This has been long awaited for as I discovered, through experience, some great tips for teaching joined handwriting many years ago - and have been wanting to share these ideas on a larger scale than individual school-by-school.
My sincere thanks to Carol Cockeram (see posting below for full information) for her painstaking work in designing e-resources for both my preferred 'print' handwriting style (for beginners and infants) and my 'teaching' joined handwriting style! For me this is like a dream-come-true.
Carol's skill has enabled me to create and provide e-resources to support teachers, tutors and parents to teach learners/pupils/children/students learn or improve their handwriting.
I appreciate that I promote specific handwriting styles and teaching approach - and that this may well not be to everyone's taste or handwriting policy. Nevertheless, aspects of what I write - for example, about correct pencil-hold, good sitting posture, writing 'under' words and not 'above - are generic to all handwriting activities.
My concern has grown over the years having visited many schools and even viewed many video-clips where learners are more-often-than-not sitting with very poor posture, holding the writing implements with very ungainly - even bizarre- grips, and writing, in effect, from 'above' the words and not 'below'.
To make matters worse, here in England schools are increasingly removing desks from early years and infant classes - and children are being taught to write sitting, or even lying, on the floor with mini-whiteboards or with clip-boards. Whilst there is some room for quick-fire phonics/writing activities and play-activities with these conditions, this is not fit-for-purpose for teaching the best handwriting for life-long writing skills.
I have made sure that there is good free information and ample free resources available via my handwriting website for those people who think the handwriting styles and teaching approach suit their scenario.
www.debbiehepplewhitehandwriting.com
Please do let me know if you have success with my suggestions or if you have any questions or comments!
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