Mora Academy · Letters
Trace with Ina
Suggested age: Ages 3 to 6
Watch how each letter is written and trace it with your finger. Ina is here to help!
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For parents and caregivers
How Trace with Ina helps your child develop
Tracing letters with a finger prepares the hand and the memory for writing: children learn each letter’s shape and the movement that draws it. Here is how it is played, what it builds and how to keep going at home.
How to play
First a yellow pencil draws the letter, stroke by stroke, in the order it is written. Then your child traces it with a finger: start at the green dot and follow the grey path in the direction of the arrows, and what they trace turns purple. Going off the path never erases their work: they go back to the purple dot and keep going. Easy has the capital vowels; medium, other capitals with curves and diagonals; hard, lowercase letters. Each game has five letters.
What they are learning
Following a path with a finger builds fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination, the basis for holding a pencil. Learning where each letter starts and which way it goes avoids habits that are hard to fix later and makes handwriting smoother. Watching and repeating the movement also helps children remember the letter’s shape and recognize it when reading.
Ideas to keep going at home
- Say the letter’s sound out loud while tracing it.
- Write the letter big on a sheet and let your child go over it with colored crayons.
- Make letters with play dough, sticks or pebbles.
A tip from Mora: play together for a short while, 5 to 10 minutes, and talk when you finish. Screens work best as a starting point for family conversations rather than as a solo activity: real learning happens in the conversation, which is the heart of the Mora method.