Teaching Handwriting Power Point 2

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Teaching Writing

YOUNG LEARNERSSESSION 2


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Aims

Participants will get some ideas

of the basic principles of teaching hand-writing and doing

appropriate writing activities at a very elementary level

of a selection of holistic activities to help give children a strong

imprint of the shape of letters in their mind's eye.


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Do your students enjoy writing?


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What can your young students write intheir L1?


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How well can your young students write in

their L1?


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HO 1Activity 1

Write the numbers from 1 to 14 down the page(name, date of birth, place of birth, fathersname, profession, mothers name, mothersprofession, how many eyes, colour of your hair,how many brothers and sisters, what kind of

people they are, your pet and pets name ) You have to write your words in the spaces inthe text.


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Activity 2.

Put the letters in right order to get a word andthen draw the picture of the word.


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Activity 3.

Put the letters in right order to get a word

and then draw the picture of the word.


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Activity 4.Find means of transport in the

crossword. Then draw these

transports.


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Activity 5.

Copy true sentences for YOU.


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Activity 6.

Write what your want to eat in yourbirthday for breakfast and lunch. Then

draw these things.


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Activity 7. GW

Find secret words. Colour the picture

according to these sentences.

Compare your pictures in groups.


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Activity 8. GW

Write the opposite form of

possible words in the given

story.


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Activity 9

Body letters

Make yourselves into the shape of given letters Forexample make yourself an s etc.

Contort your bodies into what your think the letter lookslike.

Stand with your feet apart and your arms in the air andwide apart. What letter do you think you look like.

Standing with your feet together and your arms stretchedout to the sides.

Now make a letter and the whole has to try to recognizewhat the letter is.


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Activity 10 PW

Tracing letters

Your must play the game in pairs. Shut

your eyes and with your finger trace aletter on your partners hand or back. Yourpartner must tell you what this is.

NOTE: There may be giggles from the

ticklish in the class, but the activityrequires your stidents to see the letter intheir minds eye and its great fun, too.


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Activity 11

Air writing

Please stand up. Now I am going to usemy writing hand and draw a big letter in

the air.Ill say its sound at the same time.

I would like you to copy me moving yourarms to form the letter in the air.


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Activity 12

Letter sculptures

You can use plasticine (soft modelling clay) (half-cooked spaghettiworks too, but is messier) to make certain letters (or words). Theyhave to concentrate on the shape of the letter and its proportions.

You can choose your own letter and make a big one out of plasticineor card, then stick it on a large piece of card.

Look through magazines and newspapers and find either words orpictures of things that begin with the same letter. Cut these out and

create a collage with their big letter. Decorate the classroom withthese posters.


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THANK YOU FOR ATTENTION !


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