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BlessedWith3SNP
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Posted: March 31 2012 at 9:10pm | IP Logged Quote BlessedWith3SNP
I'm about at my wit's end! My two children who are school age 6 and 8 have terrible penmanship. They rush through their copywork just to get it done with. They don't write with their letters touching the lines, they always float above and I don't know whether I should push forward with copywork, or go back to letter formation and expect six perfect letters. I just don't know what to do from this point.

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Posted: March 31 2012 at 10:03pm | IP Logged Quote JennGM
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I'm about at my wit's end! My two children who are school age 6 and 8 have terrible penmanship. They rush through their copywork just to get it done with. They don't write with their letters touching the lines, they always float above and I don't know whether I should push forward with copywork, or go back to letter formation and expect six perfect letters. I just don't know what to do from this point.

I have an 8 year old boy and have been quite exasperated. Two things that have worked for drastic improvement: inspiration from learning calligraphy and then learning cursive. I don't know exactly what clicked but I see such care in making writing beautiful rather than rushed.

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Posted: April 10 2012 at 9:03am | IP Logged Quote pumpkinmom
I will be watching this post as my 2nd grader's handwriting has actually got worse over the past year. And my oldest has struggled with handwriting too. I will be reteaching letter formation after Easter break with my youngest. We will also work on hand exercises. My oldest is just now (age 11) getting nice handwriting. His biggest problem was lacking in fine motorskills and not having the strength in his hands. I got them both Thinking Putty (just like silly putty that I got from Timberdoodle) and they play with it all the time and I hope it is increasing their hand strength. Make sure pencil grip is good. I realized mine was holding his hand completely wrong, but I didn't catch it until I stood behind him to watch him write. Rewarding good writing may work if it is just laziness. When I catch laziness I just say that Dad will be looking at your copywork for the rest of the week. It usually gets back to normal soon.
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Posted: April 10 2012 at 5:42pm | IP Logged Quote Elena
They're boys and they are still pretty young at ages 6 and 8. Barring any visual problems, it's probably just some fine motor development that isn't quite mature enough yet. I'd probably push forward with copy work and go back and review proper letter formation from time to time - but I'd incorporate a lot of drawing and illustration of whatever it is they are copying to help those small hand muscles to develop.

Maybe they are future physicians!

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Posted: April 10 2012 at 8:46pm | IP Logged Quote Claire F
My 7 year old has terrible handwriting too and he rushes through his copywork a lot of the time. I know he's capable of better than what he does.

One thing that seems to be helping a little is to sit and do copywork alongside him, modeling how I want him to do it. This keeps him from rushing. We'll do just one sentence - short and sweet. But I set the pace, showing him how to do each letter, talking a little about what I'm doing. As he works alongside me, he slows down to my pace and his copywork looks worlds better. I'm hoping that after we do it this way for a while, he'll start to do it slowly and carefully on his own, without me having to sit and do it with him.

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