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X Pirate Letters: Handwriting Storybook for learning the lowercase letters v, w, y, x, z & u.

Orton-Gillingham Style Handwriting in a storybook to make learning the letters a fun adventure.

This is the fourth book in the handwriting series.

The pirate’s lowercase letter adventure is coming to a close with one of their favorite letters the X.

Of course, because the letter X would traditionally mark the spot where the treasure is located.

In this book, they will learn the slanted letters: v, w, y, x, v, and surprise the last vowel the letter u. The letter u is a very funny part of the story and it includes the vowel sounds are also a type of treasure for the pirates as they learn to write. Thanks to the helpful parrot that flies by.

In this storybook, the lowercase letters are grouped to help improve muscle memory and indicate a common starting point. The pictures illustrate a sensory experience of writing in the sand to stimulate the brain for learning. With letters grouped by similar starting points and slanted downstrokes, it can speed up the handwriting process and improve letter print recognition for reading. Images of the letters share the same shape to help avoid common letter reversal errors. Special attention to paid to the vowel letter, by a colorful bird. Paired with a fun and memorable story to engage the interests of young students.

This is a perfect book to use with sand tray letters.

The whole pirate adventure is available in one storybook on Amazon. The Pirate Letters: Lowercase Handwriting Storybook.

This is a wonderful way to teach handwriting in the Orton-Gillingham style letter groups.

Handwriting worksheets and cards for this book are available HERE on Teachers Pay Teachers.

C Pirate Letters Sand Tray

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I Pirate Letters Storybook for handwriting lowercase letters

Orton-Gillingham Style Handwriting in a storybook to make learning fun.

This is the third book in the handwriting series.

The adventure continues, the pirates think that someone has been digging for treasure on the island. A huge surprise in the sand leads them to learn the next set of straight-line letters.

These letters are the third handwriting group. In this story, they will learn the letters: i, j, l, t, f, k.

In this storybook, the lowercase letters are grouped to help improve muscle memory and indicate a common starting point. The pictures illustrate a sensory experience of writing in the sand to stimulate the brain for learning. With letters grouped by similar starting points and straight downstrokes, it can speed up the handwriting process and improve letter print recognition for reading. Images of the letters share the same shape to help avoid common letter reversal errors. Special attention to paid to the vowel letter, by a colorful bird. Paired with a fun and memorable story to engage the interests of young students.

Tall Letters

Letter size is crucial but often overlooked when students are learning to write. Letters like i, j, f, l, t, and k provide great examples to highlight this concept.

i – is small
j – is a fall letter
f, l, t, and k, are tall letters.

Handwriting letter strips can be found on my TPT page. These are great for students to use daily. Practice writing the letters and making the letters sounds are very important for reading and spelling.

This is a perfect book to use with sand tray letters.

The next book in the series is “X Pirate Letters.“

The 4 book series can be purchased on AMAZON

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You may also like the c letters for sand trays.

C Pirate Letters Sand Tray

Air Writing ABC Book

Download and print the flashcards for this book. Teachers Pay Teachers

For play-based learning; with Air Writing

Students can pretend to be an airplane, and mirror the letter movements of the teacher. This exercise can help them learn the correct starting and stopping points of the capital letters. The helpful green dot shows the starting point of the letter, with numbered steps for letters that have more than one step. Valuable teacher instruction pages and Flash Card pages that can be cut out of the book to use in class. The reversed alphabet chart on the back cover of this book, helps to remind the teacher in which direction to make the letters. Very helpful when the book or the card is facing the students.

Mirror image; Why does it look backwards?

Remember my right is your left, when we are facing each other. This book will help teachers so the students will NOT be seeing the reversed Image by mistake. It can aid and support future handwriting success, while learning feels like play.

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Sensory bags for Hand Writing without Tears

Easy to make this sensory bag with any cream and a few colors sealed in a zip lock-style bag.

Hand Writing with Color Mixing FUN

This is a simple and fun way to change up the Hand writing without tears style of teaching. It is a ziplock bag, sealed with extra layers of clear packing tape to help avoid puncture. Special care was taken on the weak points of the bag, the top, and the seams.

Make sure to press out all the air before sealing.

This bag was filled with cheap dollar-store hair conditioner, blue & red liquid watercolor. Notice the letter cards are secured together with a simple ring after hole punched. It is hard to see, but under the bag is a yellow holographic piece of card stock.

Double Layer the Bags

Funny thing: We like to recycle in our classroom, but there is a limit. The first time we tried this, it was older zipper-lock bag that we had reused for odds and ends. I only taped the zipper end shut. I did not want to waste a new bag. Ha ha! The joke was on me, it gave way and I was cleaning up this clever project. So tape, or double on bags.

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