Letters Made of Slanted Lines

Step 1: Let's Learn

Read it, or press Listen and follow the words.

Some lines lean over instead of standing straight up.

They meet at a point

Two leaning lines touch at the top or at the bottom.

Step 2: Your Turn

Practice makes it stick.

Trace the Slanted Letters

Watch where the two lines meet.

Each line has its own dot. Follow them in order.

A

Step 3: Quick Check

Show what you know.

Question 1 of 6

Which letter is a V upside down with a line across?

Question 2 of 6

Which letter is two lines that lean together at the top?

Question 3 of 6

Which letter looks like two V shapes side by side?

Question 4 of 6

Which letter is two slanted lines that cross?

Question 5 of 6

Does a slanted line go straight down?

Question 6 of 6

Which letter has a line across the middle?

What You Learned

Slanted lines lean over.
Two of them meet at a point.

For the grown-up

A, V, W and X are all made of the same leaning stroke repeated, so they share a movement in the way the straight letters do.

W is four strokes here rather than one zigzag. A zigzag hides where the turns are, and a child copying it as a single scribble will not be able to reproduce the shape without the model in front of them.

If A is difficult, do V first and then turn the page. Seeing that they are the same two lines is worth more than another attempt at A.