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Reading · Pre-K Reading

Chapter 1: Writing the Alphabet

More Slanted Letters

K M N Y Z — a straight line with a lean beside it.

Lesson
4
Time
About 8 minutes
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Part 1 of 4Let's Learn

Step 1: Let's Learn

Read it, or press Listen and follow the words.

These letters use a straight line and a leaning line together.

Straight one first

Draw the straight line, then add the lean.

Step 2: Your Turn

Practice makes it stick.

Trace These Letters

More lines than before. Take them one at a time.

Follow the numbered dots in order.

K

Step 3: Quick Check

Show what you know.

Question 1 of 6

How many lines does Z have?

Question 2 of 6

Which letter is a straight line with two leaning lines beside it?

Question 3 of 6

Which letter has two straight sides and a V in the middle?

Question 4 of 6

Which letter is made of three lines, one of them leaning?

Question 5 of 6

Which letter is two lines across and one leaning between them?

Question 6 of 6

Which letter is a V with a straight line under it?

What You Learned

  • Straight line first, then the lean.
  • Follow the dots in order.
For the grown-up

M and N are the two most often drawn as a scribble. Four strokes for M and three for N keep the turns visible, which is what makes them reproducible without a model.

K is genuinely hard because the two short strokes meet the stem at a point in the middle of nothing. If it goes wrong, it is not worth a second attempt in the same sitting.

Z is the only letter here with no vertical at all, and it is included because the two horizontals give the hand a rest after M.