Oh, hi there. I'm Roxanne. You caught me writing a
letter to my friend. Well, not just one letter of the alphabet.
Lots of letters. C put letters together the right
way and you get words. Words show the ideas that you're
thinking in your head. So learning to write letters and words is a
great way to show people what your ideas are. Speaking of
letters, I can use letters to write my name for you.
My name is Roxanne. We start
with an upper case, are and
come down to the baseline, and then the rest of the letters or lower
case. Oh,
x, Hey.
And then we have two of the same letters in a row and
and and then we finish with
any learning to make
letters the right ways important so other people can understand what you're
writing. And that's why you and I are here today.
Oh, good. There's someone I'd like you to meet. Walk this
way. This is scribbles. Isn't he cute?
Say hide. Everyone scribbles, loves
to draw. We'll show them what you can do. My yellow pencil
friend.
That's really great. I mean, pretty soon we'll all be writing names to those pictures
like Tree Son. But
first things first toe. Learn how to write. You need to know how to hold your
pencil the right way. Some people hold their
pencil like this, but that's not the right way. This is
not the right way, either.
Neither is this. But none of those ways. Help
us learn to write. Well, let me show you the best way to hold your
pencil. First, lay your pencil on the table in
front of you like this. Next, you pinched
the pencil here and pick it up. Now comes the
fun part. You flipped the pencil around with your
other hand until it lands right next to your thumb.
I call it pinch and flip. Now you try it.
Pinch and flip.
Let's try it again. Pinch
am slip and one more
time. Pinch
and flip and the
pencil pension flip is the same, no matter which hand you
use. Okay, you know how to hold your pencil. Now you need
to know how to turn the paper that you're going to write on. If you're drawing
a picture like scribbles, it wouldn't matter how your paper was turned,
but when you write letters. It's important to have your paper in the right position.
You have two hands. Hey, I said,
too. This is the right hand if you use this
hand to write than your paper is turned this way to the left.
But if you're left handed, then you should turn your paper this way to
make writing easier. Since we're talking about the writing
paper, let's take a closer look at it. You can see my
letter stays within the lines, and that makes it so much easier to
read. You might be used to writing or drawing on paper with no
lines, but when we practice making letters and words, it helps to use
paper that has lines on it.
Look closely the lines. Here, you can see that there are three of
them. One two,
three. The line on top is called the headline.
Can you guess the name of the dotted line in the middle? Since it's in the
middle, it's called the midline. Finally, this
line is called the baseline. Thes lines help us to
practice making letters and words correctly so other people can read
what we're writing. Room letters go up, down
and all around. It's not very hard to make letters once you know
how, but it does take practice. Scribbles
hasn't learned how to write his letters yet. Maybe we can all learn together.
How would you like that, buddy?
Well, before we start to write letters, there are special strokes.
Toe learn. A stroke is just a way of making marks on
your paper. When you put strokes together, you get
letters. One of the strokes is called a vertical
line. That's just a fancy way of saying it stands up straight.
A tall vertical line like this one starts at the headline up top
and pulls straight down to the base line on the bottom.
But sometimes it starts the baseline and pushes
up to the headline.
Okay, scribbles. Let's start with a tall, vertical line.
That's a pretty good scribbles, but you started above the headline
Try again.
Oh, you were so close. But that's still not quite right.
Your line should be straight, not slanted. Try it one more
time. Oh,
that's it. Way to go. Hey,
well, now it's time for you to try making tall vertical lines
on paper. Get your line, paper and pencil ready. And
remember, you should Onley use a pencil if
you write with your left hand. Which way is your paper turned?
Correct? This way I use my right hand.
So I turned my paper this way. Don't write yet.
Watch first start on the headline and pulled
down all the way to the baseline Keeping the vertical line
straight. Now you try it, pick up your pencil
and make sure you're holding it the right way. Remember to pinch
and flip. Put your pencil at the beginning of the
first headline near the top of your paper and pulled
down to the baseline. Let's try it again. Put
your pencil on the headline and pulled down to
the baseline. Make sure you're lying this straight and you don't go
past the baseline. Now let's try vertical lines that go
from the baseline up to the headline. Put your
pencil on the baseline and push up to the
headline again, Pencil on the baseline
and push up to the headline.
No, I hear a lot of writing going on. Are you practicing?
Do well. Show us.
Wow, you really were practicing Very cool.
Did you know some vertical lines? Air short. That means they don't
always go from the headline to the baseline. They only touch the
midline and the baseline. Here's what short vertical strokes
look like. Instead of
starting at the headline, we could make a short vertical stroke starting on the
midline. Then we pulled down to the baseline.
Another way to make a short vertical stroke is to start on the
baseline and push up to the midline
so you can go either up or down. Start with your
pencil on the midline, not the headline, and pulled
down to the baseline again. Pencil on the
midline and pulled down to the baseline.
Don't go past the baseline Now Let's make some that go
from the baseline up to the midline. Put your
pencil on the baseline and push up to the
midline. Don't go past them in line again. Pencil
on the baseline and push up to the midline.
Your first writing strokes. Sorry, I gets hope.
Emotional At times I hear that
noise. I think it's coming from outside. Let's
go check it out.
I'm not sure about that one. Maybe it's coming from
the window. Whoa, Look at all those
going from left to right and right toe left.
Hey, that reminds me the next strokes. We're gonna learn. They're
called horizontal strokes and they go side to side just like the
Plains. Sometimes horizontal
strokes start up the headline and slide to the right
like this. Sometimes they started the
midline and slide like this,
and sometimes they slide across the baseline
for some letters. Horizontal strokes go the other way.
They started the midline and slide to the left like
this. It can also slide to the left on the
baseline like this.
So basically horizontal lines can go back and
forth right toe left this way. In that way, let's try
some. Oh, is your pencil ready?
Good. Let's start on a new headline. Slide this
way to the right and stop. Easy
enough. Now let's try the same thing on the mid line on the
midline. Slide to the right and
stop. Let's try it the other way. On the midline this
time. Move your pencil further across on the midline so you have room
to make another stroke. Now let's slide
right toe left and stop Good.
We made strokes on the headline and midline. Let's do the
same on the baseline on the new baseline.
Slide left to right and stop.
Leave some room and let's slide right toe left
and stop Teta. You did it.
Hey, scruples. How do you think the boys and girls did?
I guess that means you're doing great. Let's review what we've
practiced so far. First, make sure you're holding your pencil correctly.
Remember to pinch and flip. Next, make sure
your papers turned the correct way. Turn it this way.
If you use your left hand, turn your paper to the
left. If you use your right hand. Now we're going to write
the tall vertical line. Remember, then let's go.
Put your pencil at the beginning of a new headline and pulled
down to the baseline. Make sure you're not going over the
headline or under the baseline. Let's do another tall
vertical line, but this time we'll push up. Instead.
Put your pencil on the baseline and push up
to the headline That was the tall
And now let's practise short vertical lines. Put your
pencil in the midline and pull down to the baseline.
Next we'll write the short vertical stroke that goes up. Put your
pencil on the baseline and push up to the midline.
Make sure your strokes aren't going above the midline or below the baseline.
Now let's practice the horizontal strokes. Put your
pencil on the headline, slide to the right and
stop. Make sure your line. The street. Let's do it again.
But this time on the middle line, Pencil on the
midline. Slide to the right and stop.
Now let's move down to the baseline. Pencil on the
baseline, Slide to the right and stop.
Let's write the horizontal lines that go the other way. You know
this way. Okay, pencil on the midline.
Slide to the left and stop now one more.
But this time on the baseline. Pencil on the
baseline, Slide to the left and stop.
Look at all the new strokes you learned. You know, you should
be congratulated. Did you hear that?
Let's go check it out. Come on.
See what happens when you practice? People notice
scruples and I are really proud of you. What do you have there,
buddy? Wow, You've really been
practicing.
Well, that's what you need to do to practice your writing. Up,
down and around. See? Next