Purchase the Complete Set and receive all three of our handwriting workbooks:

• The Prewriting Skills Workbook
• The Capital Letters Workbook
• The Lower-case Letters Workbook

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Children should learn a series of prewriting skills to support successful writing skills. This is accomplished with easy-to-follow, age-appropriate instructions and activities that are explained step-by-step throughout the Letter Leaders Prewriting Workbook. Children have many opportunities to practice learning prewriting skills throughout this workbook.

The prewriting skills workbook introduces students to the key concepts of the Letter Leaders program, including directional concepts and line identification. The prewriting skills and terminology students learn in the Letter Leaders Prewriting Workbook will guide the learning in the next two workbooks, Capital Letter Formation and Lowercase Letter Formation. The Letter Leaders program teaches children the correct way to write and form letters by helping them recognize where a letter starts and stops (directional concepts), what a particular letter looks like based on its lines (line identification), and how to form the letter correctly (line formation). On each page, children practice writing lines and letters and later words and short sentences. 

The following prewriting skills are taught in the first four weeks of the program:

• Week One: Directional Concepts Top, Bottom, and Middle
• Week Two: Line Identification
• Week Three: Vertical Line Formation
• Week Four: Horizontal Line Formation

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The Letter Leaders Capital Letter Workbook is appropriate for students who have mastered the prewriting skills in the first workbook. From a developmental and motor-learning-theory perspective, capital letters are easier to form than lowercase letters.

With the Letter Leaders program, capital letters are taught in groups based on commonalities, including where on the page the letter starts and the types of lines needed to form the letter. For example, in Letter Leaders Capital Letter Group One, each letter is made up of only down and across lines, like E, F, H, and L. Letters are also taught in a developmental progression from easiest to more challenging. First, letters consisting of only vertical and horizontal lines are taught. Curved letters are taught next, and then letters composed of slide lines. Children practice their letters in these groupings throughout the workbook.

The Following are the six Letter Leaders Capital Letter Groups:

• Week Five: Letter Leaders Capital Letter Group One—E, F, T, H, L, I
• Week Six: Letter Leaders Capital Letter Group Two—Practice Section, Curvy Line Formation
• Week Seven: Letter Leaders Capital Letter Group Two—C, O, G, Q
• Week Eight: Letter Leaders Capital Letter Group Three—P, B, D, R
• Week Nine: Letter Leaders Capital Letter Group Four—M, N, K, Z
• Week Ten: Letter Leaders Capital Letter Group Five—A, W, V, Y
• Week Eleven: Letter Leaders Capital Letter Group Six—J, S, U, X

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Once students have learned how to properly form all twenty-six capital letters, they are ready to learn how to form lowercase letters and learn basic handwriting skills. Forming lowercase letters requires more fine-motor dexterity and better pencil control because, unlike capital letters, lowercase letters are formed in one fluid movement. For example, the capital letter A is made from three separate pencil strokes. But, the lowercase a is made with just one continuous pencil stroke. Over time, writing with lower case letters is faster than writing with capitals, but at first, controlling the pencil to fluidly form lowercase letters with one stroke may be difficult for some students.  

With the Letter Leaders program, lowercase letters are taught in groups based on commonalities, including where on the page the letter starts and the type of lines needed to form the letter. Each letter is taught on one page with an example and practice lines. Students may practice forming short words and sentences at the end of each section using only the letters they have learned how to form correctly. This will help with fluidity, automaticity, good pencil control and beginning handwriting skills. Children practice making lowercase letters within these groups.

The following are the five Letter Leaders Lowercase Letter Groups:

• Week Twelve: Letter Leaders Lowercase Letter Group One—c, a, o, d, g, q, e
• Week Thirteen: Letter Leaders Lowercase Letter Group Two—,i r, n, m, p, j
• Week Fourteen: Letter Leaders Lowercase Letter Group Three—,l b, h, t, k, f
• Week Fifteen: Letter Leaders Lowercase Letter Group Four—u, w, y
• Week Sixteen: Letter Leaders Lowercase Letter Group Five—s, v, x, z

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