Teach Your Child Cursive Writing The biggest mistake that parents make while teaching children how to write is forcing them to hold the pen in the right hand. If your child is naturally left-handed, then so be it. Allow your child to develop a natural grip instead of coaxing him into on...
School Fonts, an iPhone app, can teach kids to write plain and cursive fonts. After launching it, users could see four main sections –Numbers, Lower case, Upper caseandWords. All these four sections guide children to write three types of letters –solid outlines, outlines with directional ar...
If you do not have a particular preference, choose whatever will be more easily supported by your time, interest, resources, and abilities. If you have just a little bit more time, I refer you to my Fancy Flowchart™ (aka:Mandarin Mama’s Guide to Deciding Whether Your Child Should Lear...
Begin by purchasing or printing “three-lined” paper with examples of cursive writing. These are easy to find at any school supplies store. There is also an excellent Web site that you can use to print out numerous pages and workbooks for your students (see Resources below). 2Teach the l...
But how important is it, really, for that handwriting to be cursive? Is a child producing better work just because their letters join together? I decided to run a Twitter poll to gain just a snapshot of what other educators think. It ran for only 48 hours and gained a modest 133 vot...
If your child struggles to recognize a word, cover that word again in the main lesson, going through all five teaching techniques. If he has trouble with more than two of the review words, then set aside the new words you were planning to introduce and devote that day’s lesson to ...
Children in Finland would not be taught cursive handwriting. Instead of learning this skill, schools would be given the choice to teach keyboard typing in its place. The change shows typing skills are now more related than handwriting, but experts say the move could do harm to a child’s br...
When a child has a line, they yell out “BINGO!”When a child claims to be the winner, ask her to read out her four or five words that made a line (more reading practice), and check these words on her card and on your word list to make sure she actually heard and marked the ...
Create your own custom worksheets for your child you can save the worksheets for use at anytime. The Teach Me to Write Font lets you create uppercase lower case and also numbers. The font creates dotted letters with a starting point for each stroke of the letter and a direction arrow indi...
Demonstrate the correct technique the students will use to write the cursive letter by writing a sample letter on the board. Talk through the motions needed to form the letter correctly. Stand in front of the students. Turn your back to the class and instruct them to write the letter in th...