Handwriting Observation

This study validated the use of co-teaching handwriting with the teacher and therapist embedded in the classroom to provide handwriting intervention. The students in the Write Start program with the therapist embedded in the classroom demonstrated improvement in legibility, handwriting and speed. The increased legibility of written work through development of writing could possibly provide success when demands for writing increase; increasing academic participation and

Teaching children handwriting has been an accepted and integral part of early childhood education. But the Common Core Standards that many schools have now adopted no longer require that handwriting be taught past kindergarten and first grade. Should such methods be abandoned? Is writing even helpful? Don’t we have computers to do the writing for us, so do we really need handwriting? Is writing effective? Maria Konnikova addresses these questions in her article What’s Lost as Handwriting Fades published in The New York Times on June 2, 2014. She cites the concerns of neuroscientists and psychologists that handwriting has long term benefits in both children and adults. Writing stimulates neurons in the brain to increase learning, memory, and

help as well as dedicating time to handwriting sessions where pupils can use handwriting paper and

However, stated writing is important to him but struggle to indicate why he felt it is important. Jack mostly writes a school but also reports he writes a home when completing homework. Overall, Jack feels “so-so” about his writing ability because sometimes he does “not like to write.” He further stated everything about his writing is good, except for his penmanship; this is something he indicated he would like to improve. Overall, impression of his handwriting sample was concerning. The sample provided did not have proper spacing between words and formation of letters was unclear. He did well with capitalization and use of periods…

putting pen to paper stimulates the brain like nothing else, in this age of e-mails, text and tweets. Learning to write in cursive is shown to improve brain development in the thinking area. language and thinking. Cursive handwriting stimulates brain synapses and between the left and right hemisphere. The college board found the student who wrote in cursive for an essay portion of the SAT, slightly scored higher than the ones who printed.

Using tools to write like a pen. Your brain in working and learning all at the same time. At anyones age you can e-mail, text , and also tweet. That all learning the fact of writing. The brain development is a good way of saying that you're learning from what your writing. Also your handwriting says a lot it synaps and synchronicity from left to right. People that wrote the SAT scored very high.

In a world of evolution, it is often found difficult to accept a new trade or skill that partially substitutes a skill so commonly used and accepted today. As generations pass, people discover new things that revival the beliefs of the past and handwriting is not exempt from this course of evolution. People have hit that critical point of rivalry between handwriting and its challenger typing. Handwriting is a skill known by people for centuries and even prior to handwriting people painted or carved to record information. In today’s world, typing keeps becoming more of a key player and triumphs over hand writing in many aspects. It is imperative to understand the importance of typing, as much of what college students and employees do

When you write, putting a pen to the paper it stimulates the brain more than any other activity. You even work your brain sending e-mails, texts, and tweets. Studies show that when writing in cursive it improves brain development. Cursive helps stimulate your mind in the way of thinking, language, and working memory. When typing you have then absence to all of those critical parts of working your mind. The College Board even found that people/kids who wrote in cursive they got higher tests scores, than those who didn’t.

To help children to construct correct handwriting, there would seem to be a case for the use of ruled writing spaces and assist them to follow the proper procedure of writing a specific character and obtain precise strokes. There would also a field references or guidelines for line and cursive character in the every letter of alphabet. Error messages, if used, need to be in a simple English language that the children can easily understand. A different level of practicing is considered to be sure that children will be able to take hold of the writing technique through gif images that shows how characters should be constructed properly.

Handwriting is the essential skill for both children and adults. Even if you are the manager,engineer,doctor or something else you have the skill of handwriting. Handwriting helps the children or adults to use your brain for education. Handwriting is the most important thing in education. Children with poor handwriting will also have difficulty with other academic areas. Handwriting is production of creative and well written text. Handwriting helps to develop our brain for thinking, language and working memory. The college board found that who written in cursive for the essay portion has scored higher than who has printed.

The stimulation of putting pen to paper is a hard experience to beat. Even with all of the electronic ways to share ideas that we have today. It is known that writing in cursive is shown to increase brain development. This is especially true in the areas of thinking, and working memory.

The five writings I plan on using are two timed writings, claim of policy, nature vs nurture, and character sketch. I chose to use these essays because they show my progression in writing through the year. They start from my lowest essay to my best eassy.

I would consider myself as developing with practicing child development theories. However, now that I have spent a couple of weeks with students, making the connection to the literature is easier. After reading the student’s paragraph during an assessment, I observed that most students in the class did not know how to write in cursive script. My mentor and I are in the beginning stages of planning a lesson that I could teach on typography; using type as art to include their signatures on the back of their artwork.

Just some of the accommodations that a student can be offered is to write with soft tipped pens that allow for less pressure, offered larger lined paper to help with visual difficulties, and classroom notes available either given in chunks or with guided notes, where the key words are missing to allow the student to be active in the lesson but to alleviate some of the writing and to prevent fatigue. (Howard, 182)

The first stage of art development is the Scribble: this stage consists of three stages which are the uncontrolled scribble, the controlled scribble, and the named scribble (Beaty, 2014). For example, Caydence Thomas (2016) who is two years and eleven months old girl, and she draws the uncontrolled scribbled picture. The first stage of the scribble is just a mark and uncontrolled mark because the child have "little control of eye and hand movement" (Beaty, 2014, p. 258). Caydence uses different colors and scribbling over her scribbles. Caydence marks "endless lines done in a rhythmic, manipulative manner" (Beaty, 2014, p. 257). However, Caydence marks one oval shape. Therefore, Caydence is starting to have the coordination of eyes and hand. “Once children’s scribble have become horizontal lines instead of circular or aimless meandering so, they are indicating they understand writing is something different from drawing” (Beaty, 2014, p. 231). Since, there is no evidence of the linear scribble on Caydence’s picture, she has not developed the understanding of difference between drawing and writing.