Author Archives: BFH Handwriting
For You in the Snow Zone
This lesson helps with a child’s hold on writing tools. It requires that you find some tiny beads, such as little crystals to represent snow, and some cotton balls for snowballs. Demonstrate holding a cotton ball in the palm of … Continue reading
Better Handwriting in 2011!
This story on National Public Radio should give all who are working on their handwriting the rationale and incentive to continue, a reason for students to learn a legible and fluent hand and a reason for older persons to keep … Continue reading
Please Look
I just had another look myself! http://66.147.242.192/~operinan/index.html Go to “Handwriting Repair.” This relates to what I wrote about cursive in November, and tells about handwriting in such a clear and imaginative way. Briem is a valued mentor to me.
QUICK TIP For Pen/Pencil Hold
A relaxed hold needs an open palm. For young children ask them to write with a cotton ball held in the palm with the ring and little fingers. The writing finger drives the pencil; the thumb and third finger stabilize … Continue reading
A TURKEY FOR THE USA THANKSGIVING
Pencil hold help and fun for young hands: 1) Give a child or children some corn. Use candy corn or the hard corn found at this season. You could even cut up tiny bits of orange paper and pretend it’s … Continue reading
Curious Cursive
Barchowsky Fluent Handwriting presents basic and cursive italic. The basic letters are essentially the same as the cursive ones. Once the basic letters are learned they move easily into cursive, but is it cursive as you understand cursive? What does … Continue reading
Have You Seen This?
Often I hear that this series of videos is helpful to people who want to improve their handwriting. Please have a look. Hope it helps! http://www.monkeysee.com/play/9112-how-to-improve-handwriting
Got Touch Screen?
What a great way to train fingers for handwriting! Many apps for touch screens encourage us to move around the screen with the index finger. Sadly, the thumb dominates in much of our electronic world. It may well contribute to … Continue reading
From The Link Magazine’s Homeschool Blog
People Judge the Quality of Your ideas by Your Handwriting That is a quote from Dr. Steven James, professor of Education at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Dr. James is quoted in an extensive and very interesting piece in the Wall … Continue reading
HOLD—NOT GRIP
Hold is good. Grip is bad. Those great little helpers that go on pencils are called pencil grips. “Grip” makes me think clench the pencil tightly, and that’s the last thing we want to encourage. How we hold any tool … Continue reading