Author D Passmore Books

  Now available on Amazon  Third book of the handwriting stories  for lowercase letter formation. Letters:  i, j, l, t, f, k. Treasure-seeking pirates want to start digging for their treasure. What they find in the sand leads them to start learning the straight line letters.  These letters are the third handwriting group they learn: i, j, l, t, f, k. The straight line letters follow the tracks of the little turtle hatchlings that are coming out of the sand.   I n this storybook, the lowercase letters are grouped to help improve muscle memory and indicate a common starting point. The pictures illustrate a sensory experience of writing in the sand to stimulate the brain for learning. With letters grouped by similar starting points and straight down strokes it can speed up the handwriting process and improve letter print recognition for reading. Images of the letters share the same shape to help avoid common letter reversal errors. Special attention to ma...

: Handwriting Storybook Lowercase Letter Formation Find it on Amazon This is the second book in the series  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. Presented with a fun and memorable story to engage the interests of young students. This is the second group of letters that they learn: c, a, g, d, q, o, s, e. These letters all share the common c shape. They also start to recognize vowel sounds, with the help of a colorful bird. The first book in this series is: R's Pirate Letters. Find it on Amazon . --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Working as a teacher,  I have found that grouping the letters together like ...

  : Handwriting storybook lowercase letter formation  r, n, m, h, b, p. New Book Release on Amazon This is the first book in the Series Treasure-seeking pirates are distracted by a new adventure.  That leads them to start learning the valuable skill of handwriting.  The first letters they learn are: r, n, m, h, b, p. This is the first book in the series Pirate 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. With letters that are grouped by similar starting points and down strokes to speed up the handwriting process and improve letter print recognition for reading. Paired with a fun and memorable story to engage the interests of young students. _____________________________________________________________________ Working as a teacher, I have found that a lot of students struggle with this question:  Where to start the letters?...

Very excited to release my latest book: Coming out in Hardcover soon! Softcover is already available  978-0-473-47258-0 Awesome Animal Alphabet Poems: ABC After many years of teaching and looking for the perfect handwriting program to blend together in my classroom curriculum.  I decided to make my own letter formation poems & pictures. This book is my first step towards teaching the lower case letter while learning about really awesome animals at the same time.   Start at the green dot and trace the arrows.  This can help kids learn the correct starting and stopping points of letters. Tracing the actions of the animals with the corresponding letter sounds should help the kids to make the connection between letter formation and letter sounds. Using these action poems for the animal should help them remember how the letter is formed and make that visual connection too.   Poems are more descriptive than saying; “a l...

978-0-473-46320-5 My new book with flashcards pages and teacher notes on the back pages. The back cover has the reversed view of letters for a teacher to use as a reference. Order book Here Air Writing is a fun way to use play-based learning.  It is simple and a low prep activity.  There is one important thing to remember when using air writing:   when you are facing another person,  the view will look reversed to them.   It is the mirror effect.  Your right will be their left. So as a teacher, when I am facing a student, and they ask how do I make a letter h? I need to remember to turn the h backward, so they see the correct view. For me: it is a big stick down then bump to the left.  For them:  they see a big stick down and it bumps to the right.  ( the correct way) It takes a little bit of extra thought before making the letters. One letter at a time is easy! But w...

If A Pig Could Paint Coming out in Hardcover soon! Softcover is already available  978-0-473-44305-4 Find it on Amazon today June 2018 Encouraging fun ways to paint with or without a brush. Look for my Painting  themed resources on: TPT Teachers Pay Teachers Shop Name- Pure Joy Teaching I am so very excited to say that this book received a  great review from the class of room 6.  A joyful little girl in the front row could see the pig was  hiding the paints in the hay bail picture.  The class did not think that the pig  would share the paints  with the other pets.     On one of the final pages,  there is a Pet Art Museum illustration.   Lots of voices all at once gave a  huge gasp and said “Wow!”    Then there were lots  of smaller voices commenting on which picture they  liked best in the Pet Art Museum. ...

978-0-473-43857-9 You can buy on amazon  When walruses want waffles, is a silly book imagining -  what walruses would do to get more of those wonderful waffles. Real walrus facts are listed in the back to add a bit of education to the silly fun. As a teacher, I like to make learning fun.   This book will fit well in a classroom that uses the letter of the week theme for W, or an arctic theme. Check out my teaching supplies for math: Teachers pay Teachers shop Download and make your own feed the walrus math game. Get downloaded game HERE. If you have a story about reading this  book to your classroom,  please feel free to send me a note  or pictures of your art.  Let me know how much fun the kids are having. walrusueswantwaffles@gmail.com & Have Pure Joy Teaching