One of the most common problems we hear about from Left-Handers Club members and people who contact us for advice is that their young children are having trouble with writing, cannot seem to get the hang of certain letters, and are getting into trouble with their teachers.

We have produced this guide to help your left-handed child form the letters of the alphabet with the minimum of difficulty. Problems can arise because right-handers naturally pull their pen across the page and can easily make left-to-right strokes following the direction of writing. Left-handers are pushing their pen across the page, and when making left-to-right strokes this can cause the pen or pencil to dig into the paper so it does not write smoothly.

If you are not aware of these differences (like most right-handed teachers!) this can cause confusion and great frustration as your child starts to write. With our guidance and the letter practice sheets, you can stop this ever becoming a problem for your child.

This guide contains tips on writing left-handed, followed by practice sheets showing the correct formation of each letter in upper and lower case. Your child can start by going over the black letter, starting at the light dot and following the arrows, then move on to the greyed version, and then go freestyle between the guide lines (the letters are spaced across the full A4/Letter page in the workbook).

Once you have downloaded the guide, you can print or copy the practice sheets as many times as you like for your own use. There is even a full page of guidelines with no letters for more advanced practice.

It is the small things you do to help your child while they are young that will make a big difference as they get older.

This is a download document in Adobe PDF format, which you can print on your own printer as often as you need.