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Big Strokes for Little Folks
Develop letter and number formation by grouping symbols according to similar characteristics Use this developmental training program to prepare children ages 5 through 9 for handwriting. Improve children's spontaneous, legible manuscript letter formation and placement. Guide students to printing each letter of the alphabet and (optionally) numbers 1, 3, 4, and 6-8. Children will find the creative activities in this product fun and challenging. This program is designed for children who already recognize most letters but have had limited success in learning to form them. The manual includes a timeline for normal writing development, and 133 reproducible worksheets for use in practicing skills.
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Loops and Other Groups: A Kinesthetic Writing System
Use movement patterns to teach cursive writing—imaginative approach makes learning fun. Help your 2nd grade through high school students with learning disabilities and perceptual delays learn cursive writing—along with their nondisabled peers in a typical mainstreamed classroom. Letters are taught in groups that share common movement patterns. For example, a, d, g, q, and c can be visualized on a clock face, and are called "Clock Climbers. "Easy-to-remember motor and memory cues help students visualize and verbalize while experiencing the "feel" of the letter. Most students can learn formations of all lower-case letters in just six weeks.
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Minnesota Handwriting Assessment
Now there's a tool for evaluating handwriting that addresses manuscript and D'Nealian print Use the Minnesota Handwriting Assessment with first and second grade students to analyze handwriting skills, including standard manuscript and D'Nealian styles of print. This test has normative information, substantiating its test/retest reliability. Use the test to identify how students are performing in relationship to their peers. It also demonstrates progress as a result of intervention. Scores are based on rate and five quality categories— Legibility, Form, Alignment, Size, Spacing. Test students individually or in groups.
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+ Quick Facts
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Publication Date : 1999
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Ages/Grades : Grades 1 and 2
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Administration : 2 1/2 minutes; with scoring experience, less than 10 minutes.
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Qualification Level : A-Level
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