Watch me, then you
Write a lowercase letter big on the board while saying the path out loud: "Start at the top, pull down, bump around." Kids trace it in the air, then on paper. Hearing the same words every time gives their hand a script to follow.
Why it works: handing over the work step by step, from teacher to student, is one of the most widely used teaching frameworks (Pearson and Gallagher, 1983).
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