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Developing good handwriting as a vital communication tool.

Teacher's Corner

Prelude: Learning of drawing skills at an
impressionable age can accelerate the
development of fine motor skills and
control of the small muscles of the hands.
Such encouraging activities will allow
children to make the precise movements
necessary for forming letters and improve
hand-eye coordination, leading to good handwriting.

Good handwriting is a vital communication skill and developing that skill at an early age need no longer be viewed as a chore by teachers, parents and wards alike. It can be fun to begin and end with as being proved in practical terms through a set of 7 ‘Learner’s Choice’ series of titles. These exercise books, starting with pattern drawing at level A and ending with creative writing exercises for the average student at level V when the foundation learning is considered to be truly and effectively completed, have become the popular choice for prescribed use in all leading schools, including a number of well-known International schools in southern India.

Why view handwriting as a critical communication skill, you might ask? Look at any standard doctor’s prescription and you begin to wonder at the elasticity and tolerance levels of ‘legibility’ in handwriting! But ask any experienced primary school teacher and she will quickly endorse the common perception that many a time students lose out on marks not because they do not know the subject matter, but because they are unable to write legibly, making it bothersome for the evaluator to decipher as to what they have written.

The ‘o’ will often look like ‘a’, ‘u’ like ‘c’, ‘i’ like ‘e’ and vice versa. Instead, handwriting should look good, be legible and should facilitate quick writing. Handwriting is a skill and it needs to be developed from the very early age. Every letter has a related pattern and linking the letter of the alphabet is an art by itself.

The series of ‘Cursive Writing Made Easy’ titles from ‘Learner’s Choice’ provide an opportunity to the current generation of children, no matter what their age group may be, to learn or rectify their style of writing, to develop the art and skill of cursive writing, leading to legible writing and to rightfully secure the marks they deserve.

This handwriting set, from level A to V, is priced at Rs.50/- per title. For further details and preview, visit, www.joi2learn.com or write to: joi2learn@gmail.com.