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Handwriting Improvement Tips

The document outlines eight essential rules for improving handwriting in children, focusing on posture, writing tools, and practice. Key tips include maintaining good posture, using appropriate writing instruments, and ensuring proper pencil grip and letter formation. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of consistent practice and attention to spacing and line adherence for neat handwriting.

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Handwriting Improvement Tips

The document outlines eight essential rules for improving handwriting in children, focusing on posture, writing tools, and practice. Key tips include maintaining good posture, using appropriate writing instruments, and ensuring proper pencil grip and letter formation. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of consistent practice and attention to spacing and line adherence for neat handwriting.

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8 rules for great handwriting

Handwriting Tips Video

Check out a few of our handwriting rules to help your pupils in 1st class and above
perfect their handwriting in cursive and print.

1. Good posture is important for cursive writing. Encourage children to sit with
their feet flat on the floor, their back straight (no heads on the table) and
relaxed shoulders.

2. Find the best writing tool. Try practising cursive handwriting with felt tips and
gel pens, which have a nice, fluid delivery of ink.

3. Keep up the momentum. There's often a big focus on handwriting in 1st and
2nd class, then we move on and give it little attention. It's important to keep up
practice to ensure that your pupils continue to develop and maintain
handwriting skills. Keep doing short handwriting exercises as your child moves
through 3rd and 4th class to help them develop speed and fluency.

4. Slow down. Often when children are rushing through their work, this is where
things get messy. Encourage your pupils to write slowly and deliberately to
ensure every letter is formed accurately.

5. Practise capital letters. It's important to remember that every letter in the
alphabet is taught twice, and every pupil should be able to form both the lower
and upper case versions of every letter (not to mention, upper case letters are
often written slightly larger on the page).

6. Master pencil grip. You should make sure you're teaching pupils a 3 finger
pencil grip. Again, this helps children put equal weight on all 3 fingers and
helps develop their fine-motor skills.
7. Learn line adherence: Line adherence is the student's ability to write along the
line on the page. This is important to practice neat and uniform handwriting.
This includes proper placement of certain letters on the bottom or baseline (for
example: a, c, e, i, m, n, o, r, s, u, v, w, x, z). Ensuring that 'Tall' letters (for
example: b, d, f, h, l, t) touch the top of the line, and that 'go under' letters (for
example: g, j, p, q, y) go under the bottom line.

8. Perfect spacing: handwriting spacing refers to printing letters in close proximity


without excessive gaps, letters touching, or letters overlapping. There should
also be appropriate space between words in a sentence.

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