Teachers learn write way as penmanship returns Houston & Texas News Chron.com - Houston Chronicle:
"Pencil and paper — that's what Aldine teacher Ebony Brown typically uses to help her 4- and 5-year-old students learn to write.
“It's frustrating for them,” Brown said, noting that many children come to school unable to grip a pencil properly. “They don't have fine-motor skills.”
Brown, like most teachers, never took a college course in handwriting instruction, so on Friday she joined about 60 preschool educators and occupational therapists at a workshop in Houston to gain some pointers. (The first one: Start the young kids with crayons.)
Even in the computer age, handwriting is gaining more attention these days — especially in preschool classes — in part because parents are demanding it, said Katrina Erickson, who led the “Handwriting Without Tears” session."
"Pencil and paper — that's what Aldine teacher Ebony Brown typically uses to help her 4- and 5-year-old students learn to write.
“It's frustrating for them,” Brown said, noting that many children come to school unable to grip a pencil properly. “They don't have fine-motor skills.”
Brown, like most teachers, never took a college course in handwriting instruction, so on Friday she joined about 60 preschool educators and occupational therapists at a workshop in Houston to gain some pointers. (The first one: Start the young kids with crayons.)
Even in the computer age, handwriting is gaining more attention these days — especially in preschool classes — in part because parents are demanding it, said Katrina Erickson, who led the “Handwriting Without Tears” session."
