Pre-Writing and Printing Skills Booklets, Stroke Practice, Letter Formation

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Do you have pre-kindergarten students who aren’t quite ready to print the alphabet, but they’re ready for some pre-writing practice? Do your kindergarten and first grade students write their letters from the bottom up? Help your students develop their fine motor skills and learn correct letter formation with these pre-writing and printing activities. Children have fun using these booklets (so much more fun than worksheets!) to practice all of the strokes used in uppercase and lowercase letters, without actually writing the letters.

When they are ready for letters, the printing booklets are Montessori-inspired and self-correcting so your students can be as independent as possible and you don’t have to worry that they are starting from the bottom. All you have to do is teach them to start the letter on the green dot and finish on the red dot.

Here is more information to help you decide if these resources are right for you:

Practicing the Capital Letter Strokes (Pre-writing)

• 10 half-size pages of pre-printing practice (1 printed copy yields one booklet)

• color and black and white versions

Practicing the Capital Letters (Printing)

• 12 half-size pages of printing practice (1 printed copy yields one booklet)

• color and black and white versions

• sequence of letters is arranged according to number of strokes and order of difficulty. Try it! It really helps the kids to follow the correct stroke order.

1 stroke: C, O, U, S, L, V, W, Z

2 strokes: T, D, P, B, R, J, G, Q, N, M, K, X, Y

3 strokes: I, F, H, A

4 strokes: E

Practicing the Lowercase Letter Strokes (Pre-writing)

• 10 half-size pages of pre-printing practice (1 printed copy yields one booklet)

• color and black and white versions are included

Practicing the Lowercase Letters (Printing)

• 12 half-size pages of printing practice (1 printed copy yields one booklet)

• color and black and white versions

• highlighted and non-highlighted versions

• sequence of letters is arranged according to type of letter (tall, small, fall) and order of difficulty.

Tall: l, t, h, k, b, d, f (includes a visual hint to help children differentiate between b and d)

Small: i, v, w, x, z, r, n, m, u, c, o, a, s, e

Fall: j, y, g, q, p

What other teachers have to say:

“GREAT resource! This has really helped the kids I have that have struggled with writing!” –Andrea B.

“I love this. I needed exactly what this offers in my K classroom! Thanks” –Denise E.