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Klein, Howard A. – 1979
An exploratory study was designed to determine the amount and accuracy of symbol output that may occur in a fixed time when elementary school children are asked to copy from a page they have neither seen before nor will be given a chance to study. For two minutes, a total of 194 fourth, sixth, and eighth grade students copied an unfamiliar prose…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Females, Grade 4, Grade 6
PDF pending restorationGREIS, NAGUIB; HANNA, SAMI A. – 1966
WRITTEN FOR THE LINGUISTICALLY-ORIENTED STUDENT, THIS NINE-UNIT TEXT PRESENTS A CAREFULLY STRUCTURED INTRODUCTION TO THE ARABIC LANGUAGE. THE CONTENT MOVES FROM SOUNDS TO LETTERS, FROM SPOKEN PATTERNS TO WRITTEN FORMS, AND FROM FAMILIAR TO FORMAL STYLE. PREFACING THE LESSON UNITS ARE INTRODUCTORY NOTES ON THE ARABIC LANGUAGE AND THE STRUCTURAL AND…
Descriptors: Arabic, Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Background, Dialects
Stasio, James T. – Pointer, 1976
Ten severely and profoundly mentally retarded students were instructed in cursive and manuscript writing. (CL)
Descriptors: Cursive Writing, Exceptional Child Research, Handwriting, Handwriting Instruction
Peer reviewedPaine, M. J. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1974
Descriptors: Chalkboards, Handwriting, Teacher Education, Teaching Methods
Ure, Dorothy – J Exp Child Psychol, 1969
Descriptors: Handwriting Skills, Left Handed Writer, Spelling
Peer reviewedAlston, Jean – British Journal of Special Education, 1985
Research on handwriting performance and instruction for intermediate students with disabilities is summarized, and it is noted that about 21 percent of third-year pupils need help with handwriting. (CL)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Handwriting, Intermediate Grades, Writing Instruction
Lindsey, Jimmy D.; Beck, Frances W. – Pointer, 1984
The article reviews the literature on handwriting and letter formation, noting writing subskills (such as laterality and eye-hand coordination) as well as observable negative behaviors (such as body tension, confusion with directionality, and problems in forming the alphabet). Ways to assess and develop letter formation abilities are described.…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Education, Handwriting, Writing Instruction
Early, George H. – Academic Therapy, 1973
The author advocates the exclusive use of cursive writing in the early elementary grades and maintains that manuscript writing is harmful to learning disabled children. (DB)
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Education, Handwriting, Learning Disabilities
Bell, Mary Elizabeth – Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Handwriting Skills, Rating Scales
Marshall, Jon C.; Powers, Jerry M. – J Educ Meas, 1969
Descriptors: Essays, Grading, Handwriting, Scoring
Thornburg, David D. – Recreational Computing, 1980
Describes a new device which allows personal computers to accept hand-printed input. (CMV)
Descriptors: Computers, Handwriting, Input Output Devices, Microcomputers
Direct linkFestino, Cielo G. – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2006
The purpose of this paper is to offer a reading of "Handwriting", the book of poems by the Canadian-Sri Lankan author, Michael Ondaatje, in which he recovers the recent and ancient cultural history of the island through his reading of different types of scripts and languages. The texts that Ondaatje rewrites in his poems are visual,…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Poetry, Foreign Countries, Figurative Language
Olinghouse, Natalie G. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2008
This study examined the student-level and instruction-level predictors of narrative writing fluency and quality. Participants included 120 third-grade students from 13 classrooms. Student predictors included measures of reading, handwriting, spelling, IQ, grammatical understanding, and gender. Instructional predictors focused on the amount of time…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Basic Writing, Handwriting, Grammar
Lally, Mike – 1981
A research study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of using computer assisted instruction (CAI) to teach handwriting. Designed to take advantage of the computer's facility to rapidly transfer large amounts of precise data, the handwriting program used a computer-connected pen as the interface between learner and machine. Nine boys…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Difficulty Level, Elementary Secondary Education, Feedback
Strickling, Cloria Ann – 1973
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of handwriting and related skills upon the written spelling scores of fifth graders. Comparisons were made between above average and below average readers and between boys and girls in performance on the oral and written spelling tests and tests of handwriting and related skills. The study…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research, Grade 5, Handwriting
