Approach Strokes
The approach stroke for the letters i, j, p, r, t, u, and w.
What is "swing up, stop?"
Where the pencil rests on the first joint of the middle finger with the thumb and index fingers holding the pencil in place.
What is a tripod grip?
Teaching this helps children learn to read.
What is teaching manuscript?
Used in about 2% of writing.
What are Upper Case Letters?
A syllable where the vowel is read short.
What is a closed syllable?
The letters a, c, d, o, g, q have this approach stroke.
What is "curve under, over, stop"?
This significantly interferes with coordinating the hand movements in writing.
What is poor posture?
Writing this from memory benefits students in grade 4 and above.
What is periodically writing the alphabet?
Pretending to write by mimicking letters and numbers formation.
What is the imitation stage?
A grapheme that includes two adjacent vowels that make one sound.
What is a digraph?
The letters b, f, h, k, and l have this approach stroke.
What is the approach stroke, "curve way up, loop left"?
The WOW acronym stands for this.
What is "Watch Our Writing"?
Research has shown that in the first grade, handwriting lessons are this long.
What is 15 minutes?
Students who find writing too difficult may never reach this stage.
What is stage 6, the personalization-diversification stage?
This letter is always silent at the end of a word.
What is the letter, "E"?
The letters m, n, v, x, y and z have this approach stroke.
What is the approach stroke, "push up and over"?
This is an unusual difficulty with handwriting.
What is dysgraphia?
This leads to better spelling in 4th through 7th grade.
What is the benefit of learning cursive in 3rd and 4th grade?
This allows the child to complete a word, phrase, or sentence with only a few keystrokes.
What is word prediction software?
This is how the sound of an open, accented vowel is read.
What is long?
Each approach stroke always begins here.
What is the baseline?
To reduce time spent erasing, a teacher can do this.
What is instruct children to bracket mistakes?
This allows developing writers to use their limited working memory resources to generate ideas, spelling, and create sentences
What is automaticity?
This leads to improved word reading better than keyboarding
What is handwriting letters stroke by stroke?
This is in final position and the syllable is always read the same way.
What is a final stable syllable?