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These are very early activities for writing,
writing preparation. Often, we do these on
a chalkboard, sometimes we will actually have
them on a ditto and let the children pick
from a stack of dittos, but these are the
early writing. I start by writing dashes,
lines and things in the first box, and what
their goal is to finish that. When I'm presenting,
I show them dot, slash, slash, circle, X,
line; and I show them exactly how I write
it, so they know how to hold a pencil. Dot,
line, line, circle, X, and line. Then have
them trace them again; dot. Can you make your
own, dot, dot, dot, dot? Trace the slash and
make a new one. Then have them trace and repeat.
Trace and make their own.
Trace and make their own. After they have
mastered doing this activity, I will just
put one here, and have them just do the whole
entire page, or often I will put a dash, a
line, a dash, a line and then have them repeat
it in the next box, which is a little more
difficult. The next step after this is actually
to do the letters of the alphabet. We always
start with the main lines and dashes for writing
preparation.