over and over again for years to come;
5. 26 kid-friendly songs and rhymes for letter formation, which research tells us is so powerful for assisting in laying down the formation patterns in the brain;
6. 2 formation options for both the letters t and y, so you can choose the formation that is consistent with your setting;
7. A copy the letter formation book Printing Book1, so you can move from the multisensory to writing letters when your kids are ready for it;
8. 11 printable A5 number cards for you to laminate so your kiddo can master  number formations, which are a critical foundation for maths;
9. Two formation options for number 8 so you can choose your fav, because emotions seem to run high about the correct formation for 8;
10. 10 kid-friendly number formation rhymes and songs so you can leverage the evidence-based info that tells us that verbalising the formation directions significantly assists with formation mastery;
11. A Number formation book so your kiddos can start writing their numbers when they are ready to transition from the multisensory to actual writing;
12. Letters grouped by their letter formation patterns and starting positions, so you can limit letter and number reversals, which are so hard to remediate once they have become hard-wired in that pattern;
13. Letters and numbers divided into groups by their starting positions, built in a boundary box with different coloured play dough to get ahead of letter reversals before they even start;
14. Starting positions clearly highlighted with the kids’ favourite: The Doughnut®, which is our starting cue, so we can set our kids on the path to achieving letter automaticity, which is one of the four pillars of functional handwriting.

Bonus Time!

*A free set of upper case Build-a-Letter cards so you can start with either upper or lowercase formations, depending on your setting.*

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Newsflash: Early writing outcomes are written by people who don’t understand developmental readiness and require our kids to spend endless time in desk-top activities producing writing outcomes that their little bodies are not yet ready for.

That’s why there are so many young kids struggling to meet the early writing outcomes.

And this is where the Build-a-Letter and Number Bundle comes in: developmentally appropriate, multi-sensory early letter and number formation activities that include all the evidence-based principles for letter and number formation mastery.

Get the bundle, print the resources and introduce your kiddos to The Doughnut, the formation rhymes and songs, and start them on their multi-sensory journey to letter and number formation success: the right way the first time.

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FAQ

I see you use a dotted font in your workbooks.  I have heard that unless they are closely watched, dotted fonts lead to children starting their letters in the wrong positions.

With ALL systems, children are less likely to start in the correct place unless closely watched.  However, with this system, children are far less likely to start in the wrong position.  Because I have marked the starting position, The Doughnut, the children are already more likely to start in the correct place.  Add to this the formation rhyme that cues the starting position as well as the formation direction, formations are far more likely to be achieved in the correct pattern than without the dots.

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eBook Copyright Conditions:

• This eBook for writing activities for preschoolers is sold as a single-user item.  This means you, and only you, may use and copy it.
• It may not be passed on to colleagues.
• Each person must buy their own copy, or it is a copyright violation.
• Each eBook may only be used in one venue.  You will need to purchase additional copies for additional venues.
• Organisations may print two copies, after which they are required to obtain multiple-user licenses.  Please make direct contact for multiple-use licenses.
• The book may not be sold to a third party.
• The copyright conditions for your writing activities for preschoolers apply equally across the spectrum from affluent, to non-profits and previously disadvantaged settings.
• eBooks are nonreturnable and nonrefundable.

If you are only looking for letters for writing activities for preschoolers the Build-a-Letter may suit your needs.

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