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A notebook page of practised letters in pencil, with soft daylight on the paper.
Writing · Coming Q3 2026

Multisensory letter formation.

A movement-first letter-formation system — sky-ground-grass paper, directional cues and consolidation strips. For Foundation Phase hands that fight the page.

R145 · A4 PDF · 32 pages · Coming Q3 2026

Pricing in ZAR · International orders welcome — email for invoice
— About this pack

Letter formation through the body, the hand, then the page.

Three pages of gross-motor letter introduction — air-writing, sand-tracing prompts, finger-painting templates — before any pencil hits paper. Letter families taught in stroke groups, not alphabetical order, because that is how the hand learns them.

Lowercase first, then uppercase. Each letter has a short verbal prompt printed alongside the directional cues so the teacher can model the language while the children draw. No page asks a child to copy more than three letters at a time.

Most appropriate for Grade R, Grade 1, and Grade 2 catch-up. Useful for occupational-therapist supplementary work and for homeschool parents teaching handwriting at home.

— What's inside

Thirty-two pages, body-first.

Block 01

Gross-motor warm-up

Air-writing, sand-tracing prompts and finger-painting templates — three pages before any pencil work begins.

Block 02

Lowercase by stroke family

c-family, l-family, r-family, hump-family. Directional arrows and a short verbal prompt on every letter spread.

Block 03

Uppercase set

Same stroke-family logic, scaled up. Sky-ground-grass paper at the right size for early Grade 1 hands.

Block 04

Consolidation strips

Short three-letter strips for the children who need extra repetitions before moving to the next stroke family.

Throughout

Reversal-prone letters

b/d, p/q and the usual suspects get their own consolidation pages with extra directional cues.

Throughout

Teacher script

The verbal prompt that goes with each letter, printed on the page so the teaching language stays consistent.

— Licensing

A licence per teacher, not per child.

Single-teacher
One teacher, one classroom, unlimited prints for that classroom's children. The default included with this purchase.
Classroom-pack ×4
Up to four teachers in the same school, same grade. Available at checkout — typically 3× the single-teacher price.
School-wide
Whole-school remedial-library licence. For Foundation Phase departments. Email hello@chelsicryer.co.za for a quote.
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