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A nice visual game to reinforce how to form letters. Exercises include follow with your finger, press and follow & free draw. You can change the size of the letters, lower case, upper case, numbers and the writing speed.
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Suggestions for use: Use the animation on full screen to introduce and reinforce letter formation. Get the class to follow the letter formation on the board. Then get one pupil to press and follow while class still follow with finger. Then, pupils can practice free drawing with the animation independently. Monitor and check.
A tool for letter formation. Watch the sky writer form a letter and follow it your finger. Excellent for demonstration on IWB.
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Tips and tricks to help pupils learn how to write with nice memory rhymes so that all pupils are using the same handwriting style when beginning to write.
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Song with verbal cues and actions to help pupils learning to write. The video has simple catchy instructions to grap a pencil correctly.
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Suggestions for use: Video is a teacher reference but teacher can use technique with class.
Train your Hand is a Handwriting app that allows children to practice the early stages of writing. Children can follow the dotted lines to create each letter and for each one they do correctly they get a reward.
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Suggestions for use: This can be used with a child that struggles with their handwriting or as a supplement for a pencil and copybook.
This generator produces pre-writing and early writing support sheets. Learners must over-write and copy a number of shapes and line patterns.
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A simple conversation began on twitter whereby a truly caring and compassionate teacher sought for techniques and strategies to help a pupils handwriting ability. Lehinch National School recommended this great find which goes back to basics. Basics are not basics for all children and some need more help at grasping the basics before slipping through the system. With dedicated practice and perseverance, the response to intervention (RtI) techniques which include letter size differentiation, raised line paper, using stickers to ensure spacing between words, direct instruction on case sensitivity, using multi sensory by writing in sand/shaving foam/paint, handwriting without tears app, handwriting practice worksheets and letter rehearsals.
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Suggestions for use: As the twitter conversation progressed, a need was highlighted. Practice of handwriting cannot be left up to the English teacher alone. In this case, the English teacher allowed the pupil to sit their exams using an iPad so that assessment was accurately depicting the pupils ability. Secondly, the teacher emailed all the corresponding teachers who work with the pupil to gather ideas and strategies collectively. The form teacher had an essential role as the form teacher checks in with the student daily on a 10 minute basis. Ultimately, for handwriting to improve, everyone in the pupils educational environment needs to sing off the same hymn sheet and become advocates for the pupil to become persistent with the challenge they are facing.
Directly instruct students to be aware of using case sensitives.
Practice writing letters using guided worksheets. Try using different size lined paper or coloured paper. Practice writing letters in a multi-sensory environment to relieve the monotonous factor.
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Choose from a large variety of handwriting worksheets or generate your own. This website provides easy to print lower case and upper case letter worksheets to aid in the development of letter formation.
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Suggestions for use: These worksheets can be printed for individual work as part of a whole class activity. They may also be used as a reinforcement activity for children who are struggling to develop correct letter formation.
Online resource to help teach children correct letter formation. It contains individual videos modelling formation of each letter in upper and lowercase as well as guidelines on the 3p's and 4s's of good handwriting. The resource can be used by teachers in the classroom and can then be accessed by children and parents at home for reinforcement.
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Suggestions for use: In class demonstration of letter formation, support for children at home
Within the search facility in WorldBook Online you can search any topic and refine the results based on the child's reading ability using the Lexile Measure Search Facility. When an article is open click on the contents book on the top right of the screen and this will display the Lexile measure. This is a useful tool especially when the class are undergoing project work.
SESS - Special Education Support Service.
The SESS website has resources related to teaching of pupils with special educational needs.
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