Month: August 2021

C Pirate Letters Handwriting Storybook

The second book in the series, Pirate Handwriting letter formation

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C Pirate Letters: Handwriting Storybook Lowercase Letter Formation

This is the second book in the series Pirate Handwriting.

Discover the Hidden C Shape: A Visual Approach to Lowercase Handwriting

What do a pirate’s hook and a coconut have in common? They both reveal the secret shape behind a group of lowercase letters!

In this second Pirate Handwriting adventure, the pirates discover that a familiar C shape is hidden within eight lowercase letters:

c · a · g · d · q · o · s · e

The Coconut Discovery

The pirates find a coconut on their island. When they cut it in half, they discover a shape that looks just like a pirate’s hook!

This becomes the visual foundation for exploring the C-shaped letter group.

Follow the C Shape!

Through the story and illustrations, children discover how the familiar C shape provides a foundation for forming different lowercase letters.

A curious monkey helps bring these discoveries to life.

As the monkey jumps down to grab a coconut, children discover how the shape develops into the hook of the letter g.

When the monkey drops whole coconuts from the tree, the pirates notice the round impressions left in the sand. They trace around the circular shape, beginning with the familiar C-shaped movement, to discover the letter o.

Two coconut halves provide another visual clue for exploring the letter s.

And there’s a special little surprise with the letter e! The monkey rolls a round coconut and pushes it, creating the C shape that completes the letter.

Visual Clues for Letter Formation

The pirate coins mark the starting positions, while the coconut shapes and playful illustrations help children recognise the familiar formation pattern.

By seeing the C shape repeated throughout the group, children build familiarity with the handwriting movement, develop muscle memory and gain a visual reference to help guard against letter reversals.

One familiar shape. Eight lowercase letters. A whole new pirate discovery!

Letter e has the c-shape with an extra step first.

And the pirates discover the first set of vowels. Now they are really on the path to reading.

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The Bird Knows Something the Pirates Don’t!

Remember the colourful bird from the first Pirate Handwriting adventure?

When the pirates tried to read words using their newly discovered consonants, they couldn’t make sense of them. Something was missing!

The clever bird knew exactly what they needed.

“Aw, something is missing!”

“Aw, vowels!”

The bird repeats the sounds, drawing attention to the vowel sounds hidden in everyday speech.

As the adventure unfolds, the bird introduces the vowel letters a and o.

The pirates are beginning to discover that there’s more to their letter treasure than they first imagined!

Then the story continues in book 3: i Pirate letters, straight line letters and one more vowel to be found.

By D. Passmore

The next book in the series is: I Pirate Letters

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The Vowels: A Second Kind of Treasure

The vowel discovery continues throughout the four-book Pirate Handwriting series.

Book 2 introduces a and o, Book 3 adds i, and Book 4 reveals u.

Together with the earlier discovery of the consonants, the pirates are gradually uncovering another important part of learning to read and spell words.

The pirates thought they were searching for treasure. They didn’t realise that some of the most valuable treasure was made of letters!

R’s Pirate Letters: Handwriting Storybook Lowercase Letter Formation

Correct letter formation connects the muscle memory and the visual cue of letter into a storybook adventure. The pirates can not find their treasure with messy maps. They find the r-shaped seaweed on the island and learn making letters can be easy when the all share the same shape.

A Pirate Adventure That Makes Learning Handwriting an Exciting Discovery!

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R’s Pirate Letters: Handwriting Storybook Lowercase Letter Formation

This is the first book in the Pirate Handwriting series. The dive-down letters.

Join the pirates on a treasure-seeking adventure as they discover the secret of lowercase letter formation.

Six letters. One exciting discovery. A whole new handwriting adventure!

The letters in this book all share a similar ‘r’ shape and fine motor direction with a common downstroke and slide-up hook.

Letters: r, n, m, h, b, p

R-look! The h and b have the same hidden r-shape. That will be easy to make.

The discovery of the r-shaped foundation.

Take the letters h and b, for example. Both share a similar formation structure. Both tall letters that are made almost the same way.

By recognising the familiar r-shaped element, children can begin to understand the relationship between these letters and the movements involved in forming them.

Six Letters. One Underlying Shape. A Carefully Planned Learning Sequence.

The first Pirate Handwriting adventure introduces six lowercase letters: r, n, m, h, b and p.

These letters are not presented in alphabetical order. They are introduced in a carefully planned sequence that draws attention to their shared formation patterns, starting points and differences in letter height.

First, Discover the r-Shape: r, n, m

The adventure begins with the pirates discovering r-shaped seaweed patterns in the sand.

This familiar shape becomes the foundation for exploring the first three letters: r, n and m.

All three begin with the same starting movement and are formed to the same height. Children can build familiarity with this shared pattern as they progress from one letter to the next.

Next, Look Up: h, b

The pirates then discover that the familiar formation pattern can be found in taller letters too.

The letters h and b introduce an important new concept: letter height.

Although these letters share formation features with the first group, they extend much higher. This distinction helps children understand why n and h should look different, even though they have related formation patterns.

Finally, Dive Down: p

The last letter in the adventure is p.

Unlike the preceding letters, p extends below the writing line. Introducing it last gives children another important feature of lowercase letter formation to discover: the drop-down letter.

Learning Through Visual Discovery

Throughout the story, illustrations reveal the underlying r-shaped formation using seaweed patterns in the sand. A pirate coin provides a visual starting-point clue, helping children identify where to begin.

Rather than treating each letter as an entirely separate shape, children are invited to discover the patterns, movements and differences that connect the letters.

Pirate Handwriting brings letter formation to life through visual storytelling, helping children see how letters are made and how they relate to one another.

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The lowercase r-shape is the foundation, not simply a shape that happens to appear in the other letters.

It has several connected purposes:

  1. A consistent formation movement: Children learn the r-shaped movement first and build familiarity and muscle memory through its use in the related letters.
  2. A visual reference: The underlying r shape remains visible within the other letters, helping children recognise their formation direction
  3. A reversal cue: The familiar shape provides a visual reference that helps children distinguish the correct orientation of letters.
  4. A starting-point reminder: The pirate coin identifies the top starting position.

Now Available in Hardcover ISBN 978-0-473-60223-9 (From IngramSpark)

The second book in the series is: C Pirate Letters, by D. Passmore

Letters: c, a, g, d, q, o, s, e

The pirates find vowels, and now they can read VC and CVC words. They play word games in the sand.

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