Learning to Print

When I introduced my older daughter to writing it went smoothly and easily. She loves to color and was coloring before she was even two years old. We bought her the Big Skills for Little Hands: I Can Color! book to encourage her. After that we moved to the Kumon workbooks starting with the My First Book Of Tracing workbook before moving on to My First Book Of Uppercase Letters and now My First Book of Lowercase Letters. She's been learning well from the workbooks and she loves earning the certificate at the end. However, the cost of the workbooks can add up - especially as the number of children multiplies.

So I was excited to find a website that offered traceable preschool worksheets. Print Activities features all the upper and lower case letters as well as the numbers 1 through 10. The letter worksheets show pictures with labels of words that begin with the featured letter. On the bottom half of the number worksheets is a circle the correct amount number game. However, you are getting what you pay for to some extent.

There aren't any worksheets for pre-writing practice (vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines, and curves and circles). Moreover the uppercase and lowercase letter are on the same worksheet. And the labels on the bottom half of the alphabet sheets are written in all uppercase letters.

The worksheets are useful for review. Or with a little manipulation of the sheets (so only uppercase or lowercase is showing on each sheet like above) they can be used to introduce the letters. Just take care to present them in a logic order for writing. I suggest starting with L, T and H before introducing letters with diagonal lines. Introduce all the straight lined letters before beginning on curves and circles. I hope you find the link useful.