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Handwriting: Should Formal Instruction In Handwriting Be Taught To Elementary Students?, Cathleen Rutter
Handwriting: Should Formal Instruction In Handwriting Be Taught To Elementary Students?, Cathleen Rutter
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Having taught students Language Arts from 2nd grade through sophomore year of high school, I have encountered numerous samples of handwriting, with great variance in their legibility. It has caused me frustration as a beginning teacher trying to decipher what has actually been written and just what the student was trying to convey to myself, as their teacher. In some cases I have graded a spelling test, marked words incorrect because I could not read the letters in the word. But then, because I felt that the student has mastered the spelling of a given word, I had the student …