Letter Friends™
Handwriting Curriculum
Dear Parents and Teachers
This program is for Windows ONLY - See Instructions Below
The Letter Friends™ Program was designed with you in mind. My desire is that you will find this program easy to use and helpful in your home or classroom as you meet the needs of many different learning styles and levels of your children.
Letter Friends™ will introduce the line segments (vertical, horizontal, diagonal, and curved) presented as personalities. The story and modeled practices will enable children to SEE, HEAR, and FEEL how to make lines and letters. Children will learn how the letters are formed in a fun and practical way. Children will practice writing all upper and lower case letters. The program incorporates many required state and district standards for literacy.
The assembly of each unit is designed to be quick and easy.
The method of introduction of each letter will encourage practice, memory skills, and concepts that will be easy for the child to recall in many different applications.
Thank you for choosing Letter Friends™. I am confident that your children will enjoy it!
Sincerely,
Carol A. Collum Miller
The Letter Friends™ Program
Download Instructions
The downloadable file is a zipped file. You will need a program to unzip the files such as 7zip or WinZip. Once you have unzipped the files onto your computer, click the Letter_Friends_v3.exe file to start the program.
Program Materials
Interactive Letter Friends™ Program
- Interactive story, The Lines Who Became ABC Letter Friends
- Modeled practice for line segments
- Modeled practice for the Letter Formation Booklet
- Modeled practice of making the sounds for each letter
Letter Formation Booklet
- Practice pages for line segment personalities
- Practice pages for all upper and lower case letters as supplement to modeled lessons in the downloadable zip file.
Visual Features of Print
The interactive Letter Friends™ Program introduces the child to line segments (vertical, horizontal, diagonal, curved) presented as personalities. These personalities are first introduced in the short story, "The Lines Who Became ABC Letter Friends".
These line personalities draw the child’s attention to the visual features of print. When Unit One is presented in proper scope and sequence, the child will be able to FEEL, HEAR, and SEE how to make lines and form letters. The child will have the opportunities to :
- Label line segments using personalities from the story.
- Identify and describe line segments in environment, clothing, and letters.
- Reproduce line segments.
- Use line segments to describe and form letters.
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