I recently received the following question from a reader and since I didn’t have an immediate answer (or the time to go looking) I decided to post it to everyone. I figured that some of you out there might have the answer and at the same time others might be helped out by what everyone has to say on the subject. Here is the question:
“I am looking for little rhymes or sayings to help children to print the letters of the alphabet. I can’t remember any, but have seen them on sites. Do you know what i am talking about and do you know where i can find them?”
I personally don’t use rhymes or sayings to help my children write their letters. I simply walk them through the steps. For example if I were to walk a child through writing an uppercase F, I might say: “Make a straight line down, then go to the top and make a straight line across so that it makes a corner, and then go to the middle and make another straight line across.” While explaining I model what to do so the child has a visual to follow. This has always worked very well for me. I try to break each letter down and walk the children through the process to make it as simple as possible.
I would like to hear how some of you show your children how to write their letters! Also, if any of you could help my reader that would be great! I love hearing all your ideas! 🙂
Teaching to Dream 