Tracing Activities To Learn & Practice Letters

Tracing taps into multiple sensory learning channels, giving your child the opportunity to retain specific skill sets in the most lasting and memorable way *specific to them*. When children are having fun, they are more likely to learn and remember information. 

Tracing can take on many different forms and is an effective way for your multi-sensory learner to practice important pre-writing skills. When a child is in the very beginning stages of writing, it is also helpful to encourage proper directionality & formation through guide points and arrows. Tracing is a playful way to encourage: 

• Fine motor skills (a pre-cursor to writing)
• Hand control (tracing simple lines, curved lines and straight lines)
• Pre-writing skills and directionality (up, down, left, right, cross, diagonal up, diagonal down, across)
• Confidence in learning (mess-free and mistake-free)
• Both sides of the brain (say the letter out loud while you trace)

Tracing Letters With Your Finger: When it comes to early learning, the more senses that are stimulated, the more knowledge is retained. The tactile experience of TOUCH is essential to memory building. Always remember to encourage proper directionally and formation right from the start.  

Tracing Letters With Wikki Stix: Wikki Stix  are the perfect compliment to your teaching tool box and will allow your little learner to practice letter recognition and correct letter formation through a touch & feel approach. 

Textured tracing can:

• Facilitate cognitive development by (letter recognition)
• Promote hand & finger strength as you shape, stick, bend & trace
• Fine tune your child's pincer grip (a pre-cursor to pointing and pressing down)
• Improve motor planning skills by encouraging creative thinking, planning & design - follow the arrows for correct letter formation
• Fun to touch, easy to peel & reposition
• Mess-free & mistake- free to build confidence in letter formation and early learning in general

Tracing Letters With A Single Object: 

• Using a felt ball helps develop finger pinch
• The sensory experience of sliding the ball along the arrows and guide points helps embed proper directionality and letter formation
• Allow a Mess-Free & Mistake platform- your child is free  to build confidence in letter formation and early learning in general

Tracing Letters With Multiple Items (Gems & Jewels):

• Using the small objects helps develop a pincer grip
• The placement of the gems/jewels on the lines helps develop eye/hand coordination 
• Allow a Mess-Free & Mistake platform- your child is free  to build confidence in letter formation and early learning in general

Tracing With A Scented (Dry-Erase) Marker: 

• The use of scent as your child traces along the arrows and guide points helps your child’s motor planning memory 
• The feel of the slide of the marker provides a stimulating and memory sensory experience
• Holding the marker develops a pincer grip

Are you looking for play-based activities to further develop your child's learning skills and goals?  Busy Little Learners is an innovative early childhood program that follows a play-based & multi-sensory approach to teaching & learning. Our curriculum will foster your child’s self-regulation, sensory development and creativity through PLAY. Your child will create, investigate and explore through the use of bright colors, silly scents & fun textures. Sensory Together offers play-based curriculum programs, learning activities and sensory kits for a healthy sensory lifestyle and success in learning and beyond.  

 PLAY IS THE WAY