Literacy: Sound Writing without the Writing

In our K phonics text, Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons, there's a "sound writing" task at the end of the lesson.  Little Kid finds fine motor hard, so I try to separate pencil skills from reading skills.  Too hard to do together.  Montessori schools use these sandpaper letters to introduce letter sounds.  A child traces the letter with two fingers and says the sound.  We use that same routine for whatever sounds Little Kid is supposed to be "writing" that day in his book.


Notice that these are right handed letters, meaning the they are meant to be held with the left hand and traced with the right, hence the space on the right hand side.