Upper and Lowercase Letter Mats With Formation Guides – Foundation Font

Upper and Lowercase Letter Mats With Formation Guides – Foundation Font

These Upper and Lowercase Letter Mats With Formation Guides in Foundation Font are great for learning letter recognition and letter formation through play.

Features:

* All 26 letters with formation guides (numbers and arrows) in both uppercase and lowercase.

* NSW/ACT Foundation Font, but in many parts of Australia and New Zealand these letters are similar.

* Contains both the uppercase and lowercase version of the letter on the one page.

* Black and white

Uses:

* Letter formation tracing mats. Start at number 1 and trace in the direction of the arrows. This helps children learn correct letter formation. Laminate or place in a dry erase pouch and use with dry erase markers to use again and again. Or children can trace straight onto the paper with pencils or markers. Doing “rainbow writing” is a great way for the children to practise. For rainbow writing, children trace inside the letter several times, each time with a different color, making the letters “rainbow”.

* Phonics/Phonemic Awareness activities eg. Children cut and paste images onto the page that start with that letter (our Initial Sounds Picture Cards work well for this) or they could match the cards without pasting or use objects starting with that letter to match to the letter on the page.

* Play dough mat (laminate). Children place play dough inside the letters to to make its shape.

* Loose Parts Mat. Children place loose parts along the letters to help embed the shape in their memory.

* Craft Template: Children create an artwork eg. by drawing, painting inside the letter, pasting/gluing craft materials such as glitter, feathers, scrunched tissue paper etc.

* Letter Recognition Activities. Eg. Write a range of letters onto a sheet of dot stickers and children match and stick the right letter stickers around the right letter. You could also do this as a lowercase to uppercase matching activity.

* Letter Formation. Children trace inside the letters with their finger or with a pencil (laminate to use with dry erase markers). For letter mats with formation guides (eg. where to start and arrows to show direction) use these.

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Acknowledgement: This font was not created by WunderSparks and is not owned by WunderSparks, it was purchased with publishing license from Schoolfonts.