All About Handwriting

[clioclio]

Can i ask parents out there for advice—

My girl is going K1 next yr (4yr+ now). Her handwriting is not good compared to her peers, her tr has told us she needs to practice more at home. That’s fine with me so my hubby and I do try to get her to write words/numbers.

I am concerned because she writes letters like ‘S’ or numbers like ‘7’, ‘3’ in the opposite direction (ie Mirror image). even after we correct her (write the correct way then ask her to trace and write on her own) she still writes mirror images.
HEr other letters/numbers are fine but they are quite atrocious–very BIG, then small and not in a line. I am concerned because :

1. Is she possibly dyslexic? How can i find out if she is/isn’t?
2. her peers can write on a straight line, but i find that she writes crookedly, her letters sometimes need deciphering. Am i expecting too much for her age or do i need to be worried.

at first i thought all 4 yr olds write like tt, until i got a shock when i see her classmates handwriting are so much more legible.

Do u know if K1 students start writing in sentences? Coz my girl cannot sustain writing so many letters like 'Happy Birthday".===too many letters for her to write.

Any advice please? Help!

[jedamum]

clioclio:

Can i ask parents out there for advice---

My girl is going K1 next yr (4yr+ now). Her handwriting is not good compared to her peers, her tr has told us she needs to practice more at home. That's fine with me so my hubby and I do try to get her to write words/numbers.

I am concerned because she writes letters like 'S' or numbers like '7', '3' in the opposite direction (ie Mirror image). even after we correct her (write the correct way then ask her to trace and write on her own) she still writes mirror images.
HEr other letters/numbers are fine but they are quite atrocious--very BIG, then small and not in a line. I am concerned because :

1. Is she possibly dyslexic? How can i find out if she is/isn't?
2. her peers can write on a straight line, but i find that she writes crookedly, her letters sometimes need deciphering. Am i expecting too much for her age or do i need to be worried.

at first i thought all 4 yr olds write like tt, until i got a shock when i see her classmates handwriting are so much more legible.

Do u know if K1 students start writing in sentences? Coz my girl cannot sustain writing so many letters like 'Happy Birthday\".===too many letters for her to write.

Any advice please? Help!

not sure about dyslexic, but i noted that your girl's birthday is in Nov.
my 2006 boy is a Nov baby too. his improvement in handwriting came sometime mid K1. when the class first introduced them to weekly handwriting homework, i drew lines and dots so that he could string the letters together nicely.
we used a 'handwriting chart guidelines' (that looks something like this http://www.first-school.ws/t/alphabet/holidays/back-to-school-zb.htm and stick it on the board right in front of his writing desk) and we guide him accordingly and he can see it visually how to write the strokes properly (i drew dots to start with). the chart divides the 'three lines' into 'headline, belt line and toe line'. so we guide him to write the letters to always sit on the toeline and when which strokes of which letter should hit the headline and eg 'f' to have the horizontal strokes at the 'beltline' etc etc.
later on, it is practice makes perfect.
his K1 sch work rarely has sentence writing, but this i believe differs from preschool to preschool.

[maggicho]

hm…perhaps u may like to explain to her nicely why is it neccessary to be neat?

[schivelle]

Hi Parents,


My child is turning 3 year old and i would like to know how do you train your kids in holding their pens / pencils? I heard of this skill call penmanship, and how do we get our kids to learn that?

Thanks!

[mommypoon21]

how can I help my child in his writing? he is not consistent in using his hands. sometimes he use his left hand. then the right.

[seekingangels]

Does being left or right handed play a part in horrible handwriting as well?

[iLoveChubby]

Hi!

I dont thk left or right handed played any major part on the neatness of one's handwriting...
My DS1 is left-handed since young, did not delibrately change him as he always feels comfortable writing using his left hand and his handwriting is pretty neat.

On e other hand, my DS2 has v terrible handwriting(right-handed), compared to his peers at school... How terrible?...I once saw him having a piece of drawing in school, I thought he was scribbling all over and drawing jungle/forest/trees.... later then i realised it was a Chinese lesson whereby they are learning how to write Chinese strokes! :yikes:
It was then i realise how terrible his handwriting was (as compared to his peers, most of them could write the strokes).

So i enrolled him into Kumon - one of the reasons is that he can practise his writing everyday (daily worksheets). Altho' he is doing Kumon Maths, I do realised his handwriting improved even when he is writing English/Chinese words. Of course Kumon also helped him in his Maths and his concentration skills (sit down and complete his work everyday). :rahrah:

[Seow Ting Ting]

my child has good handwriting. I guess he got it from me

[struggling]

My daughter is special child and had been going for therapy sessions with the Occuational therapist . Here is something she did to teach my kid, which may be useful for you all as well...


Draw three lines on the paper.
The top line in blue - to represent the sky
The middle line in green - to represent the ground
Bottom line in brown - to represent the earth

Then ask her to slowly copy words, and following whether must touch the sky ( capitals) , or normal ( between green and brown only).

There are also stages of development of a child's hands/ fingers.

You can cross check on this article :

http://www.healthxchange.com.sg/healthyliving/childrenhealth/Pages/Teaching-Children-to-Write-the-Right-Way.aspx

[Ichigokun]

I used to write extremely ugly when I was in lower Primary.


In Primary Three, my Chinese teacher couldn’t stand my handwriting and asked me to stay back and redo the entire assessment worksheet.

XD Could not go home until my words are legible.

From then on my handwriting improved, well, quite a bit XD

Children sometimes need punishment to improve in certain things.