Voices

Children should learn to write letters in the correct sequence. If you demonstrate with different voices, your students will quickly learn and memorize all the steps. This activity is filled with the repetition children need, but it is so much fun that the repetition is never boring. Many Voices videos are included in the Live Teaching Videos located in the Resource section of the Interactive Digital Teaching Tool.

Materials

• Large board, prepared with double lines

Activity

1. Help children find the step-by-step words in their workbooks.

Read the words together as children point.

Demonstrate the letter, saying the steps with the children. 2. Slowly demonstrate the letter again using a new voice.

Children join in by saying the steps and modeling your voice. Repeat. 3. Write the letter. Children put their pencils on the dot. They use their voices together to say the steps as they write. 4. Repeat the activity with different voices: high, low, loud, soft, slow, fast.