• Students will recognize characteristics of upper and lower case letters.

• Visual learner:  incorporates letter cards as visual aids
• Auditory learner: provides an opportunity to discuss key characteristics of each letter
•  Kinesthetic learner: engages students by allowing them to draw letters on a dry erase board or on chart paper or on a chalkboard

• Show the students an example of a straight line, a slant line, and a curvy line. Draw each of the lines on the chalkboard.

• Show the students all the letters of the alphabet and ask them what characteristics they see in each letter. 
• Explain to the students that letters are composed of these three lines: straight, slant, and curvy. Then write all the letters of the alphabet on the chalkboard in groups of line similarity. 

Here is an example of the upper case letter groups:

EFHILT – Straight line group

AKMNVWXYZ – Straight line and slant line group

BDGJPQRU – Straight line and curvy line group

COS – Curvy line group

 

Here is an example of the lower case letter groups:

ikltvwxyz – Straight line and slant line group 

abdefghjmnpqru – Straight line and curvy line group

cos – curvy line group

• Next, show one letter card and discuss the line characteristics of that letter.
• Continue to review and discuss  5-6 letter cards a day.

• Have students write letters on their individual dry erase board or on the chalkboard. 
• You should review each when the student has finished writing. 
• Once the student has written the letter correctly, ask them to erase the letter and write a different one. 
• Keep playing this activity as long as the students are interested. 
• If individual dry erase boards are not available for each student, then have students write on the classroom white board or chalkboard.

• Show individual students letters and ask them to correctly identify them.

• Explain to the students that knowing letters will help them to read and write.