Multi-Sensory Name Recognition/ Sight Words

Well, just wanted to throw out an idea that expands on the multi-sensory handwriting.

Recently my niece came to visit me, and we worked on recognizing and writing her name!  As we were driving around she started recognizing the letter D saying, "That's my letter! That's a D!"

Here's the process for multi-sensory name recognition (and/or sight words).  Remember that it is REPETITIVE and PREDICTABLE.  This routine will help the children remember better:

1.  Have the child watch you write it 3 times while saying each letter (OG recommends writing the word in red.)

2.  Sky write the word while saying it 3 times (sometimes we also write it on the carpet).

Step 4

3.  On a piece of paper, have the child's name (or the sight word) written.  Put the BUMPY PAD on top of the paper and trace each letter while saying the letter's name.  This is done 3 times!

4.  Put the PAPER on top of the bumpy pad and trace the name (or sight word) three times WTIH A CRAYON!  (Remember that the crayon adds a different sensory feedback to the student that will help them retain what you are teaching them more and tracing the letter first will help the student write the letters, name, and/or sight word correctly...putting it correctly in their memory.)

5.  On the back of the page traced, the student can write the name or word three times own their own.  For this step, I let the students use a pencil, colored pencil, etc...