Trace with Me: Pre-Handwriting Practice
A pre-handwriting workbook that starts with lines, curves, and circles, then puts those same strokes to work forming uppercase and lowercase letters.
$5.99
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2026 Pre-K Curriculum Kit
Trace with Me: Pre-Handwriting Practice
Before your child can write letters, his pencil needs to learn the moves. Trace With Me: Pre-Handwriting Practice builds the fine-motor control and basic strokes that come before handwriting, beginning with lines, curves, and circles and gradually progressing to uppercase and lowercase letters.
Instead of jumping straight into the alphabet, your child starts by tracing around objects, following lines, and completing pictures. These early activities give him practice controlling his pencil while working with the same strokes he'll eventually combine to form letters.
Once those movements become familiar, the workbook puts them to work. Your child begins tracing and writing uppercase and lowercase letters using the lines, curves, and circles he has already practiced. It's a logical progression that makes letter formation feel like the next step rather than an entirely new skill.
The full-color pages keep practice inviting, while clear, step-by-step directions tell you exactly what your child should do. And with generous 1.25" line spacing, little hands have plenty of room to practice without being asked for tiny, precise handwriting before they're ready.
Pages are perforated, too, so you can tear out one activity at a time if an entire workbook feels like a lot to tackle. Hand your child today's page, let him focus on that job, and tuck the rest away for another day.
An included answer key makes it easy to check activities without any special handwriting training on your part.
Trace With Me: Pre-Handwriting Practice keeps the goal appropriately simple: first, control the pencil; then, master the strokes; and finally, put those strokes together to form letters. Because before beautiful handwriting comes a whole lot of lines, curves, and circles.
How to Use Trace With Me: Pre-Handwriting Practice
- Start at the beginning. The activities are intentionally sequenced from basic lines, curves, and circles to actual letter formation, so work through the book in order rather than jumping ahead to the alphabet.
- Plan on about 2 pages a week. Keep sessions short and comfortable. At this age, a few careful pencil strokes are more valuable than pushing through a page after your child's hand is tired.
- Let your child trace around objects, follow paths, and complete pictures as independently as he can. The generous 1.25" spacing gives developing hands plenty of room to work.
- Focus on control, not perfection. Wobbly lines and wandering curves are part of learning. If your child is gripping the pencil comfortably and becoming more deliberate with his movements, he's making progress.
- Let the progression do its job. When letters appear, point out how the lines, curves, and circles he's already practiced come together to make them. Suddenly, all those earlier tracing exercises have a purpose.
- Use the perforated pages if they're helpful. Tear out one page at a time for a child who's distracted by a whole workbook—or leave everything bound together if he'd rather see his progress accumulating.
There is no need to rush handwriting readiness. Work steadily through Trace With Me, keep pencil time pleasant, and give those little hands time to catch up with all the big ideas in your child's head.
Publisher: Carson Dellosa
Age Recommendation: 3-8
Grade Recommendation: PreK-2nd
Faith-Based: No
Consumable: Yes
Pages: 128
Size: 7.8" x 10.6"
ISBN: 9781483845890
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