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Why did the folks at
Candy 4WAY Phonics create this printable
resource package entitled: Correcting Letter Reversals
Package and price it at just $3.97?
We priced this package at
just $3.97 to make it affordable for everyone. We created this package
because a number of children have trouble with letter reversals all the
way up until the third grade. When a child
reverses letters, especially b’s and
d’s, as well as p’s,
q’s and g’s,
and sometimes w’s and
m’s, that child is experiencing difficulty
distinguishing the correct position, direction, and spacing of letter
parts. He often has a question in his mind: “Is the circle in the letter
d to my left or to my right of the straight line?” or “Is the straight
line sticking down from the letter p
located above the line on the paper
or below the line on the paper?”
On the other hand, it’s
actually quite natural for children to be confused about some letter
positions. Letters like b,
d, p,
q, g,
m, w
do, indeed, have similar shapes and positions, and young children do not
naturally distinguish their differences. Children often view objects
all at once in three dimensions, so viewing letters in two dimensions is
new to them.
For example, if a chair has been knocked down and is resting on its
side, a child will simply pick up the chair and place it upright so she
can sit down. She won’t stop to notice if the chair is facing sideways
or upside down when she finds it, she’ll just put it in the position
that enables her to sit down.
Furthermore, she will see all the dimensions of the chair
all at once.
To her, the top of the chair is the chair, the side of the
chair is the chair, and the back of the chair
is the chair.
The whole thing is the chair, so any part of the chair
is the chair -- it doesn't matter in what
position the chair is found.
Likewise, this is the
way young children view letters. Children do not naturally notice the
position of letters or the curves of letters or whether one letter is
facing the opposite direction from another letter. A child just sees a
whole letter. Likewise, when a child prints a letter, he simply draws the
letter in some kind of position on the line in order to get it down in
print and move on. He may not realize that a b should be facing the
opposite direction from a d or that a
g should be facing the opposite
direction from a p. He may not realize that a
g has a curve at the
bottom and that a p does not. He may not see that even though a
g and a
q are both facing the same direction, that the
g has a curved line at
the bottom and the q does not.
However, although it is normal
for young children ages 3 through 8 to sometimes miss these letter distinctions,
some children continue to confuse
b and d; they
continue to confuse p
q
and g, and they continue to confuse
m and w. In other words, they
continue to consistently,
almost all the time, confuse these letters.
These students often continue to have questions such as: “Is the circle in the
letter d to my left or to my right of the straight line?” or “Is the
straight line in the letter p
above the line on the paper or below the
line on the paper?”
This is why it is important for us to head
off these seeing and writing troubles early on by offering letter-reversal
activities as soon as a child begins to write his letters. Thus, activities and multisensory tools
that help children see the correct positions of letters can often
eliminate potential problems before they have a chance to take root.
Furthermore, older children that have not had adequate practice
distinguishing between similar-shaped, letters need to stop and take the
time to learn to read and write letters correctly.
For this
reason, we at Candy 4WAY Phonics have put together this
Letter Reversal Multisensory
package entitled: The Multisensory Correcting Letter Reversals
Package.
This Printable
INSTANT DOWNLOAD Resource contains:
*
Multisensory Letter Reversal Wall Cards illustrating the most commonly
reversed letters
*
Dot-to-dot Multisensory Handwriting Sheets for the most commonly
reversed letters
*
The Letter Reversal Matching Game
* Large, Printable Letter Cards
*
Twenty Letter Reversal Activity Worksheets
* Coloring Pages for the most commonly
reversed letters
* Many Tactile and
Kinesthetic Activity Ideas
It is important to remember
that much of what a child learns and remembers is based upon his past
experiences and
perceptions (those conclusions he reaches and the
pictures he paints in his mind of people and events). One analogy would
be when a child listens to a story read aloud. As he listens, he
creates
perceptions of what he hears, and those perceptions help him to
understand and remember what he hears. He is then free to
relate those
perceptions to other perceptions he has stored away in his memory.
In fact, this is why it is so important whenever we are teaching a
child to comprehend what she hears or reads, that we ask that child not
just basic questions such as: Who? What? and When? but also questions
such as: “Have you ever been in a dark room similar to the one in which
this little boy found himself?” or “Why do you think the little girl
enjoyed slurping up the peanut butter topping her mother poured on top
of her ice cream? Do you know anyone else who likes ice cream with
peanut butter topping?” These
inferential
questions enable a child to
learn, picture,
remember and relate with what she hears and reads.)
So it is with letter reversals.
Just as inferential questions help a child
retain what he reads and hears others read to him, so, also, the
use of multisensory tools and written, physical, and game-centered
practice centered around those tools can help a child
retain the correct position of letters. As a child
continues learning, picturing,
remembering and relating with those letters that tend to get reversed such
as: b, d,
g, p, and
q, he eventually remembers how to read and write them
correctly; he eventually develops a proper perception for the correct
position of letters and their parts.
Therefore, we are delighted to offer this affordable, printable, letter
reversal package. It is our hope that children who struggle with letter
reversals will find their way through the process of correction and come
out the other end feeling smart, dripping with courage, and bubbling
over with an ever-increasing confidence in their reading skills.
Sincerely,
Carol Kay, President
Candy 4WAY Phonics
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Multisensory Correcting Letter Reversals
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