Script font - the script with which children learn to write fluently. Each word has a continuous line. Writing motor skills are encouraged and fine motor skills are trained.
Sand letters (sand paper letters) are used to develop and train eye-hand coordination and to prepare for reading and writing.
Due to the advancing digitalization, the process of handwriting is put under great pressure. However, handwriting is an important or even very important qualification (according to a survey among teachers,> 95% consider handwriting to be very important.)
Development of eye-hand coordination. Hear, see and feel the combination of sound and written signs.
Preparation of word structure, reading and writing.
Children feel the letters, learn the typical course and shape of each letter by following the sand line.
Commitment:
for children who are sensitive to the language and show interest in letters, mostly from 3 years. But they can also be used in many other areas, so these letters are also used in migration training.
Methodical - didactic advice
After a variety of language games in which the child identifies sounds in our language, the educator selects a sandpaper letter and moves the index and middle finger several times over the letter and the child as well. Then the teacher speaks the letter, the child speaks the sound and the teacher names a few words that begin with that sound. The procedure continues with a 2nd and 3rd letter, which differ greatly in sound and form. The second and third stages of the three-stage lessons follow.
Second stage / further exercises:
- the child feels familiar letters with closed eyes, words with the initial sound are searched for
- the child brings the sandpaper letter to a child whose name contains the sound or to an object in the room
- Small objects are sorted according to initial, inlaid and final sound
- Child chooses a letter and calls all children whose names begin with or contain this sound
- Words of animals etc. are searched for, for example starting with "E" - the associated figures (miniatures) or pictures are assigned.
Third stage: The educator asks the child for the name of the letter.
Size of the boards:
19 cm wide 12 cm high (a, c, e, m, n, o, r, s, u, v, w, x, z)
19 cm wide 14.5 cm high (i, ä, ö, ü)
19 cm wide 19 cm high (b, d, g, h, k, l, p, t, y, q
19 cm wide 21.5 cm high (j)
19 cm wide 26 cm high (f, ß)
26cm wide 19 cm high (qu - letter combination)
each sheet has a material thickness of 3 mm
This material is not a toy but an educational teaching material.
Storage box can be ordered as an accessory.
Other fonts and languages are already available or are being planned
Capital letters, lat. Initial script, Austrian school script 95, Turkish script, block letters.
