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Number 8 Tracing Worksheet – Mary Martha Mama
I recently worked my way through my letter tracing worksheets and now I’m working my way through the numbers. Today I’m sharing my free Number 8 Tracing Worksheet. Hopefully this will be helpful for those of you who have kiddos who are learning how to write their numbers.
The Number 8 Tracing worksheet features 3 lines. On the first line you trace with the help of numbers and arrows. For the second line those numbers and arrows go away. On the final line you practice writing the letter all on your own.
I like having all three of the types of practice in one sheet.
Each sheet also features the number word spelled out as well as a picture representing the number at the top. My son likes to color these in before he traces and writes the numbers.
In order to get multiple practices out of one sheet you can pop the page into a page protector, dry erase pouch or laminate it. Then you can use dry erase markers and wipe after each practice.
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You can get the free printable Number 8 Tracing Worksheet here.
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You can also grab my free letter tracing worksheets for more practice.
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In addition to the free set I have come up with some more letter tracing worksheets. I just think that there are so many ways that you can try to work on handwriting so I wanted to provide a variety of them. These are all available for purchase as individual sets or together as a part of a big bundle at my Teacher’s Pay Teachers Store.
Tracing without Arrows & Tracing with Arrows
I have one set that features 26 pages where you trace over the dashed lines without arrows. There is a similar 26 page set where you trace over the dashed lines but there are arrows to help guide you. I find the arrows to be a big help for my son at this stage of the game for us.
set with no arrows
set with arrows
Letter Tracing with a Starting Dot
Another set that I made features tracing over dashed lines with a green dot on each letter to tell you where to begin and a guide at the top right hand corner of each page to remind you how to draw the letter.
There are 52 pages in this set, 26 for the upper case forms of the letters and 26 for the lower case forms of the letters.
Rainbow Letter Tracing
The Rainbow Letter Tracing might be my favorite set. For this set you trace over the dashed letters with arrows. For each line you do the color of the line so that in the end you make a rainbow. There are 52 pages in this set, 26 for the upper case versions of the letters and 26 for the lower case versions of the letters.
A to Z on 1 Page
These A to Z pages are sheets that feature all the letters on one page- one with arrows and one without.
The Big Bundle
If you like all of these then you can get them together in the Big Handwriting Bundle. Bundling them all together costs less than buying them all separately.
More Free Printables
If you’re looking for more free printables then check out my Printables Page.
How to write about your experiences and memories to make it easier?
As early as 30 years ago, it was discovered that if you write about your experiences in a certain way, then health improves, not only mentally, psychologically, but also bodily.
How to do it right?
Psychologist, PhD in Psychology, Narrative Practitioner
Daria Kutuzova
30 years ago, University of Texas professor James Pennebaker discovered that if you write about your experiences in a certain way, your health improves, not only mentally, psychologically, but also physically . Since he began his research, more than 300 papers on this topic have been written and published. This huge amount is quite enough to test the effectiveness of any psychological practice.
Pennebaker's most famous, key experiment, which became the basis of his subsequent work, was as follows. He recruited a group of young people, mostly students. Each participant in the experiment entered an empty room, where there was a table and a sheet of paper, a pen and a task. A person wrote for 15 minutes, then, on a call, he stopped writing, folded the sheet, and either left it in a special box in the corner of the audience, or could take it with him.
Subjects wrote for 15 minutes for 4 days in a row.
The participants of the experiment were divided into 2 groups - control and experimental, the tasks for written work were different. The control group wrote about something completely mundane, such as what these people did yesterday or what they ate for breakfast. While the second experimental group wrote according to the instructions, which included the task to write about something extremely exciting, significant, and about something that these people never told anyone about.
At the end of the experiment, with the permission of the subjects, the researchers obtained data from the university polyclinic about their visits to doctors and prescribed medications before and after the study. This turned out to be a very interesting result deserving further investigation.
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It turned out that about half of the subjects from the experimental group began to visit a doctor half as often and use drugs half as much as before.
In the control group, these indicators remained practically unchanged.
Writing for 15 minutes in patients with asthma reduces the frequency and intensity of attacks, reduces the intensity of pain in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, reduces the number of awakenings during a night's sleep in patients with cancer.
How does writing practice improve health for many people? Moreover, not only in generally healthy 2nd year students on whom this psychological experiment was conducted - in other studies there were samples of people with serious chronic diseases. For example, it was found that writing for 15 minutes about something significant in asthma patients reduces the frequency and intensity of attacks, reduces the intensity of pain in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, and reduces the number of awakenings during a night's sleep in cancer patients. In a recent study, it was found that in older people, surgical wounds heal faster if writing is used as an additional therapeutic intervention.
These are simply amazing results, and after their publication, many began to study and effectively use this technique in practice. Moreover, it costs practically nothing, does not give side effects, unlike drugs, and, in principle, it is not so difficult to learn how to conduct therapeutic writing sessions for those who cannot access traditional psychotherapy. Currently, written practices are used very intensively and effectively in labor exchanges and hospitals, in places of detention and in schools.
What is the first thing to keep in mind in order for a letter to be useful? After all, a letter is a fairly powerful tool, and if you do not know about safety precautions, you can seriously harm yourself. What must be taken into account when a person writes about his life, so that it is really good for his health?
First of all, it should be noted that Pennebaker's writing is always like two approaches to a projectile: first it is expressive writing, and then reflexive.
Expressive writing means that a person plunges into the flow of feelings and expresses them, simply pouring onto paper without self-censorship, trying to grab his experience in all its complexity and let it go as it is. There is absolutely no need to make a beautiful text, it is not even necessary to write correctly, punctuation marks are not needed. This is the experience of the moment, actual, most exciting now or in memories.
After that, a short break is made, as if a step back, a retreat. And, after reading his written text, a person takes a different position. He is not in the flow of experiences, he came out of it, stepped aside - and looks, comprehends, reflects. He is already writing about what, as he now understands, was important to him in the process of writing, what feelings came to him and what awareness, how he feels now, rereading it; what turned out to be new for him, perhaps surprised, or, on the contrary, confirmed what he knew about himself, and where it leads him further.
Maybe this leads him to some kind of reflection or action - talking, communicating, deeds, or to inaction - refraining from deeds.
The first rule to follow in order for a letter to be useful is no self-censorship .
It is necessary to write it in such a way as not to be afraid that someone will read what is written, and that it will then be used in one way or another against the author. Therefore, in order to avoid self-censorship, you need to be very careful about your right to privacy and respect it. If it is possible that someone else might be able to read these notes, it is important to choose a safe place to store them in order to avoid this danger.
In addition to external readers, external interlocutors, letter recipients, people also have internal interlocutors. And when a person writes about his experiences, it is important to understand to whom he is addressing, how this person or creature listens to us.
Many have a very strong inner critical voice, and when such people write about their lives, he breaks out to the surface, one might say, pulls out a pen, and begins to write for them - how bad they are, and how unworthy they are, and why once again step on the same rake.
But a person also has another position inside, which is more or less familiar and mastered to many. This is the position of a benevolent researcher, a sympathetic witness who understands everything, and, perhaps, knows a person better than he knows himself. For some it is God, for others it is someone else. This interlocutor may not have a name, but when a person writes about his life and what is significant to him, it is best to tune in to address this interlocutor, this listener, who will accept the person as he is, in shame, in self-dislike, in disgust, in fear, in doubt, this inner interlocutor will still say: “So it is! Let's see what's next?"
Another very important point - if a person is going to write about something very significant for himself, it does not have to be scary or sad things at all - it can be something joyful or just very exciting.
It must be borne in mind that one should not dive too deeply into experiences so that at any moment there is an opportunity to emerge back, to return to everyday existence. To do this, it is good to keep a scale of subjective distress on hand to measure the intensity of the experience. You can draw it on paper or just keep it in your head. Any disturbing situation is evaluated on this scale using a 10-point system, where 0 is the absence of excitement, when everything is fine and calm, and 10 is the highest degree of excitement - when a person is internally worried, and everything is so terrible at this moment of writing that he wants to crumple this sheet, throw it away, cry and run away.
You can't bring yourself to such a state, and you should stop writing, when the intensity of feelings goes off scale, approaches 8 . Do not force yourself to be in a state where it is scary and uncomfortable.
Usually paper or a screen is a wonderful fuse, it is difficult to write something that at the moment a person is not ready to realize and accept. But many people are accustomed to forcing themselves to endure, believing that suffering cleanses, and that it must necessarily get worse before it gets better. These people force themselves to plunge into unpleasant experiences too deeply, and may stop feeling not only pain, but also joy. In this case, the letter is not useful, but harmful.
Structuring the letter can also help make the letter more useful and safe. Many are familiar with freewriting, or Julia Cameron's Morning Pages method. In the original, the exercise is that in the morning, first thing after waking up, everything that comes to mind is written down on 3 A4 sheets, pouring out a stream of thoughts and feelings onto paper. This is described as a sewer for the brain, a kind of cleaning of consciousness. This is very useful for many, but for some people it can be downright dangerous.
For example, people who are depressed or people with post-traumatic stress disorder feel really bad first thing in the morning. And, if at this moment you start writing about yourself, about what is on the surface and what is swarming in your head, then you can strengthen the negative idea of yourself as a weak, sick, worthless, worthless person. Almost always, this approach does not lead to an improvement in the situation.
The more vulnerable a person feels, the more structure they need in a letter.
Kathleen Adams, director of the Institute for Writing Therapy, has done research on the importance of structured writing as opposed to free-flowing writing. In the course of this work, it was found that the more tension, stress, grief, fear and other negative components a person has in life, the more structured his writing should be. Kathleen developed a special scale, the so-called structured ladder. This scale lists the main types of diary exercises, depending on the degree of their structure.
At the very top of the scale is freewriting, freewriting. This means that in order to get the maximum benefit from freewriting, you need to immerse yourself in it when everything in a person’s life is quite good and calm. When not everything is good, it is better to set a timer, that is, write not 3 pages for an arbitrary time, but, say, 5-6 minutes. During this time, it is very difficult to hurt yourself really seriously, but it is quite enough to take out some material from the boundaries of your consciousness and the unconscious, with which you can continue to work.
The most structured exercises are focusing on a single word, for example choosing the word of the day, and writing down unfinished sentences. You can write lists, draw mind maps or clusters (mental or associative maps). This, too, may not take more than 5 minutes a day, but it brings great benefits. A cluster is especially useful if it seems to a person that his head is running in different directions from thoughts, and he does not know what to grab onto.
In this case, you can set a timer for 5 minutes, and throw in all the ideas swarming in your head, literally one or two words each, just to get some coherent picture.
Approximately in the middle of the Kathleen Adams scale are the so-called lists of 100, for example, “100 things that I dream of doing” or “100 feelings that I experience every day”, meaning traps are sketches about what a person in this day pleased, or what question interests him most of all now. About the same level are portraits. These can be portraits of significant people, or a portrait of who a person would like to become, or who he cannot become in the current relationship, in the current situation.
Pretty much anything you can imagine can become an interlocutor in a written dialogue.
More difficult, requiring complete immersion in the process of writing, are such exercises as writing dialogues. It can be not only a dialogue with some person, but also, for example, a dialogue between different inner voices, a dialogue with pain, a dialogue with money.
Virtually anything you can imagine can become an interlocutor in a written dialogue. Dream work and poetry therapy are roughly on the same level. Perhaps the most structured exercise in poetry therapy is called the Acrostic.
What is an acrostic? An acrostic is a poem, it can be in rhyme or not, of any size, rhythm, but each line of it begins with the letter that makes up this word. To begin the writing exercise, it is good to take a few deep breaths, close your eyes, and try to find in yourself that line between what is known for sure and what is not known at all. This line is always colored by a feeling of excitement, it can be something quivering, something igniting, something that makes you take a deep breath.
Exercise "Acrostic"
Take any word that is emotionally charged for a person at a given moment in time, which excites and worries. This will be the basis of the poem. The word is written in a column, and then a word or expression corresponding to the emotional state of the author is added to each letter.
It is better to start with a not very long word, for example, the word "again":
C now I understand or
H ET, which is each time, and
about b the same,
in , perhaps,
97777 how else to inform those who care to know?
Then you can turn this poem over in your head, ask yourself questions about it, maybe talk to someone. Performing this exercise allows you to decompose your experience into components, which makes it possible to analyze it and find out the cause of this condition.
Pennebaker's research has shown that writing is most useful for those who, in the process of self-expression, create a coherent story out of a chaotic experience, out of a tangled tangle of feelings and emotions. A story that has a plot and where the hero changes as he moves towards his goal.
And in this story, not only events are described, but also the experiences of the hero himself. He can be clumsy, make mistakes, be wrong in many ways, but by and large he is a positive character, and the attitude towards him is sympathetic, but without condescension. He is likable in general, and I want everything to work out for him.
People who wrote only about events, without touching their feelings, did not get much benefit from writing. However, as well as people who wrote only about feelings, and not about how certain episodes were prepared and how they influenced other people.
The people who write most of all from writing are those who write in general more about the positive than about the negative, not only about what they lost as a result of what happened, but also about what they learned in the course of these events, overcoming their consequences. . It is likely that during this difficult period for them they even managed to notice something good, and understand that unpleasant, sometimes tragic events do not capture their lives 100%.
When writing stories, it is very important to change the point of view from which the action is described. You can write in the first person - "I went, I did", you can write about yourself in the 3rd person, as if you look at yourself from afar, from the outside, from the outside - "she went, she did, she felt at that moment." This is also a way to step back from the flow of experiences and look at yourself from the outside. Sometimes this is not easy to do, but what is useful is very simple?
It can be very helpful to look at the situation from the opposite side, and write the story from the point of view of another person involved in the events.
It is possible to write a story from the point of view of another person involved in the events. In any story, the hero is not alone, there is always someone with whom he is in some kind of relationship, often this is a conflict or an unclear situation. It is very helpful to look at the situation from the opposite side, and write down what these people may have felt and wanted, what may have hurt them and what inspired them.
And, of course, we should not forget about the addressee of history, to whom we are writing this letter. An inspector, a boss, a judge, a friend who is ready to receive us in any form, as they say, in a greasy old dressing gown? To yourself in the future or in the past, to another person with whom we have a difficult relationship? Every time a person determines to whom he writes, the story itself changes, the style of its presentation, and, most importantly, changes the meaning that a person extracts from it, what he, as the author of this story, learns by creating it.
Pennebaker's 4 Stories Exercise
We need to recall a recent event that is somewhere in the middle of the Kathleen Adams scale - not a superficial level of conversation over a cup of tea, small talk, but not the other extreme - not a tragedy, not a drama from which immediately tears come to the eyes. Perhaps this is some moment of dissatisfaction with oneself, a situation not fully clarified, or a feeling that there was some potential in the event that was not fully revealed because the person was in a hurry and did not have time to realize it.
And this story needs to be written 4 times for 5 minutes in the following ways:
1. As objectively as possible, tell this story to a fellow traveler on the train - a complete stranger, met for the first and, most likely, the last time.
2. Describe this situation from within, completely frankly, as a friend or girlfriend, ready to accept in any condition, without looking back at anything, expressing all feelings and emotions.
3. The most difficult task is to describe an event from the point of view of another person involved in it, look at the situation from your opponent's point of view, get into his shoes. This story can be addressed both to someone else who understands and accepts this person, and to the author of the stories himself.
4. The final story should be addressed to some higher intelligence, a universal source of compassion, whose goal is harmony.
In conclusion, you need to write a reflective response - what it was like writing these stories, which turned out to be surprising, which caused the strongest feelings.
Top 10 Sites to Practice English Writing Skills - Englishdom Blog
April 17, 2013
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When we learn a foreign language, we need to master four main activities: reading, listening, speaking and writing. And since we strive to answer “Yes” to the question “Do you speak English?” as soon as possible, sometimes the ability to write in English fades into the background. But now, in the era of the rapid development of the Internet, you can write not only essays or business letters. You can chat on forums or correspond with native speakers on special sites. In addition, written speech helps to learn sentence structure, consolidate grammar and expand vocabulary. Let's see what Internet resources can help us with this.
1. Starting with the simplest
esolcourses.com
Here you can find a lot of simple and useful exercises: describing appearance, filling in the gaps in the text, placing words in the correct order, etc. Many tasks are based on popular songs, so doing them is a pleasure.
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2. Better to see and hear once,
engvid.com
Free video tutorials from native speakers will help you understand the different intricacies of writing: how to start a letter, how to summarize information, where to put a comma, etc. After watching the lesson, you can complete a practical task, as well as ask a question to the teacher in the comments.
3. Write letters!
samples-help.org.uk
If your job involves business correspondence in English, this resource will be useful to you. Practical tips and examples of different types of letters will make this task easier and help you perfect your skills. For those who write letters quite infrequently, this is generally an invaluable help, for example, for a housewife who corresponds with a hotel about a family vacation discount. You just need to find the right type of letter on the site and half the work is done!
4. A forum instead of a class
englishforums.
com
Individual learning has many advantages, but the absence of classmates and classmates must somehow be compensated. In this forum, you can meet fellow English learners from around the world and discuss topics ranging from basic grammar and slang expressions to pets and travel experiences.
Complete the topic in the online simulator:
- Top 100 Pre-Intermediate words
- Upper-intermediate top 100 words
- Top 100 Intermediate words
- Top 100 Phrasal Verbs
- Top 100 Elementary words
5. A little bit of everything, give your opinion!
learnenglishonline.yuku.com
Another great forum for putting your writing skills into practice. Surely you have something to say, or rather, write about your hobbies, the best films of the year, your favorite ice cream, or your workouts at the gym.
In addition, the forum has a large section with various language games: find antonyms, make a sentence from given words, answer a question with a question, solve riddles, etc. This can be a good start for those who are embarrassed to communicate on the forum. After participating in several games and typing a certain number of messages, you will no longer feel like an absolute beginner.
6. Mutual language learning
conversationexchange.com
The world is full of people for whom you are an authority figure. After all, you are a native speaker of the Russian language, which is now being studied by many foreigners. This site offers you the opportunity to find pen pals, and if you wish, also for conversations in Skype, Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk, etc. The purpose of communication is to help each other with learning a foreign language. The advantages of such a service are obvious: you can meet people from different countries, master colloquial expressions, as well as share your knowledge of your native language and feel more confident when communicating with "native speakers".
7. Wake up the writer in you!
daily-writing-prompt.com
According to the creators of this site, the practice of writing is very much like running in the morning: very hard to get started. For those who nevertheless decided to develop the ability to express their thoughts in English, and at the same time develop creative thinking, this site is just a godsend. You can watch videos on different topics and write your opinion, continue the stories you started, use ideas from the calendar, etc. Try a very interesting method of “free writing” - its meaning is to write everything that comes in for a certain time head, without thinking about spelling and topic. Maybe you have already learned to think in English?
8. Make the habit useful
facebook.com
Since you're on Facebook several times a day anyway, why not combine it with learning English? Here are a few links to get you started - feel free to leave comments, practice your writing skills on your favorite social network:
- Grammarly - fun grammar for any level;
- English jokes - funny jokes and funny photos;
- British Council - page of the British Council, a lot of various information;
- English.
Second.Language - new words, interesting links, unusual riddles and much more.
9. Learn from mistakes corrected by a native speaker
lang-8.com
This site offers you a unique opportunity to make entries that will check "native speakers" and leave their comments. In turn, you will also be able to check the posts of participants who are learning Russian. You can chat with different people and also join interest groups.
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10. Tell the world about yourself
livejournal.com
If you have already learned how to express your thoughts freely, try starting a diary in English! Write about your hobbies, friends, everyday joys and sorrows. Surely there will be people who want to know more about you and make friends with you on LiveJournal.
The main secret to developing writing skills is to write about what interests you. Search forums and pen pals based on your hobbies.
