[SENco-forum] Handwriting

Does anyone have any suggestions about how to teach/reteach handwriting as

I would love this to be an actuality, but some teachers seem hell bent on
utilizing as much of the page as possible due to the scare resources.

One math teacher drove me crazy by asking my daughter(with dyscalculia ) to
keep skipping back a couple of pages and filling in 1/4 pages that she had
left at the end of a topic or set of exercises!*&!?!*  Commonsense - a much
underrated commodity.
Sharon

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[mailto:senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk]On Behalf Of Gill Gray
Sent: 24 July 2007 18:11
To: Sharon Fawcitt; 'Becta Senco'
Subject: Re: [SENco-forum] Handwriting

The simplest way to make writing look better is to write on every other
line.
Gill Gray
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sharon Fawcitt" <sfawcitt at dsl.pipex.com>
To: "'Becta Senco'" <senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk>
Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2007 5:04 PM
Subject: RE: [SENco-forum] Handwriting

> Does anyone have any suggestions about how to teach/reteach handwriting as
> part of the English curriculum at secondary school.  Our English teachers
> are often asking for ideas as to how they can help improve pupils'
> handwriting.  I can give them the usual type of handwriting scheme, but
> has
> anyone had any experience of a really successful programme used as part of
> whole class secondary teaching?  Or are there some particularly effective
> techniques they could usefully learn and pass on to pupils - (short of
> suggesting the pupil learns to touch type!)
> Sharon F
>
>
>

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