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Plan ahead for handwriting assessment

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Writing Time Student Practice Books include written assessment tasks that are completed throughout the year. However, to fully assess a student’s handwriting ability, you also need to observe their handwriting technique.
Why letter groups make sense in handwriting

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A large part of early learning involves familiarising students with our alphabet and teaching them how to communicate effectively through written language. During this developmental period, handwriting instruction needs to teach students correct letter formation in a way that’s easy…
Pressure problems in handwriting

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On one side of the classroom, you may have a student with dark, smudged writing and punctured paper. On the other side, you may have a student with writing so faint it’s almost impossible to read. The former happens when…
Three common issues with students’ handwriting

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As a teacher, you’ve no doubt seen some interesting handwriting from students—writing that snakes down the page, sentences written as one long word, or perhaps letters with so much slant they look like they’re about to fall over. Here are…
Teacher tips for supporting handwriting practice at home

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Even though COVID-19 restrictions are easing around the country, extra handwriting practice still makes for a great home-learning task.
Have you used the See & Trace tool?

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The See & Trace tool, available at Writing Time Online, demonstrates correct letter formation, exits and entries, and joins.
Ready, set, go! Speed-based activities for handwriting

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Handwriting fluency is a tricky skill for some students to master, involving a delicate balance of speed, accuracy and automaticity.
Letter reversals in handwriting

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If you’ve ever taught in early primary, chances are you’ve seen letter reversals in a student’s handwriting. While the idea of writing reversed letters may seem unnatural to someone with years of handwriting experience (like yourself), almost all children around…
The knock-on effect of handwriting practice

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Have you ever seen a student stumble with their handwriting as they try to create a mind map or write the next sentence in their narrative? When this happens, their thought process is stopped in its tracks.