stories or images to help with letter reversals?

[summerreading]

I'm realizing the only way DS will remember the direction of the tricky letters if there is a visual story to go with it. We figured out one: "p dives into the pool" to remember to dive down first and not make a q instead.

 

Please share anything you use like this. The sillier the better.

[Kanin]

P dives into the pool... that's great! I'll have to use that one!  

 

You could also draw P as a little chicken "pecking" the ground... :)

Edited June 27, 2016 by Mainer

[maize]

We say "b with a bump" to remind us the line comes first then the bump, and "round about d" because the round part comes first.

 

Not very creative but it seems to help.

[summerreading]

P dives into the pool... that's great! I'll have to use that one!  

 

You could also draw P as a little chicken "pecking" the ground... :)

 

oh that's cute!

 

We say "b with a bump" to remind us the line comes first then the bump, and "round about d" because the round part comes first.

 

Not very creative but it seems to help.

 

I'll give this one a try too. We were using "b has a belly, d wears a diaper" but it's not sticking.

 

I'm thinking it's time to invest in some technology, I'm imagining him reciting these things in his head as an adult . :)

[Kanin]

oh that's cute!

 

 

I'll give this one a try too. We were using "b has a belly, d wears a diaper" but it's not sticking.

 

I'm thinking it's time to invest in some technology, I'm imagining him reciting these things in his head as an adult . :)

 

Yeah, the b/d thing is so hard. 'Cause if b has a belly, I guess it could be pointing either way... very tricky. 

[nature girl]

Yeah, the b/d thing is so hard. 'Cause if b has a belly, I guess it could be pointing either way... very tricky. 

 

That's actually how I learned as a kid (although it was belly and "derriere," LOL.) The belly is walking forward in the direction you read.

 

My DD keeps doing her g's and j's curling backward, no matter how many times we practice. Sometimes 3's as well...It's so hard because once something gets ingrained in the mind/hand, it can be really hard to correct.

[RKWAcademy]

bat before ball makes a b.  doorknob before door makes a d.  I found a printable somewhere with an image of a bat and ball making b and the door for d.  My son referred to the picture hanging on the wall a lot!

 

 

[MerryAtHope]

Here's an article on reversals that has other strategies you can use in addition to analogies.

 

If you have Handwriting Without Tears, those methods help prevent and correct reversals. (My daughter used to love the story for g, where she would "catch George!"

 

When we say /b/ our lips are closed in a straight line. The straight line comes first in b. When we say /d/ our lips are open. The circle comes first in d. (This is helpful for using one-stroke writing methods versus the ball and stick printing method. In HWT, b is a "diver" letter, while d is a "magic c" letter--so the formation is very different and helps to separate these two.)

 

“q†is for “queen.† The queen has a curl (show a font that shows the “hook†or “curl†on the stem of the q).

 

6 sits, 9 stands up

 

[displace]

We use HWT. We do daily h and b. They stand for honey bee to remember b starts off as h.

We do daily magic c letters : c a d g o q. We do daily numbers and name and weekly alphabet. Reversals are still hit or miss with spontaneous writing.

 

For numbers, they all (1-7) start at left upper corner. 8 does its own thing, and 9 starts at right upper corner because it was tired of waiting for all the numbers to go ahead of it.

Edited July 11, 2016 by displace