And if she HAD been ready to learn to write as she was learning her letters, then I could have easily integrated the two lessons myself. Should I have held off on teaching her to read? Of course not. But she only just developed the fine motor skills necessary to draw decent lines and curves. The bottom line keeps the child’s writing straight. HWT created writing paper with only 2 lines. HWT believes typical handwriting paper causes line confusion for many students. The writing paper does not have the typical three lines with the middle line being a dotted line.

She was sounding out words by the time she turned 3.5 and is reading at an early first grade level now at 4.5 years. Their unique writing paper is unlike any other handwriting program. My daughter could recognize all of the alphabet and knew her letter sounds at 2.5 years. Now, why should learning to form the letters be separate from learning the letter sounds? Same reason – kids gain the necessary fine motor skills at vastly different rates that are not related to their developmental abiltiy to learn to read.

Forcing kids with average or even lagging fine motor skills to try to master lowercase letters first is almost cruel. The uppercase letters are simply easier to write and mastering them gives kids a confidence boost, encourging them to continue learning to write. That’s where these lively practice pages come in In as little as five minutes a day, you can spur students to spruce up their cursive writing. Kids develop fine motor skills at vastly different rates. What a shame Clear cursive writing is one of the best tools available to kids for efficient note taking and self-expression. Truly, “it’s easier” is the only reason needed to teach uppercase first. But he has taken to the hwt cursive lessons in the orange book like a pro. We have also loved the handwriting without tears program. Create your own worksheets using the unique. Many handwriting programs, such as handwriting without tears® (hwt) use the. After over a year, I finally realized my stubbornmess on this issue was a stumbing block on HER path to learning to print. Save money by purchasing my handwriting without tears® style cursive letter pack. Then I began teaching my daughter to print her letters. I too thought that kids should learn the lowercase letters first since the vast majority of what they read and write will be lowercase.

Hwt cursive writing book