In this collection of articles, the results of recent research in handwriting and spelling are reported and evaluated in the perspective of studies done over the past 50 years. The articles included are "Handwriting and Spelling: Their Current Status in the Language Arts Curriculum,""Handwriting Research" ("Movement and Quality" and "Style and…

Penmanship is not simple for most young children, nor for many older students; yet, the skill is virtually ignored in teacher education. A model for training teachers to teach handwriting is suggested, incorporating: (1) diagnosis of students' needs; (2) motivational techniques; (3) classroom strategies; and (4) balancing creativity and mechanics.…

Hemispheric asymmetry was examined for native English speakers identifying consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) non-words presented in standard printed form, in standard handwritten cursive form or in handwritten cursive with the letters separated by small gaps. For all three conditions, fewer errors occurred when stimuli were presented to the right…

THE THEORY OF VISIBLE DISPLAYS IMPLIES A CONNECTION BETWEEN THE DEVELOPMENT OF PERCEPTION IN THE CHILD AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIS CAPACITY TO MAKE THINGS THAT STIMULATE PERCEPTION. TO VERIFY THIS, TWO STUDIES ON THE FUNDAMENTAL GRAPHIC ACT AMONG YOUNG CHILDREN CONSIDERED MOTIVATING FACTORS LIKE THE PLEASURE OF MOVING, KINESTHESIS, ACTIVITY DRIVE,…

Two objectives of this book are to provide a rationale for using basic language forms (sounds, letters, and words) in the perceptual-skill training of low-achieving children and to present techniques for teaching reading, spelling, and handwriting to low-achieving children. The first chapter, on the reading/spelling inversion, explains the…

This textbook presents lessons in reading and English pronunciation. The alphabetical letters or signs employed in the English language being very complicated figures, it is necessary that children, for a considerable space of time, should be practised in drawing simple geometrical figures before they are taught writing. By this geometrical…

This study investigated the possible influence of good and poor cursive handwritten presentations upon elementary grade teachers' evaluations that stories by children are creative. A modified two-factor repeated measurements design was used to investigate the independent variables, creativity and handwriting quality, and the dependent variable,…

Briefly discusses one teacher's approach to teaching handwriting to elementary school students. A sample lesson is included. (JMB)

The legibility components (letter formation, spacing, alignment, and size) and speed of handwriting were assessed for 575 children in grades three to seven. In general, interrater and test-retest reliabilities were higher for older children. Girls wrote significantly faster and smaller and made fewer errors in letter formation than boys. (SK)

Two pieces of free writing by children six to nine years old were rated for creativity and legibility. Creativity was found to be unaffected by the type of paper (lined or unlined) used. However, young children's legibility was greater with unlined paper, while the opposite was true of the older children. (Author/GC)

Urges teachers to consider the problems of left-handed writers. (DD)

Discusses how graphotherapy (analyzing penmanship strokes) could provide a definite, behavioral criteria of each student on a personalized basis. (MM)

Based on a paper presented at the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea on October 9, 1970, in Prague, Czechoslovakia. (RS)

Suggested is a sequence of 11 class activities, progressing from gross to fine motor skills, to assist the development of skills required to perform handwriting tasks successfully, for use particularly with children who lack fine motor control and eye-hand coordination. (KW)