   |
 |
    |
|
|
|
|
|
Elementary Printing and Cursive Skills
Amazon
Products
|
"Some
lefthanded children make great advances when set to "tracing" correct
letters
and patterns rather than copying from a removed source (book or board)"
from http://www.global2000.net/handwritingrepair/KateHwR.html.
This information was filed away until recently when I was brainstorming
with a friend to think of ways to help her son's penmanship (end of
Grade
2). Her son is "pleasantly plump" with an easy going, laid-back
attitude
towards life. But his weight is now handicapping his ability to print.
The fine motor skills required to form letters using a pencil are
sabotaged
by his restricted ability to bend his wrist and fingers and a
generalized
weakness in both his upper and lower arm. This in turn leads him to
over-size
his letters. On a recent test, this contributed partially to a poor
grade
on a written answer. Due to his exaggerated printing size, he only had
"room" to print one out of four possible answers. (He did not know that
he "was allowed" to print 'outside' of the lines, or the back of the
page,
etc.) Another suggestion we were working with was to increase his
strength
and endurance through graduated lengths of assignment sittings. So the
idea of the following exercises were developed with him in mind.
Progressively
decreasing sized tracing and printing worksheets, optional length of
assignment,
no 'creative component to distract concentration, and hopefully, a
story
he would enjoy reading when all was done. JM Short
Stories used for the first 4 printing worksheets are adapted from: Different
Isn't Always Bad It
Really Can Add Up The
Key Apples
of Gold A
Walk in the Woods Tips
for Legible Penmanship Chalking
Up the Summer |
|
Legal & Privacy Notices |
