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check you work(sheets)!
check you work(sheets)!
Does the worksheet provide appropriate space for what you want your students to write? If not, consider re-creating the worksheet or, allowing students to write answers on a seperate appropriatly lined paper.
Does the worksheet provide lines and/or boundaries for students who write too large? If not, consider using a highlighter or wikki stix for your students to write inside.
POOR SIZING = MESSY WRITING!
Teaching sizing can have a huge impact on handwriting! Teach that lowercase letters are either TALL, SMALL, or HANGING.
Teach these hand signals to your students to help them understand sizing. You can ask students to show you the hand signals for letters that they are writing.
CAPITALS TALL SMALL HANGING
b d f h i k l t a c e m n o r s u v w x z g j p q y
Some students need visual support on worksheets for sizing when writing. You can provide worksheets that have appropriate boundaries, lined paper, you can highlight the areas you want them to write in, or even practice with writing letters inside appropriately sized boxes.
If visual supports aren't enough to help with sizing, you can provide a physical support by placing wikki stix around the area you want them to write in to provide a tactile boundary. This can also be used to help children stay inside the lines when coloring.
Students who don't start their letters in the correct place often struggle with reversals, speed, and legibility with writing. This becomes even a greater barrier as academic demands increase. Teach them to start their letters in the correct place!
□ Ongoing and consistent explicit instruction in handwriting techniques is essential for all students; this is especially true for those students that are slow to utilize correct handwriting techniques.
□ Offer repeated practice to help the student attain correct letter/digit formation at an automatic level.
□ Reinforce that letter formation begins at the top:
• Except for d and e.
• Try to eliminate random starting points.
• Review the starting/ending points for each letter.
• Children that can automatically start at the correct place and make the strokes the same way can write quickly and neatly.
□ Students need to have the ability to copy the following strokes before he/ she is ready for forming letters: Vertical line, horizontal line, circle, cross, left and right diagonal lines, square, and a triangle.
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