$5 - $10 1st Grade Handwriting Activities (by date, oldest first)

Handwriting improves a student's ability to recall information, make connections between different concepts, and synthesize information in new ways!

My handwriting book includes:

• Mnemonic keywords and pictures (this will help with memory of letter name and sound as they practice the writing of the letter)
• Letter formation sayings and pictures for where to start and end your letters
• Sentence Practice
• Binding edge so that you can place it in folders with sheet protectors to use with dry erase markers, staple or coil bind together to use fun pens, glitter crayons, colored pencils, markers, etc!

When a student can produce the letters correctly and quickly, they will use less brain power when writing words and sentences!

This is a Handwriting Practice Bundle (levels 1- 5). This practice will help enhance the alphabet learning process in a fun and engaging manner. You will received 5 handwriting packets. 130 Pages total.

Individual packets

Handwriting Practice Level 1

Handwriting Practice Level 2

Handwriting Practice Level 3

Handwriting Practice Level 4

Handwriting Practice Level 5

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Find 10 different resources for practicing CVC word work all focused on the AM word family. Practice reading fluency and writing while playing games, doing crafts and other activities.

Products included in this bundle:

• AM Family Flower -- This product includes one AM word family flower template. This flower craft is great for spring themed word family activity or center. It has six different petals with words and pictures to help introduce the AM family.
• AM Family Word and Sentence Matching Mats -- This packet contains two AM family matching mats where students will match the picture to the correct word or match the picture to the correct sentence. Each set has pictures available in color and in black and white.
• AM Family Word Wall Cards -- Two word wall cards available for each AM word. Each set contains a picture. One set has the word in all black and the other set as the rime in red.
• AM Family Sentence Matching -- Let the student sort the pictures to match the sentence. Sentences include sight words and color words. There are 9 sentences total.
• AM Family Dice Games -- Use these two dice game templates and recording sheet sets to practicing recognizing and spelling AM Word Family Words.
• AM Family Fluency Practice -- This packet contains a set of AM word family fluency strips to practice reading sentences with AM words. There is also a fluency passage and a reading passage.
• AM Family Fun Sheets -- This packet contains several no prep activities for more AM word family practice!
• AM Family Emergent Readers -- This packet contains two AM Family emergent readers.
• AM Family Foldable Books - There are 8 different foldable mini books to practice reading, writing, and identifying AM words
• AM Words Sorting - Sort words and pictures that are part of the AM family, as well as real and nonsense words.

More Reading Resources

CVC Sentences Reading

CVC Reading and Blending Cards

Monthly Themed Handwriting Practice: Fun Activities for Every Month!

Enhance your students' handwriting skills with this "Monthly Themed Handwriting Practice" resource! Each month features engaging activities and prompts tailored to seasonal themes, holidays, and events, making writing practice enjoyable and relevant. From winter wonders to spring blooms, students will have fun improving their penmanship while exploring different topics. Perfect for classroom use or at-home learning, this resource encourages creativity and consistency in handwriting development!

The themes include 3 different pages for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Valentine's Day, Fourth of July, Halloween, St. Patrick's Day, Earth Day, New Year, Summer, Spring, Winter, and Fall.

This bundle meets all your witchy needs of shape matching, counting to 20, or fine motor skills of tracing or cutting.

Other Resources:

⭐ Halloween Monster Flip Build Write Bundle
⭐ Halloween Mystery Picture| Color Code| Short Vowel| CVC Word or Picture Bundle
⭐ Halloween Monster Shape Match Bundle
⭐ Halloween Monster Bundle Candy Trace

Grab these 200 printable worksheets to have your child or kindergarten students practice handwriting and counting the cardinal numbers 1 through 100. The worksheets support counting, but also handwriting and number identification.

What's Included?

• 100 beautiful color worksheets (laminate for multiple uses)
• 100 black & white worksheets (perfect for coloring!)

What activities are on the worksheets?

• number formation
• cardinal number handwriting
• correlating number of images to color
• search and find the number
• fill in the missing number
• color the boxes to match the number

When can these worksheets be used?

• morning work
• fast finisher activity
• homework
• extra support
• pre-k introduction
• kindergarten readiness

Grab this bundle to get 20% off handwriting and tracing the alphabet letters and cardinal numbers. Please check out each product in the bundle for more info!

This bundle has everything your child or student needs to:

• Learn numbers 1-100 and counting
• Learn alphabet letters A to Z
• practice handwriting
• practice identification of letters and numbers
• have fun coloring

Looking for some fun seasonally-themed handwriting activities for the year? This bundle includes all seasons and 14 holiday-themed worksheets. These sentence practice worksheets will help your child or student build sentences and write sentences independently while connecting the image with the sentence's meaning.

Students can use the finger-spacing tool (in three different skin tones) to assist them in perfect word spacing. Students can also color the seasonally-themed pictures that illustrate the sentence they are practicing writing.

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✏️ NOTE: You can use the finger-spacing buddy as is, laminate it, and/or attach it to a popsicle stick for further support of little hands. It’s recommended to print the finger-spacing buddy on thicker paper, such as cardstock.

✏️ This resource includes:

   ✏ 140 seasonally-themed sentence-building worksheets

   ✏ 3 diverse skin-toned pointer-finger hands

   ✏ No prep! Simply print and distribute with scissors and glue

✏️ Seasons and Holidays included:

   ✏ Christmas

   ✏ Chinese New Year

   ✏ Valentine’s Day

   ✏ St. Patrick’s Day

   ✏ Easter

   ✏ Father’s Day

   ✏ Mother’s Day

   ✏ Back to School

   ✏ Thanksgiving

   ✏ Halloween

   ✏ Winter

   ✏ Spring

   ✏ Summer

   ✏ Fall

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Color Word Unit daily practice sheets to reinforce HFW/sight word colors. Perfect for a "Color of the Day" activity as you introduce color words to your young learners. A variety of skills included such as:

• Recognize the color word and circle
• Color the word
• Trace the word (D'Nealian font)
• Read the word in easy, decodable CVC words
• Draw a picture to represent the color word
• Trace a color word sentence

This activity is easy to pair with my Color Word Poems and Color Word Craft to round out your perfect intro to teaching color words to your kindergarten or first grade class.

Color Word Poems

Color Word Crafts

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This comprehensive collection of worksheets is designed to help young learners develop the essential skills needed for handwriting through engaging and fun activities.

What's Included:

• 10 tracing lines Worksheets
• 16 Shape Tracing Worksheets
• 9 Prewriting Lines Worksheets
• Bonus Activities for Extra Practice ( tracing animals and coloring )

Why Choose Our Worksheets:

Our "tracing lines , Prewriting Lines and Shapes Tracing Worksheets" are carefully crafted by experienced educators to ensure that each activity is both educational and enjoyable. By providing consistent practice, these worksheets will help your students gain the confidence and skills they need to succeed in their writing journey.

Download now and give your students a head start in developing their writing abilities with our engaging and effective prewriting lines and shapes tracing worksheets!

36 fine motor skills activity cards for improving hand strength, pencil grip and handwriting.

Within your classroom you can either have these out as occasional tasks or you can have a 'Funky Fingers' table set up permanently within the room with a new task set up either each day or each week.

Printable support resources included for fine motor skills activities:

• Gingerbread men to tweezer buttons onto
• Large numbers to place sequins on
• Hole punch activity
• Jellybean jars
• Geoboard number templates
• Gumball machines
• Muffin tray templates
• Tags for padlocks and keys
• Pompom ice creams
• Pompom pictures
• Numbers for threading

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Set young minds on a path to learning with this interactive workbook that combines essential letter and number tracing with the fascinating world of jobs and professions!

This engaging workbook is designed specifically for children ages 3-6 and features:

• Number tracing: Practice writing numbers 1 to 25, all while counting adorable animals incorporated into the illustrations!
• Letter tracing: Improve letter recognition and writing from A to Z with engaging jobs and professions themes.
• Fun and educational: Spark their curiosity and develop essential pre-writing skills through a unique blend of tracing and counting activities.

This workbook is the perfect way to help your child:

• Develop a strong foundation in writing and number recognition.
• Learn about different jobs and professions in a fun and interactive way.
• Enhance their hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills.

Get ready to watch your child's confidence soar as they embark on this exciting learning adventure!

"Learn to Trace Letters A to Z and Numbers 1-25: A Fun Practical Workbook for Kids Age 3-6" is an engaging and interactive workbook designed to help young children develop their letter and number tracing skills.

With ample space provided, kids are encouraged to practice writing letters and numbers independently, fostering confidence and fine motor skills.

Additionally, this workbook incorporates a delightful animal-themed counting activity, where children can count the adorable animals and write down the corresponding numbers.

Packed with fun and educational exercises, this workbook is the perfect companion for early learners on their journey to mastering letters and numbers.

Just Print & Play! Do you need fun & engaging handwriting activities? These story sheets feature The Nutcracker! Compose a Nutcracker-themed story or use for seasonal handwriting practice.

• 15 Full Writing Pages
• 15 Story & Writing Pages

Do you need fun & engaging handwriting activities? These tracing and handwriting practice sheets feature composers and jazz musicians! Each page features capital and lowercase practice for each letter, with a composer/performer to color. Blank pages (with pictures) are also included for additional practice or story writing.

Product Includes:

• 26 trace & write letter pages (with a composer/musician)
• 26 blank writing pages (with a composer/musician)

Letter Pages:

1. A - Leroy Anderson
2. B - Ludwig Van Beethoven
3. C - Frédéric Chopin
4. D - Claude Debussy
5. E - Edward Elgar
6. F - Franz Liszt
7. G - George Gershwin
8. H - George Handel
9. I - Igor Stravinsky
10. J - Scott Joplin
11. K - Nat King Cole
12. L - Louis Armstrong
13. M - Wolfgang Mozart
14. N - Nina Simone
15. O - Carl Orff
16. P - Sergei Prokofiev
17. Q - Roger Quilter
18. R - Gioachino Rossini
19. S - Clara Schumann
20. T - Pyotr Tchaikovsky
21. U - Marco Uccellini
22. V - Antonio Vivaldi
23. W - Dinah Washington
24. X - Xian Xinghai
25. Y - Kosaku Yamada
26. Z - Zoltan Kodaly

Pre-writing success! This tracing activity bundle is more than just fun, it's a supercharged learning booster for your pre-writing superstars! Students trace their way through left-to-right progression lines, letter formation, and fun-themed vocabulary words. There is fun artwork to color on each page and additional handwriting practice pages with word banks!

Learning Objectives

• Boosts pre-reading skills
• Develops hand-eye coordination
• Strengthens fine motor control
• Ignites a love of writing

Themes

Spring Hedgehogs

Spring Sheep

Spring Pencils

Spring Llamas

Resource Includes:

• A to Z tracing page uppercase and lowercase (1)
• Line tracing pages for pencil or finger tracing (3)
• Vocabulary word tracing (2)
• Trace and color vocabulary (3)
• Writing/drawing pages with a word bank (2)
• Writing/drawing pages (3)
• Color match coloring activity (1)

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Fine Motor Skills

• Strength and Coordination: Tracing requires controlled hand movements, building strength and coordination in the finger, hand, and wrist muscles. This improved control lays the groundwork for future writing and manipulation of tools.
• Pencil Grip: Tracing activities encourage students to hold a writing utensil correctly, developing a comfortable and efficient grip essential for future writing success.

Pre-Writing Skills

• Letter and Shape Recognition: Tracing introduces students to different shapes and letter formations, fostering familiarity and visual memory. This recognition is crucial for later independent writing and reading.
• Hand-Eye Coordination: Following visual cues to trace lines accurately improves hand-eye coordination, directly translating to writing fluency and letter formation.

Cognitive Development

• Concentration and Focus: Tracing requires focused attention to stay within the lines, enhancing concentration and maintaining focus on a task. These skills are vital for future academic success.
• Visual-Spatial Awareness: Tracing helps children understand spatial relationships between lines and shapes, developing visual-spatial awareness crucial for reading, writing, and problem-solving.

Emotional and Social Benefits

• Confidence and Self-Esteem: Completing tracing activities fosters a sense of accomplishment and boosts self-esteem, motivating students to continue learning and exploring.
• Creativity and Self-Expression: Tracing can be a playful and creative activity, allowing students to experiment with colors and patterns, fostering self-expression and a love for learning.

Word Tracing

• Letter Formation: Tracing words helps students solidify their understanding of letter shapes and proper letter formation, preparing them for independent writing.
• Vocabulary Development: Tracing familiar words reinforces their spelling and meaning while tracing new words introduces them to new vocabulary words in a fun and engaging way!

This tracing activity pack is a fun and engaging way to build skills and confidence for pre-writers!

Embark on a 12-month musical journey through time with the Classical Journey Bundle! ♬

Add a touch of mindful music to any season, holiday, or composer unit study. With over 150 categorized classical pieces, the Classical Journey Bundle offers an engaging printable for every occasion. Each month unlocks a curated selection of themed classical music pieces, perfectly paired with a holiday or season!

Using this hands on, multisensory activity, students won’t even realize they are learning their letters! In this resource, they will learn letter formation by first building the letters, coloring the letters and pictures, tracing the letter, and writing the letter.

This is not only a fun and engaging way to learn letter formation, but students are working on foundational fine motor skills needed for writing. Students don’t have to use a pencil for writing, try broken crayons (broken crayons help promote tripod grasp pattern), q-tip painting, or fingerpaint. When writing letters for this activity, students use handwriting letter boxes to help with letter size, placement, and spacing. Perfect for pre-K and kindergarten centers, as well as OT groups, homeschool, and handwriting practice

This activity addresses:

Fine and visual motor skills

Fine motor strength and precision

Fine Motor Coordination

Hand strength

Visual Perception

Letter recognition

Letter formation

Included:

78 pages, three for each letter of the alphabet. This set focuses on UPPERCASE letters.

Each uppercase letter has 3 pages:

1. Circle Letter Page:

Build the letter using:

•Bingo Dauber

•Stamps

•Stickers

•Playdough

•Q-tip Painting

•Pipecleaners

•Wiki Stix

•Crumple tissue paper into balls and glue

•Placing pom poms with tongs

•Buttons/pennies

•Wherever your imagination takes you!!

2. Letter Search and Find and Coloring Page:

Color letter and corresponding picture using

•Broken crayons (to promote tripod grasp)

•Finger paint

•Q-tip Painting

•Wherever your imagination takes you!!

Search and find letter using

•Broken crayons (to promote tripod grasp)

•Finger paint

•Q-tip Painting

•Bingo dauber

•Stamp

•Stickers

Placing small pom poms using tongs

3. Trace and Write Page

•Color picture

•Have student first trace over letter with finger. Make sure formation is correct.

•Trace

•Copy letter in letter box

•Write letter on line

Spring word copy and writing practice

Handwriting practice for word copy, sentence copy, and composition. Addresses fine and visual motor skills, visual perception, and fine motor precision for handwriting. Includes activities to make writing practice fun such as crack the codes, codebreaker riddles, color by number, roll a silly story, roll a would you rather writing prompt, draw and write, and color, cut, and paste sentence copy. Perfect for kindergarten and first grade centers, as well as OT sessions, groups, homeschool lessons, and fun home activity.

These are one page, No prep, print and go activities

Included:

•Roll a spring animal word writing practice- roll the dice to find out which word you will trace then copy- one page for each spring animal. Also included are 7 draw and write pages, to draw and write about the animal., with and without included sentence for nearpoint copy.

•4 pages of spring crack the code with answer key

•Color by number bunny- with 5 different pages to copy and/or write about the bunny- paper with and without highlighted lines included.

•Spring word copy practice- 8 pages- including word boxes, 3-lined, and highlighted lines

•Color and write about the spring picture- 2 pages included- with and without provided sentence to nearpoint copy

•Color, cut, paste a spring sentence to copy

•Roll a silly spring story writing prompt

•Roll a Would You Rather…Spring Writing prompt game

•17 different types of handwriting paper- including writing prompts, draw and write, and adapted highlighted paper

Simple Father’s Day Craftivities

These simple fine motor crafts are a great way to incorporate a fun Father’s Day project in the classroom. An adorable keepsake for students to take home to Dad, Grandpa, Uncle, or someone else who is important in their lives.. Includes templates with Dad, Grandpa, and blank.

Option 1: Color, paint, or tear paper to make Father’s Day card. Donut, popcorn, ice cream cone, popsicle, trophy, rocket ship, bear, heart options.

Option 2: Color, cut, and paste. Students color, cut, and paste 2-7 pieces to make a popsicle, ice cream cone, rocket, popcorn,

Option 3: Write about dad, grandpa, or special person on trophy, popcorn, ice cream, popsicle, bear.

Option 4 Tear or snip paper, or roll tissue paper to glue on heart, popcorn, popsicle, ice cream, bear

These are one page, No prep, print and go activity

Included:

•3 donut templates- “Donut you know how much I love you”

•5 popcorn templates: “You are the best POP”- includes options for writing lines and color, cut, and paste

•2 trophy templates: “Worlds Best Dad”

•3 bear templates: “I love you Beary much”

•7 space templates: “I love you to the moon and back”

•8 Ice Cream Templates: “You are the coolest”- includes options for writing lines and color cut and paste

•3 popsicle templates: “Dad you are the coolest”- includes options for writing lines and color, cut, and paste

•5 tie templates- options for writing lines included

•6 heart templates- “I Love You to pieces”

This BUNDLE contains 2 resources:

1. Building Letters Counting Snap Cubes Activity for Uppercase Letters: https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Counting-Snap-Cube-Uppercase-Letter-Build-and-Write-Printing-Practice-OT-9896256

2. Building Letters Counting Snap Cubes Activity for Lowercase Letters: https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Counting-Snap-Cube-Lowercase-Letter-Build-and-Write-Printing-Practice-OT-10193694

In this hands on, multisensory activity, students won’t even realize they are learning! In this resource, they will learn letter formation by first building the letter with counting snap cubes, coloring the letter, tracing the letter, and finally, writing the letter.

Building letters with blocks is not only a fun and engaging way to learn letter formation, but students are working on foundational fine motor skills needed for writing. Students don’t have to use a pencil for writing, try broken crayons (broken crayons help promote tripod grasp pattern), q-tip painting, or fingerpaint. When writing letters for this activity, students use handwriting letter boxes to help with letter size, placement, and spacing. Perfect for pre-K and kindergarten centers, as well as OT groups, homeschool, and handwriting practice

This activity addresses:

Fine and visual motor skills

Hand strength

Visual Perception

Letter recognition

Letter formation