Read with an adult. Take your time. You can say, point, draw or write your answer.
1 Let's look together
Sit comfortably with your paper supported. Hold your pencil in a way your adult helps you practise.
Watch where a letter starts. Follow its direction slowly. Letters need practice, but you do not need to rush.
c → a → dC A D0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Look, point and talk with your adult.
2 Watch how I do it
My adult models lower-case c, starting near the top and curving round. I make it in the air, then on paper. We compare my shape with the model.
3 Your turn
Do lower-case a and capital A look exactly the same?
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Let's check together
No. They are different forms of the same letter.
4 Try it away from the page
Practise a small family of letters using your school's formation model. Include capitals and digits over repeated sessions.
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Adult notes · prerequisites, safety and coverage
Use an adult's demonstrated strokes and the school's agreed handwriting style. Static type is not a stroke-order diagram. Support left-handed writers and motor needs; full animated formation models remain to add.
Read instructions aloud. Word-reading practice must match the child's taught sounds. The phonics pages support, but do not replace, the school's systematic synthetic phonics programme. Shared stories are adult-read unless the child can decode them. Re-read and practise daily.
Practise comfortable pencil use and correct letter and digit formation.