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!

Why not work on letters while coloring? My students love a color-by-code! 

Ways to use this resource:

• Name the letters as you color
• Identify name and sound of letters as you color
• Name letters before you color
• Identify name and sound of letters before you color

First sound fluency is the ability to identify the first sound in a word. To learn to read children need to be able to break words into their sounds! This is a great way to think about sounds in words and the letters that represent those sounds! No prep, print, and cut and paste!

These Letter Formation Cards can be used in SO many different ways to practice letter names and sounds and the formation of letters! In this product, I provide a long list of tips and tricks to make them engaging for your students! The most important piece to creating FUN when learning is thinking about the interests of your students and using them to work with letters! 

Here is a look at some of the tips and tricks! 

•Use them as a secret passage! Hang a letter they are working on on a door and they have to trace it while saying its name and sound!

•Use play-dough to build the letters! 

•Give them a dot paint and let them dot paint each letter!

This is a great way to work on first sound fluency and letter sounds!

NO PREP Letter Matching Practice! Practice recognizing upper and lowercase letters with this cut-and-paste page! Perfect for small groups or centers! Print and work on letters they need as many times as they need!

There is no prep needed! Print and get to work! The alphabet needs to be automatic for our little learners to learn to read! They need to know its name, sound, and formation, and that these letters are represented in words in stories! These letter practice pages are great to meet the needs listed above! My mnemonic device at the top will give the child a great way to remember their letters!

These cards are FUN and ENGAGING way to work on matching upper and lowercase letters! You can also use the pictures to talk about the sounds of the letters as well! Very simple prep, print, cut, and match!

Practice letter naming, letter formation, and first sound fluency that goes with each letter with this easy, quick, and no-prep sheet! It is important that the letters in our alphabet become automatic to gain reading abilities!