 You can prepare a child to learn how to write by tracing letters and numbers. You can write down a number or letter and tell the child what it is. For example, this is the number three and then you can show them how to trace it and ask them to try. You can ask them what number is this and they can say three. And you can ask them to trace the number a few times making sure to say the name of the number as they do it. So they can go in and say three, three, three. And you can do this with any letter or number. Tracing is the first step to learn to write letters and numbers.