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Teaching Handwriting

 



Teaching Handwriting


  • Remember your hand writing is unique to you
  • It is part of your personality Make it your own preliminaries
  • There 44 sounds in English and 26 letters.
  • Handwriting scheme - Letter Join.
  • All letters start on the line.
  • All letters have an in-stroke and an out-stroke.

 

 

Why teach handwriting???

  1. Students need a legible, fluent style of handwriting to fully participate in writing.
  2. Handwriting fluency predicts how much and how well children write
  3. Attention to motor skills strains students' processing capacity that could be used for higher order skills (keeping up with own thoughts, planning, content generation, revisions...
  4. Overtime children may minimize other writing processes, avoid writing or believe they cannot write
  5.  Handwriting accounts for how writing is evaluated.
  6. Note taking and adult use are still necessary

 

 

Goals

1- Automatically no need to use working memory to "draw" the letters.

2- Speed and rhythmic higher order skills Fluency of writing, fluency of thoughts

3- Legibility communication letter formation -letter spacing - letter alignment - letter size - letter slant - word spacing.

 

 

Aims of Teaching Handwriting

In primary schools, the aim of teaching handwriting is to teach - each child how to write legibly, fluently, without strain, and with sufficient speed.

 


Sequence of Instruction

The main stages in teaching children handwriting at primary schools are:

  • teaching grip, letter shape and movements
  • teaching ligatures
  • increasing speed and endurance without loss of quality.

 

 

General Considerations in Teaching Handwriting

1. Individuality in Children's Writing as a consequence of children's differing abilities and development, it is inevitable that there will be variations in the letters they form. So teachers need to recognize and accept that in handwriting.

2. Practice Physical skills can be fixed and refined through regular, brief periods of practice. Children should be individually supervised and given immediate feedback when practicing handwriting.

3.  The Teacher's style It is essential that teachers learn the basic scripts and the cursive style so that the samples of writing children see on whiteboards will provide them with good models.

4- Posture Good posture should be positively emphasized when the children are writing.

5- Paper Positioning Children should be encouraged to keep their papers well up on the desk to enable much of the forearm to rest on the table. Such a position helps them to control the fine motor movements in writing.

6- Holding a pencil Children should hold the pencil between the thumb and forefinger with the middle finger supporting the pencil from below. This makes a "three-point" grip.



Reference: 

Summery of Mr. Mohammed Ahmed Abdulammer. 


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