Left-to-Right Reading

These animals need to find their homes! Young scholars help them by drawing lines from each animal on the left to its habitat on the right. There is no guessing to be done here, though; pairs are directly across from one another. They...

To get scholars ready for the curves, twists, and turns of alphabet letters, give them this tracing exercise. Early writers follow dotted lines with their finger from left to right first, then trace it with a pencil. The images are...

Get a head start on writing with this fun visual learning exercise. Learners move their pencils from left to right, following the dotted lines. There are four lines here, each following an object's path. Writers get practice with curved,...

In this positions of shapes worksheet, students practice recognizing left and right by coloring the 4 shapes according to directions.

Before learners become writers they need to feel comfortable moving a pencil from left to right in various patterns. Use these exercises to give budding printers some fine motor practice. They complete three patterns by tracing a dotted...

Looking for suggestions on how to organize a creating writing workshop? For topic suggestions appropriate for various grade levels? Check out a resource packet, designed for English language arts instructors, that is packed with ideas...

Left to right progression is an important focus skill for kindergarteners; we really need to help our students get used to working from left to right every time! This instructional activity is something easy you can do to remind your...

Oh no! The kittens have lost their mittens! Help young learners develop fine-motor skills by drawing straight lines from three kittens to their pair of mittens. Use this to show young learners that things move left to right, just like...

Teach students to remind themselves (and train their eyes and brains) to go from top to bottom, left to right and page by page! This lesson includes a catchy song to the tune of Mary had a Little Lamb to help students remember this...

A short animation that explains the left-to-right orientation of reading and writing the English language.