Introduction: "Handwriting Without Tears"[R] program (Olsen, 1998) has been suggested as an appropriate set of procedures to teach students with and without disabilities skills in written communication. Unfortunately, there has been little research in the peer reviewed literature where the program has been employed to teach children with…

Our purpose was to see if THRASS (Teaching Handwriting, Reading and Spelling Skills) is a programme that should be taught to Foundation Phase (FP) and Intermediate/Senior Phases (ISP) pre-service teachers at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT). The term "literacy" is defined as an evolving, developing and complex concept,…

The evidence of a growing body of comparative data would seem to support the introduction of a manuscript as the writing style in the primary grades and its maintenance throughout children's educational careers... (Author)

Discusses a number of issues involved in handwriting and handwriting instruction. Notes that the successful selection of appropriate tools, techniques, and letter designs for modern handwriting education requires a collaboration of experienced classroom teachers, educational researchers, and traditional artisans. (GT)

An overview of research topics and findings from an interdisciplinary, programmatic line of research on writing over the past 25 years is presented. The cross-sectional assessment studies (grades 1 to 9) showed which measures uniquely explained variance in handwriting, spelling, and composing and thus validated their use in assessment. These and…

Nowadays, it is a vigorously-developing project to improve teaching arts in English class. As a result, this article focuses on how to improve English teaching efficiency, how to improve English teaching quality, how to encourage students to participate in studying activities actively as well as how to deal with teaching links at class.

This study examined the writing performance of 58 students with a history of specific language impairment, assessing them at ages 8, 11, 12, 14, and 16 to evaluate longitudinal trajectories of writing performance and relationships with oral language, reading, and handwriting fluency. At age 16, participants continued to experience problems with…

This paper presents a concise model of literacy assessment based on the "simple view of reading" and the "simple view of writing". The approach targets directly the key skills and knowledge involved in reading, writing and spelling. It stands in contrast to the less precise and potentially more subjective "always-in-context" and "always-authentic"…

Gender differences in mean level of reading and writing skills were examined in 122 children (80 boys and 42 girls) and 200 adults (115 fathers and 85 mothers) who showed behavioral markers of dyslexia in a family genetics study. Gender differences were found in writing and replicated prior results for typically developing children: Boys and men…

Students at the University of Edinburgh do almost all their work on computers, but at the end of the semester they are examined by handwritten essays. Intuitively it would be appealing to allow students the choice of handwriting or typing, but this raises a concern that perhaps this might not be "fair"--that the choice a student makes,…

Examines recent research in neuropsychology showing that hand position while writing is indicative of brain organization. Concludes that to force children to hold pencils or pens in the same straight position may be deleterious to those whose natural position is not straight. Offers suggestions for handwriting instruction. (FL)

Discusses the need for a new way of writing based on the use of the ball-point pen; describes aspects of experimental handwriting models that have been developed by the author. (GT)

The 1971-1972 developmental tryout of level one of the Southwest Regional Laboratory (SWRL) Composition Skills Program is described in this report, and results obtained in a wide range of school locations are detailed. Level one is designed to promote beginning manuscript printing skills and is normally administered in kindergarten. A variety of…