Patterns for Letters: Pencil Control and Handwriting

This is a 'Learn to Write' pack containing a booklet of handwriting patterns to help the child develop pencil control and a booklet teaching correct letter formation linked to phonics learning.

Handwriting Patterns:

Each page has a fun activity to help young children learn to control the pencil.

Starting with straight lines, they can take bees to flowers and cars along the road and draw stems on flowers and branches on trees.

Moving onto curved lines, they can take the horses to grass and fly jet planes through the sky!

For zig-zag lines, students can bounce a ball, go upstairs and draw patterns of needles on a fir tree.

For circles they can draw balls and then a pattern of lines and circles with bats and balls.

We then move onto more complex patterns and curves, finishing with some letter shape movements: sticks, circles, v, w, o, u and c shapes.

Learn to Write Letters

This is a first, simple ‘learn to write’ book teaching letter formation linked to beginning sounds for young children.

Order and steps:

Each page has a picture of something that begins with the sound to be practised.

The child can colour the picture while thinking about the sounds it begins with,

The letter is then practised first in lower case, then in upper and finally alternating lower and upper cases.

Red dots indicate where each letter starts and arrows to show direction are given on the first letter of the upper and lower case rows.

Finally, the page finishes with a question, encouraging the child to think of other things that begin with that sound.

By teaching the letters alongside their letter sound, we make the learning of phonics truly multisensory.

The book is sized perfectly for little hands.

Printing and paper

Each book is A5 size. Print as a booklet; flip on the short edge. Print 2 pages per A4 sheet and either fold and staple (if you print as a booklet, flip on the short edge), or cut into 2 pages.

What is included:
2 PDFs.

There are 21 pages of patterns and 26 pages in the letter formation book.

Printing and paper

Each page is just right-for-little-hands A5 size. Print 2 pages per A4 sheet and either fold and staple (if you print as a booklet, flip on the short edge), or cut into 2 pages.