DLTK's Educational Activities
Dynamic Tracer Pages

Instructions:

When you click the link below, you'll be taken to a "frames page".  He can only do it with frames so those of you with browsers that don't support frames will have to wait until he's gone further in his course before you'll be able to share in this new Ideas.

There are 4 rows to practice with.   Each of the 4 rows must say the same thing:  

For example, you can have a page that says:

wednesday
wednesday
wednesday
wednesday

But not a page that says:

sunday
monday
tuesday
wednesday

The top frame has ARROWS.  Each one corresponds to one of the columns of letters.

Push the UP arrow to go forward through the alphabet (a,b,c,d,e,... )

Push the DOWN arrow to go backward through the alphabet (z,y,x,w,... )

There is a BLANK (it comes after Z/before A) so if you want 2 short words, you can have them.  You can only get the BLANK with the UP arrow.  For some reason the DOWN arrow makes the blank come back as a broken image (we're working on figuring this out too!)

Under the arrows in a grey box are the titles of some images.  These images will be placed at the bottom of the tracer page for the child to color in.  You can chose one of the four available images or leave it blank and let your child practice more spelling or draw their own picture.

To Print:

When you've created a tracer page you're happy with, click once on the tracer page

Click FILE, PAGE SETUP (or FILE, PRINTER SETUP) depending on which browser you use.

• Set your page margins (top, bottom, left, right) to ZERO or to the lowest default your printer allows.
• DELETE everything in the HEADER and FOOTER boxes (or click off the checkmark beside them) depending on which browser you use.
• Click OK

Click FILE, PRINT FRAME  (or FILE, PRINT and make sure the Print Frames box towards the bottom has the option "ONLY THE SELECTED FRAME" chosen) again this depend on which browser you are using.

the templates:

The program will open up in a separate window (that way you can jump back to this window to re-read instructions if you need to without losing your template).