Скачать или смотреть Episode 11: The Importance of handwriting with Debbie Draper

In this episode, we chat with educational consultant Debbie Draper about handwriting, why it's back and what we need to do to set kids up for successful writing.

Handwriting has made its way back into schools that have embraced evidence-based teaching of reading, spelling and writing.

The multisensory nature of the delivery of structured synthetic phonics programs requires that students are handwriting as they store grapheme-phoneme correspondences, and there's a plethora of evidence to support this approach.

Now, as schools insist that students write more, the expected questions have popped up.

Cursive or manuscript?
One then the other or cursive from the get-go?
Which font shall we teach schoolwide?
Are there better ones than others?
Dotted thirds, lines or no lines?
What types of writing implements - pens or pencils?
Do we correct poor grip? How?
Do we let them rub out?
Writing in books or on individual whiteboards? If both, when?
How should students sit as they write? At tables, sitting on the floor?
Lying on the floor?
Do we insist on a set letter formation?
What about students with Dysgraphia?

In this episode, we explore these issues and more with Debbie and tap into her vast expertise and experience.