C Pirate Letters: Handwriting Story Lowercase Letter Formation

Treasure-seeking pirates are continuing their handwriting adventure. This leads them to start learning the valuable skill of the C-shaped letters as they trace around objects in the sand. In this second group of letters, they learn: c, a, g, d, q, o, s, e.

Pre-reading skill with the story, the pirates recognize that they can not spell words without the vowel letters. Lucky, a helpful bird, is close by to mimic the vowel sounds and draw attention to vowel letters. The vowels: a, o, & e, share the ’c’ shape curve in this story. The illustrations in the story are used to show children the similar shapes and motions for this group of letters.

This is a great companion book for the popular Orton-Gillingham style of handwriting.

The lowercase letters are grouped to help improve muscle memory, picture a sensory experience to stimulate the brain for learning, and avoid common letter reversal errors. In a storybook style, the letters are grouped by similar starting points and curved strokes to speed up the handwriting process and improve letter print recognition for reading. This is a fun and memorable story to engage the interests of young students.

This is a wonderfully useful resource to use with Montessori-style sand trays.

This is part of a 4-book series for lowercase letters.

R’s Pirate Letters

I Pirate Letters

X Pirate Letters