Preschool Prewriting Practice with Letter A

Let’s do some preschool prewriting practice with letter A!

I’m not typically a fan of worksheets for young children but my preschooler has been obsessed with writing and prewriting activities since one of her ‘big kid’ (Kindergarten) friends shared her homework with her. Ever since then, she has been constantly asking for her own “word work” and “homework” to do.  Even though it’s not something I generally make I decided to whip up these simple preschool prewriting practice sheets using the Letter A. These simple tracing sheets are great for hands-on pre-writing practice.  Plus my daughter LOVES them!

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Preschool Prewriting Practice With Letter A

Materials:

• Prewriting Practice With Letter A Printable (below)
• Laminator
• Dry Erase Markers

Just print the free template for these prewriting practice letter strips (below) and you’re done! I prefer to laminate these so that my daughter and the daycare kids can use them over and over. It also saves me from having to print a bunch of sheets that will just get thrown away after one use.

Once I printed, cut, and laminated them I added them to our writing center for the kids to practice with.

My daughter was so excited to start doing her “work” that she jumped into it as soon as I set them out.  She and the other kids have revisited them several times a day all week long.

I decided to create this prewriting practice with the letter A because 1.) it’s the first letter of the alphabet and 2.) my daughter and each of the kids in my daycare all have the letter A in their name and we’ve been focusing on learning about letters in our names.  Plus my daughter wanted something that looked similar to the ‘homework’ her big kid friend had shared with us.

I do pre-writing practice with my toddlers and preschoolers because they are easy activities that help children prepare for writing.  These activities teach them proper pencil grasp, strengthens muscles in the forearm and hands, helps children practice coordinating multiple muscles at once.

For us, this activity was more of a basic prewriting activity than anything else. I don’t expect my preschoolers to be making perfect letters after this but they do understand the structure of the letter better and they are much more proficient with their hand/eye coordination skills and their pencil grasp has greatly improved!

Because the girls loved it so much I’m thinking I may actually make a few more in the future.  Do you have a favorite pre-writing printable that your kids love? Leave a link in the comments so I can check it out!

DOWNLOAD OUR PRE-WRITING PRINTABLES:

Pre-Writing Printable With Letter A (Free)

Pre-writing with Letter B (Free)

**Now Available!** I never planned to make a full set of these but after all the email requests, I decided to partner with my friend good friend Jamie, of Play to Learn Preschool, to create a full set these prewriting cards. We call the set A to Z tracing cards and they are now available to purchase! Find the My First Tracing Cards pack on her Teachers Pay Teachers store today!

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