For teachers and tutors
About Tracing Words
Word tracing for adults who can already trace single letters. The learner sees a short picture word, such as cat, dog, sun, bus, cup, pen, bed, hat, egg or box, and traces its letters from left to right with a finger. Every word has three letters or fewer, so a first word can be finished in one short session. Seeing the picture next to the word links the letters to a meaning.
How to use it
- Look at the picture and the word.
- Trace the first letter.
- Trace the next letters, left to right.
- Read the whole word when you finish.
Use it in a class
Use this after the letter tracing page. Ask students to say each word aloud as they trace it, then write it on paper without the screen. The words are short and common, so they also work as a first set of words to read.