She sounds similar to my DD, she loves writing and can do about half the alphabet. She's trying to learn to read and is starting to put letters together and recognise familiar words like our names.
I have just started her off by writing letters and whatever words she asks for in dots, and then she traces over them. I do tell her about where to start a letter and how to draw it, but at the moment she just does what she needs to do to get the line traced lol. She's got time still to get it 'right'. Then for Christmas we gave her a leap pad scribble & write pad. It basically does what I do with the dots for letters and numbers. On level 2 they have to stay on the line and start in the right spot to 'pass'.
She's 2.5yo. That is a really fun idea artechim. She'll love cutting out the letters and arranging them. Thanks. The writing books I've found have the directions on them, but like Teeki's girl she's just forming them how she likes. I figure as long she keeps practicing them with me while she's interested She'll eventually get the right method.
Teeki that leap pad sounds fun. Where did you get it?
I remember my boy being very interested in letters around that age - we had to read him the alphabet book every.single.night for his bedtime story or the world ended lol.
You can also get a letter sheet with the arrows and laminate it so she can write and rub off with a white board pen. I just got a Peppa Pig practice letters book that my girls like to use sometimes.
I would suggest you gently attempt to get them writing it the correct way before school though - my DS taught himself to write and allowed no input from anyone and now he forms his letters in a way that frustrates his teachers lol.
She doesn't need to be able to read to write no. The O's are a very usual form of first writing. The child is representing text as she sees it. It will evolve to include other shapes and eventually recognisable ones. I would recommend teaching lower case rather than capitals as this is what they will need to write primarily in to begin with.
Foster her interest by pointing out written words in everyday life. You could focus on the first letter of her name and find things that start with that and cut out pictures and paste them with the letter. Big is better for little hands so get her some of those thick colouring pencils.
they will teach the correct way to write the letters at school, so if you can try eventually to move towards that, it will help her once she gets there. I'd focus on her name and other family for now.
What a clever chicken, btw, as this is quite early to be 'writing'.
When DS was little I was constantly surprised at the information he would just suck into his brain - way earlier than I had thought kids would. If she is interested then definitely take advantage of that. We got one of the fridge magnet sets with the letters and when they put the letters in it sings a little song about the letter. You can also do activities like tracing over the letter.
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