Next Step In Early Writing

Before the children begin to put pencils in their hands to write, they get to write with the Moveable Alphabet!  You can have them lay out small objects that have phonetic spelling as seen in this photo or you can dictate phonetic words out loud to them or even use pictures of things with phonetic spelling.  Do not correct misspellings, this is a writing lesson and not a reading lesson!  They don’t even have to read the words to you.  The point is to get the children to hear the sounds that form the words and be able to find those sounds and create words.  They will get better and better at this as they practice.  Below is the Manuscript Print example.