HANDWRITING TIPS AND TOOLS
Below you will find the verbal cues that teachers use in the classroom to teach how to write a letter. Using these same verbal cues when practicing at home reinforces what they hear in the classroom, which promotes success!
(Link to Handwriting Practice Sheets at the bottom of this page)
(Link to Handwriting Practice Sheets at the bottom of this page)
You will notice that the verbal pathways are the same or similar for some letters. This is because they are essentially made the same. When teaching letters, best practice would be to teach them using visual representations and dialogue about how letters are the same and different so that students are better to visually discriminate between letters. Example: h and n are made by going ‘down, up, and a hump’, but h is a tall letter and n is a short letter. Additionally, students should be taught the sound in conjunction with handwriting...i.e. Nothing should be taught in isolation.