[etni] Fw: re: learning cursive
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- Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:46:01 +0200
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From: <laurie@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: learning cursive
Thanks, Patricia,
Guess, without my actually knowing what it's called, have moved over
myself to "round hand" rather than using the traditional US cursive or
"overhand" as it's called here. Seems like a good comporomise and I find it
fast and easy. My kids always ask me to teach them "cursive" and I've always
done it the way I was taught in the US but maybe I'll make a deliberate
effort to change that; I'll look for a website with practice papers for them
to copy or something of the like. And it really is worth the time and I
don't think you need to allot a lot of time; even a few minutes a lesson
would be helpful. Before this thread began, I'd already started to think I'd
deal with this issue in aLL my classes next year.
Laurie
Patricia wrote:
> Since I have had several off list emails about underhand writing
> (British
> teachers know what I'm talking about and Americans don't!) I did some
> seaching in Google and came up with the site below. Of course, it
> would
> be much easier just to demonstrate on a blackboard but I hope things
> become
> clearer when looking at the way the letters are joined. Underhand
> (called
> roundhand in England) writing links letters from the bottom of each
> letter
> (except for o,r, w, and v) and the style of each letter is more like
> print;
> whereas overhand links each letter from the top. The best examples
> can be
> seen when joining two ms or ns together - overhand will result in a
> line of
> arches whereas underhand will mark the difference between the two
> letters.
>
> Underhand is also much easier for LD students to master and also for
> all ESL
> students to read.
>
> This makes for interesting reading:
> http://www.english.bham.ac.uk/staff/tom/website/handwriting/new_web_pages/acquisition.htm
>
> and explains everything much better than I can. If you follow the links
> there are some good examples.
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