Over 4000 free K-8 resources for learning at school and home.

Letter to parents and caregivers: how to help your child get started with writing.  Move from scribble to letters!  

Use wide highlight tape to highlight lowercase letters on the alphabet chart.  

Separate or cut apart alphabet cards to space the letters

Put alphabet cards on background paper to provide contrast... (3 page packet)

Sitting with long legs, put containers on the floor on one side of your body and the cotton bolls, sponges or bean bags on the other side.  Use a clothespin to pick up a cotton ball and place it in a container on the other side of your body.  

Purpose: Separation of the two sides of the hand.  Use the tweezers to pick up a bean and drop it into the cup... 

6 page packet for printing alphabet flash cards.  

Record the highest level at which more than half of the descriptors apply to a writing sample or collection of a child's writing.  Refer to the anchor papers for examples of writing at each level.  (Emerging, Pictorial, Precommunicative, Semiphonetic)