handwriting - Network Educational Australia

New Release 2014!
Children who have an effective handwriting program when they begin to learn to write letters and words:
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Write significantly more text as they grow older,
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Write text that is of significantly higher quality,
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Make significantly fewer spelling errors (even though they are writing more text).
Lack of proficiency in handwriting is frequently the underlying problem for children who are identified as having learning
difficulties in written language or dysgraphia.
The key to developing proficiency when teaching handwriting is to focus on:
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Free-flowing, smooth, efficient strokes,
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Recall of letter shapes from memory,
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Introducing letters quickly (one per day).
HANDWRITING
An evidence-based approach to an integrated literacy program
2014
It is essential that teachers read the background information in Handwriting LINK: Beginner's Workbook Teacher's Guide
before introducing handwriting to students.
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There is a developmental sequence that teachers must understand if they are to teach handwriting effectively.
Before children begin to learn to write letters:
i. Children must be able to hear the sounds in spoken language. This is referred to as phonological awareness. Specifically,
children must be able to rhyme and identify initial sounds.
ii. Children need to learn how the sounds they hear in words correspond to the written letters,
When children know a number of letter sounds, they are ready to begin learning to write letters. Because of the need to develop
phonological awareness and knowledge of letter-sound relationships, most children in Prep should not be introduced to
handwriting until second or third terms. The first part of the book
covers Pre-writing skills which are introduced in the First Term of
Prep!
Teacher Guides Available
The order in which letter-sounds are introduced is different from
the order in which written letters are introduced. To begin
teaching handwriting;
i. Teachers should demonstrate writing the letter shapes.
ii. Students should practise making each letter using large fluid
movements - writing in the air, writing on desks, writing on a
white board, finger painting, tracing sandpaper letters with
finger.
iii. Students should practise writing letters using bubble letters.
iv. Students should write letters on a single line.
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nternationally acclaimed researcher and academic Dr Carol Christensen has completed a series of workbooks
to teach children the basics of handwriting. Handwriting LINK is an evidence-based approach to teaching
handwriting to young children. Research shows that there is a remarkably strong relationship between
proficiency in handwriting and the ability to produce high quality written text. Data indicate that a quick one
minute test of handwriting, can account for more of the difference in children in terms of the quality of text that
they can produce than all other factors combined. From Year 1 to Year 10, proficiency in handwriting accounts for
between 50 and 65% of differences in children's ability to write creative, well-structured text. Research also
shows that many traditional approaches to handwriting are ineffective and have a significant negative impact on
children's achievement.
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Beginner's Workbook
Year 1 Workbook
Bubble Letters
Pre-writing
“Wrote on average 100% more text.”
“Had 50% higher scores on measures of quality of text.”
“Made 25% the number of spelling errors.”
Letters on a Single Line
Multiple Letters on a Single Line
Writing Letters
Letters on a Double Line