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Claudia Russell – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study was conducted by utilizing an experimental handwriting intervention using eight critical features as identified by Reutzel et al. (2019). The intervention used lower-case letters to group letters with similar features for instruction for preschool-age children. These features were used to facilitate instruction with letter-writing…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Handwriting, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills
Laura Sparaci; Valentina Fantasia; Chiara Bonsignori; Cecilia Provenzale; Domenico Formica; Fabrizio Taffoni – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
A growing number of primary school students experience difficulties with grapho-motor skills involved in handwriting, which impact both form and content of their texts. Therefore, it is important to assess and monitor handwriting skills in primary school via standardized tests and detect specific grapho-motor parameters (GMPs) which impact…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Writing Instruction, Writing Tests, Standardized Tests
Tan, Shirley – Teacher Educator, 2023
Bansho (Japanese board writing) is becoming an area of interest among researchers and educators as it could serve as an asset to make a searching inquiry into teaching. This study aims to identify the variations of bansho styles in Japanese schools and draws its data from 10 lessons from a primary school in Japan. All lesson observations were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Visual Aids, Handwriting
Guanming Liu; Jeferd Saong – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2025
This study explored the professional development issues, challenges, and opportunities faced by calligraphy teachers in the context of disciplinary integration. Descriptive survey was used in the study to explore the professional development of Calligraphy teachers' discipline integration. Through questionnaire surveys and comprehensive analysis,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Handwriting, Writing Instruction, Writing Teachers
Gustaf B. Skar; Steve Graham; Alan Huebner; Anne Holten Kvistad; Marita Byberg Johansen; Arne Johannes Aasen – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
The current study examined the effectiveness of a "writing is caught" approach with young developing writers in Norway. This method is based on the premise that writing competence is acquired naturally through real use in meaningful contexts. Our longitudinal randomized control trial study tested this proposition by examining if…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Intervention, Grade 1, Grade 2
Emma Sumner; Ruth Nightingale; Karen Gurney; Mellissa Prunty; Anna L. Barnett – Literacy, 2024
Students must be able to produce legible and fluent text when completing classwork and for exam purposes. Some students, however, present with handwriting difficulties in secondary school. When these are significant, intervention may be necessary or alternatives to handwriting may be offered (e.g. use of a word processor). Little is known about…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Writing Instruction, Office Occupations, Word Processing
Kenny Lam; Paul Chase; Destiny Riley; Rachel L. Schechter – Online Submission, 2024
LXD Research conducted a study to examine the relationship between investment in Zaner-Bloser Handwriting program and Grade 3 student proficiency in handwriting in Alabama. Data from 4,759 students across 54 schools were analyzed, with schools categorized into Low Zaner-Bloser Handwriting (>$1 and [less than or equal to]$5 per student per…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Writing Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Elementary School Students
Marsallay L. Spicer – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In the era of technology and digital standardized testing, one might question the practicality of teaching cursive handwriting to early learners. The problem addressed in this study is that due to the increased use of technology in the Montessori classroom, teachers may not value cursive handwriting instruction as an important skill for early…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Writing Instruction, Montessori Schools, Teacher Attitudes
Vecchini, Aurora; Buratta, Livia; Fogassi, Leonardo – Cogent Education, 2023
Imitation is a crucial process for learning and brain development. It is based on the mirror neuron mechanism and underlies our understanding of actions and the gestures of others. Some researchers hypothesized a possible correlation between a low functioning mirror neuron system (MNS) and developmental coordination disorder, including dysgraphic…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Difficulty Level, Nonverbal Communication, Imitation
Anabela Malpique; Deborah Pino-Pasternak; Debora Valcan; Mustafa Asil – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Two hundred ninety-eight primary teachers (88% female) from across all Australian states and territories reported on the frequency with which they implemented instructional adaptations for struggling writers in their classrooms. They also rated their preparation and self-efficacy for teaching writing. The majority of participating teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Writing (Composition), Writing Difficulties
Cynthia Puranik; Hongli Li; Ying Guo – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the direct and indirect relations between short-term memory (STM), reading, oral language, and writing at the letter, word, and discourse levels in young, developing writers both cross-sectionally and longitudinally. Method: Participants were 449 English-speaking kindergarten students (52% female)…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Oral Language, Vocabulary, Alphabets
Gabas, Clariebelle; Wood, Carla; Cabell, Sonia Q. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
Writing is essential for communication in literate societies, and its successful acquisition and development is central to academic achievement. Beginning in early childhood, preschool-age children gradually develop componential skills within the domains of handwriting, spelling, and composing that ultimately enable them to translate thoughts and…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teacher Student Relationship, Emergent Literacy, Preschool Children
Spilling, Eivor Finset; Rønneberg, Vibeke; Rogne, Wenke Mork; Roeser, Jens; Torrance, Mark – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
To date, there is no clear evidence to support choosing handwriting over keyboarding or vice versa as the modality children should use when they first learn to write. 102 Norwegian first-grade children from classrooms that used both electronic touchscreen keyboard on a digital tablet and pencil-and-paper for writing instruction wrote narratives in…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Keyboarding (Data Entry), Beginning Writing, Story Telling
Mathwin, Kathryn P.; Chapparo, Christine; Hinnit, Joanne – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
Orthographic knowledge of alphabet-letters is thought to mediate accurate motor execution of letter-writing. This study examined the effectiveness of a handwriting program for early non-proficient writers which integrated instruction of factual, procedural, and spatial information to develop orthographic knowledge of alphabet-letters, for the…
Descriptors: Children, Elementary School Students, Handwriting, Writing Difficulties
Ray, Karen; Dally, Kerry; Lane, Alison E. – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2022
Write Start is a co-taught, whole of class approach to handwriting instruction developed for students in grade one and delivered collaboratively by teachers and occupational therapists. Write Start emphasizes the development of handwriting fluency utilizing evidence-based cognitive and perceptual motor strategies within a station-based teaching…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Writing Skills, Intervention, Kindergarten