Comment on Handwritting

I found the handwritting without tears to be intriguing. I am in a Kindergarten classroom for my dyad and am finding handwritting to be a strong focal point for the students. The teacher is extremely particular about what she will accept. Sometimes she even takes the pencil out of the child's hand and erases their work. It has been interesting to watch how the children respond to this type of instruction. Some students hate writing, while others are thriving and do perfect letters. I would be interested to observe a class that is using HWT and how the children are responding to it in comparison to what I have observed in my dyad. Thanks for the links - it has been fun to explore the HWT website!

Handwriting Without Tears

I just saw this on NWCN (channel 2 news) about a program being used at some Seattle schools to improve the handwriting of students. It seems a little less "stringent" than the program that we saw at the other kindergarten class we were in.

Handwriting Without Tears feature

This is the actual site for the curriculum itself:

Handwriting Without Tears