Teaching penmanship using large motor skills part 2
November 20th, 2007
You may want to read the Part 1 of this write-up before you continue with part 2.
The boy is 6 years old, his small muscle is quite well developed and has good pencil control. So, we dived straight into training him to write using the big muscle. (If you are training younger children who have not developed good pencil grip and control, you may want to start some Practical Life Exercises for small muscle control and pencil grip.)
We have the 26 letters divided into 4 groups, according how the letters are formed. (We did cursive, but you can do the same for prints)
The clock letters :
The loop letters:
The uphill letters :
The hump letters:
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did u do ur cursive sandpaper on your own or u bought it? What is the height of the letter (in cm) like? So curious, I want to do my own, then I realised I made it too small (about 2in for the letter a)!
Leah: I made mine from sandpaper and very thick poster board. I made them in 3 different sizes, 5″x 4” for horizontal letters, 4″x5″ for vertical letters and 6″x 4″ for wider letters i.e. m and w.