More Tactile and Kinesthetic Activities to Correct Letter Reversals Print out a few reversal letters (see letters below). Place these 8 ½ X 11 pages face up over the surface of a table. Call out the sound of a letter, and then ask your child to reach out and gently touch the correct page. Pour rice into the bottom of a cake pan. Have your student draw one of the easily-reversed letters with his fingers in the rice. Then gently shake the pan to erase and begin again. Each day, make one reversal letter out of playdough. You can also use packaged breadstick dough for this activity and have even more fun baking the letter in the oven.
Trace and cut out large reversals letters from sand paper. Call out a reversal letter and have your student select the correct sandpaper letter and then trace along that letter with his finger. Pick one reversal letter each day and put glue on a page in the shape of that letter Sprinkle the glue with rice, corn flakes, beans, or any vegetable you can chop very fine. Purchase thick spaghetti noodles and boil them until they are just soft enough to mold (you will be boiling them for less time than you would boil if you were eating them.) Place the noodles in cold water and cool them. Next, have your student form the each reversal letter. Let each letter dry and then glue each letter to card stock. Have your student draw or paste pictures around each letter that begin with the sound of that letter. Each day, mark out a reversal letter with masking tape onto the sidewalk or an old floor. Now have your student walk out that shape or ride over it with skates or a scooter board.
Print out a reversal letter (see letters below) onto an 81/2 by 11 paper or cardstock. Cut the letter up into puzzle pieces. Have your student put the pieces back together again to form the correct letter. Form the reversal letters out of a combination of pipe cleaners, lollipop sticks, and pop bottle tops. Cut out different pictures from magazines. Have your student paste the pictures around each letter that begin with the sound of that letter. Using large sketch paper, draw a large reversal letter using dots. Now have your student finger paint over those dots to form the letter. Find an object that begins with that day s reversal-letter sound. Cut out a stencil of that letter and use it to create a pattern of that letter onto any light, solid-colored wrapping paper. Now use the wrapping paper to wrap up the object that begins with the sound of that reversal-letter.
Spray some craving cream into a bowl. Call out the name of a reversal letter or speak out the sound of a reversal letter. Have your student dip her finger into the shaving cream and draw that reversal letter onto a table top. Together with your student, draw each reversal letter in the air modeling your motions for her with your whole arm. Now together, repeat your motions for each letter using just your pointer fingers. Print two reversal letters onto two 81/2 by 11 sheets of paper (see letters below). Tape each sheet of paper to the backs of two students. Call out the sound of one of the letters and have a different student trace over the correct taped letter with his pointer finger. Trace and cut out reversal letters from sand paper. Place all the letters in a box. Blindfold a student. Call out the name of the one of the reversal letters and have the blindfolded student search through the box until he finds the correct letter.
Make Cardboard Stencil Huts. Draw the shape of a simple hut onto cardboard (see sample hut drawing below, your hut drawing will be much bigger). Draw a reversal letter onto the front of your hut with a pencil. Using a utility knife, cut along your pencil outline and remove the cut-out sections. Using your newly-made stencil, draw the exact shape of the letter onto cardstock. Repeat this with all the reversal letters. Have your student fit each cardstock reversal letter into its proper hut. Here s a hut drawing to give you ideas.
Print out the reversal letters (see below) onto 81/2 by 11 cardstock. Lay the letters out on the floor. Begin reading a made-up story about a little boy who went down his own path tripping over objects along the way. Have each of the objects in your story begin with the sound of one of the reversal letters. Have the student pick up the correct reversal letter and bring it to you as you read about that letter s object. (CONTINUE BELOW)