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Handwriting
Without Tears
Interactive
Metronome
Tips
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Camp
HandRIGHTing Ink helps children come to grips with legible script.
by Lini S. Kadaba - Philadelphia Inquirer - July
13, 1999
Camp HandRIGHTing Ink
MetroKids Feature
Check out “How Handwriting Trains the Brain, Forming Letters is Key to Learning, Memory, Ideas”, by Gwendolyn Bounds, Wall Street Journal, October 5, 2010.
Research at Indiana University has found through the use of magnetic resonance imaging that writing by hand is foundational to learning. It helps with learning shapes, letter recognition and can improve idea composition, expression and fine motor coordination.
One study at Indiana University utilized functional MRI mapping of neural activity in the brain as children performed handwriting tasks. What was found was important. The children were shown letters before and after receiving different letter-learning instruction. Children who had practiced printing by hand had neural activity that was for more enhanced and adult-like than those who had simply looked at the letters.
Regarding the ability of the brain to compose thoughts and ideas, Virginia Berninger, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Washington, says handwriting is different from typing because it “requires executing sequential strokes to form a letter, whereas keyboarding involves selecting a whole letter by touching a key.” The carryover to composition is implied through the necessary act of sequencing thoughts to become an idea.
Read more about these and other studies at: www.wsj.com and type in the Search box: “How Handwriting Boosts the Brain”
See these other informative articles:
News-Line article: Enhancing Function While Improving Penmanship
Philadelphia Magazine Article: "The
Death of Handwriting", July 2011:The
Death of Handwriting - Philadelphia Magazine
New York Times: Watch How You Hold That Crayon
Philadelphia Inquirer: Handwriting: A Lost Pursuit
Philadelphia Inquirer: Writing not on Wall yet for Handwriting
Time Magazine:
Mourning the Death of Handwriting
Time Magazine:
Science: Handwriting as Character
CNN:
'Snail Mail' Project Promotes Art of Letters
CNN:
How Friends, Family Spark Handwriting Change
CNN:
Nation of Adults Who Will Write Like Children?
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