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A hand in drawing is a hand good for writing!

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How often have you struggled to make yourkid practice handwriting ? Have you ever looked at the drawings and scribbling he often goes on the wall or elsewhere? Don’t you think you could potentially utilize his drawing skills in handwriting practice? Yes, you read it right! Drawing has proved to be a great tool in helping children learn how to make a child write neatly . A pre-writing exercise Pre writing exercises go a long way in helping children practice how to gain a good and balanced pencil grip and hold. By making children learn to draw the lines, curves and slanting lines they can be taught to hold a pencil or crayon properly. Moreover, the use of color to draw makes them gain interest and by transferring this interest to writing letters it is even possible to draw attention of the reluctant writers to write. Understanding the shapes and sizes of letters Children in due course of learning have to learn the various alphabets (all 26 of the!), th

Learning difficulties and their impact on child’s handwriting

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There are various factors which come into play during the process of learning of a child. As we all know that learning is a continuous and complex process that involves the development or reading, writing, listening and cognitive skills of a child. But sometimes children face problems and find it difficult to learn and develop by going through the process of learning. In the development of the ability to write also, children find such problems arising out of various factors that seem to overpower their skills deterring development.  Handwriting for kids then becomes really very difficult for kids to practice and they often start dreading it. Various difficulties Dysgraphia : It is a problem in which children fail to write legible handwriting, have inappropriate and  inconsistent spacing, incorrect spellings and difficulty in composing to write by thinking at the same time while writing. In handwriting practice, this makes the child develop handwriting which is very bad to lo

Handwriting practice should go along with activity based learning

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How often have you been troubled by the fact that whenever you make your toddler sit and write he runs away? Well, you are not the only one who faces it because it is inherent in the young children to be restless and impatient. They cannot sit in one place for long and like to do new things. They are full of energy and creativity therefore, harness this energy and creativity to an activity based learning approach to make him learn how to improve handwriting   in the real sense. Writing exercises should be more than just writing Yes! You just got that right! It is understood ‘by default’ to kids that when you call him and say ‘come on lets learn to write the small letters today’ it’s of no appeal to him! But when you say ‘Let us play a new game today!’ sounds more fun to him. Therefore make an intelligent approach of combining new activities, games, art and craft together with handwriting for kids. Create unique handwriting worksheets   keeping in mind the learning need of

Improve handwriting of kids by creating interesting worksheets

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It is very difficult for your kid to improve handwriting if he never knows how to write it correctly? He will have terrible handwriting issues later if you do not pay heed to his pain of learning to write. Therefore, give him the best handwriting tool available and design his best suited practice sheet with Startwrite India. These customized unique worksheets have a range of exciting features that guide your kid to learn writing in the correct way. The use of guiding, lines, grids, arrows and decision dots give him a dimension to follow while learning to write and improve handwriting . Visual images attract kids more than written texts. Startwrite uses the best techniques in helping your child’s learning by giving him worksheets with colorful images too so that handwriting practice no longer becomes a nightmare of black alphabets r unning down a sheet of paper!