Foundational Lines

Use this adaptive paper to help children understand letter sizing. Tall letters are giraffes, short letters are chickens, and hanging letters are monkeys. With this worksheet and fun visual cues, children will better understand the rules to letter sizing and increase legibility with handwriting.

This adaptive paper helps children learn appropriate letter sizing for upper and lower case letters using categorization, visual prompts, and tri-lined paper. Children will be able to categorize and appropriately size letters by giraffe (tall letters), chicken (short letters), and monkey (hanging letters) using visual cues presented on the left side of the paper.

Prewriting strokes are the foundation for handwriting and letter development. Children spend hours learning about these shapes and strokes through play as part of natural development. Have you ever seen a child stack blocks or rings? In that activity, they are learning about vertical lines (the first prewriting stroke). Similarly, this activity uses construction to teach children how to form prewriting strokes and letters. By crafting and connecting paper shapes together, they are learning seque

Use these flashcards for a visual perceptual activity to learn appropriate letter size. Have the child match letters to the correct sized animal, (tall letters=giraffe, short letters=chicken, hanging letters=monkey). Play a game of memory with the cards (the child wins the card if they flip over the correct match). You can also tape the matching animal to the back of the letter card and have the child quiz themself for memorization of appropriate letter sizing.

Adaptive Paper to practice Letter sizing with wide ruled tri-lined paper and visual cues. (Giraffe=tall letters, Chicken=short letters, Monkey=hanging letters)

Adaptive paper with visual prompts to assist with letter sizing. This paper uses the Giraffe, Monkey, and Chicken handwriting strategy on tri-lined paper with a shaded area for additional visual cues.

Wide Ruled adaptive paper for letter sizing with visual cues. (Giraffe=tall letters, Chicken=short letters, and Monkey=hanging letters)

Use these flashcards for a visual perceptual activity. Have children short letters between tall, short, and hanging. These can also be used as a copy model to help children master letter formation during handwriting.

Use these letter flashcards to help students learn letter sizing and line placement differences between tall, short, and hanging letters.

pracitice Prewriting strokes with fun pictures, as part of the construct, draw, write handwriting program

Work on visual perceptual skills required for handwriting development by constructing this school bus. Have the child color, cut, and glue the pieces together to work on alignment, sequencing, and orientation of pieces. Use the model at the top of the page as your guide.

Practice writing lowercase letters with visual cues for correct letter sizing. The worksheet includes writing opportunities for tracing, near-point coping, and independent writing.