Writing

I found a way to help my son with writing his letters. It was taught to me in one of my classes when i was a day school teacher.  Its been very helpful and its pretty simple.

The alphabet is made of of these simple symbols.

 The symbols can be rearranged to look like so

Also I combined some symbols to make it a bit easier for Ry

Bought him this book to help.

I first started by dotting them out for him. I did them all big.

Then eventually the dotted symbols became less and less and  I would write the symbol on one side of the page and he would copy it on his own for the rest of the lines. 

Once I was confident that he could do the symbols on his own, i began to put them in letter form.

He still has some trouble with curves, so on easy letters, like H and K I'll do a couple lines of the letter and then add some curved symbols to give him practice.

This is the letter g. He is doings go great with them. =)

Here are some examples of how the symbols make up letters.

 I also got a whiteboard and dry erase marker so that if he had trouble he could practice with out any lines and just get the basic shape. I have a dry erase board for myself so he copies my movements step by step. =) hope this helps. If you have any questions please ask.