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Practicing Straight Lines
Pre-writers get ready to print letters with this tracing worksheet. Youngsters complete two images by tracing lines. They start at each dot, following the arrows from top to bottom. There are 13 straight lines and one circle to complete,...
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Creating Letter-shape Patterns
Help your budding writers become familiar with letter shapes using a pattern worksheet. They examine three patterns, tracing a dotted line to continue them to the end of the page. For each, they also draw the pattern freehand below. This...
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Ice-Creamer Tracer
In this tracing an ice-cream cone worksheet, students practice using fine motor skills to trace curved and straight lines. Students trace one picture.
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Moving Left to Right
Get a head start on writing with this fun visual activity. Learners move their pencils from left to right, following the dotted lines. There are four lines here, each following an object's path. Writers get practice with curved, twisted,...
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It's Raining: Pre-writing Skill Practice
In this pre-writing worksheet, students trace 14 straight lines that are raindrops in a picture. Kids also trace 4 umbrella shapes with curved lines. Students color the picture.
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Pre-Printing Trace the Dotted Lines
In this pre-printing practice worksheet, learners trace 4 different types of dotted lines to practice their fine motor skills. They start at a fly, and trace a looped line, a curved line, a square line, and a straight line to get to the...
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When A Line Meets Itself
Students investigate the linear characteristics of cultural art. In this art analysis lesson, students discover the Pre-Columbian Chimu culture and the many masks they created. Students identify the different shapes and lines in their...
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Introduction to Curve Stitching - Line Designs
Students develop their awareness that straight line segments can produce the illusion of a curve and helps them recognize and describe number patterns and geometric fundamentals.
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Moving Left to Right
To get scholars ready for the curves, twists, and turns of alphabet letters, give them this tracing exercise. Early writers follow dotted lines with their finger from left to right first, then trace it with a pencil. The images are...
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Tracing and Coloring Practice
In this pre-printing worksheet, students trace the straight and curved lines in a large picture of a barn. Students color the picture any way they like.
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Tracing Lines and Circles
In this tracing learning exercise, learners trace a variety of straight, curved, diagonal and circular lines. There are no directions.
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Graphs
In this graphing worksheet, students read information and study diagrams about graphing. Students complete 3 graphing activities.
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Sea Shell Writing Skill Cards
In this pre-writing worksheet, students trace along the dotted lines on cards that the teacher has printed and laminated. They trace straight, curved, and zig zag lines on three pages.
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Firemen Fighting For /F/
Students complete a variety of activities related to the /f/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, and trace and write the letter F. Students then listen to the book "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish," and identify the...
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Letter Dance
Students identify the shape of the letter their name begins with, then use their arms to trace the shape of the letters with their hands. They do this to the movement of music.
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The Letters G, J, and Q
Students are introduced to the letters g, j, and q. As a class, they answer questions about which letter begins with a straight stoke and which one has a slide left stroke. They trace and write the three letters in their capital forms.
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Optics: Mirrors and Lenses
Did you see that or did I imagine it? Optical illusions are often created with mirrors and lenses, and here is a presentation that covers many different types of mirrors and lenses and how they work. Flat, concave, and convex mirrors, as...
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Aboriginal Hand Prints
A part of a study of Australian Aboriginal culture, class members listen to a Dreamtime story about a father who stenciled his handprint on a rock wall. Class members then make their own hand print art representative of themselves...
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Letter Dance
Students listen to a piece of classical music and identify the letter that their first name begins with. They use their bodies and movement to make the letter shapes and set the movements to the music.
