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3-Year-Olds聽|聽Beginning Writing
<b>Prep: 2 Minutes | Activity Time: 5 Minutes </b></p>\r\n<p>Children love to recognize and write their own names. At 3 years old, children can learn to spot the letters in their names, especially the first letter. They are beginning to notice the shape and even the sound their special letter makes. This activity provides your child with failure-free practice in tracing her name. Writing her own name is empowering and is a step in believing she is a writer.</p>\r\n"}} id=text-d74a7d2a30 class=cmp-text>
Prep: 2 Minutes | Activity Time: 5 Minutes聽
Children love to recognize and write their own names. At 3 years old, children can learn to spot the letters in their names, especially the first letter. They are beginning to notice the shape and even the sound their special letter makes. This activity provides your child with failure-free practice in tracing her name. Writing her own name is empowering and is a step in believing she is a writer.
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- Paper
- Highlighter
- Marker
<b>Step 1: </b>Write your child鈥檚 name on the paper with a marker in large, clear writing.</p>\r\n<p><b>Step 2: </b>Show your child how to trace over each letter in the name with a highlighter or different color marker. </p>\r\n"}} id=text-3c78c4c7a4 class=cmp-text>
Step 1: Write your child鈥檚 name on the paper with a marker in large, clear writing.
Step 2: Show your child how to trace over each letter in the name with a highlighter or different color marker.聽
<b>Step 1: </b>Write just one letter of your child鈥檚 name on a piece of paper in large print.</p>\r\n<p><b>Step 2:</b> Use your own marker to guide your child as she traces a letter. Let your child follow your hand movement as you write the letter. Writing her name in larger print can help little hands and fingers that may not be ready to write smaller letters yet.</p>\r\n<p><b>Step 3:</b> Provide different color markers or crayons and let your child trace the shape of the letter as often as she chooses.</p>\r\n"}} id=text-0f89a9f7f8 class=cmp-text>
Step 1: Write just one letter of your child鈥檚 name on a piece of paper in large print.
Step 2: Use your own marker to guide your child as she traces a letter. Let your child follow your hand movement as you write the letter. Writing her name in larger print can help little hands and fingers that may not be ready to write smaller letters yet.
Step 3: Provide different color markers or crayons and let your child trace the shape of the letter as often as she chooses.
<b>Step 1:</b> Write different names that your child can trace, such as names of family members, teachers, or the family pet. </p>\r\n<p><b>Step 2:</b> Encourage your child to draw a picture of the person or animal the name belongs to.</p>\r\n<p><b>Step 3: </b>Place all the pages together in a book that your child can look at and trace over again. When your child begins to recognize that by writing, she can make real things happen, her curiosity and interest in writing will increase.</p>\r\n"}} id=text-1f3f4dd668 class=cmp-text>
Step 1: Write different names that your child can trace, such as names of family members, teachers, or the family pet.聽聽
Step 2: Encourage your child to draw a picture of the person or animal the name belongs to.
Step 3: Place all the pages together in a book that your child can look at and trace over again. When your child begins to recognize that by writing, she can make real things happen, her curiosity and interest in writing will increase.