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Handwriting 101
Helping Your Child Learn to Write
By Teri Brown
Erika Karres, author of Make Your Kids Smarter: 50 Top Teacher Tips (Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2002), believes that practice makes perfect when it comes to handwriting. "Have your child practice twice a day," says Karres. "Make a game out of it by doing simple mazes and word searches together. Do lots of tic-tac-toe type paper and pencil games – make it all fun!"
If your child is still having difficulty with their handwriting and practice has become a time of contention, then perhaps it is time to look at the problem more closely. "The handwriting skill is affected by whatever else is going on in the child's life, so of course, if learning to handwrite is overly hard for the child, medical and other reasons need to be ruled out," says Karres.
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