Cursive Playdough

Mary Ann Herring, a third grade teacher at Mo. School for the Deaf in Missouri

My students are really motivated when I teach cursive writing because we form each letter with playdough before we write it on paper. I require that the playdough be in one continuous snake to make the letter so that the students see the proper direction that each letter is formed. Also, I group the letters by shape. For example, I start with i, t, then l and e.