CadenceSophia Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 My daughter really hates to be taught anything. She is very quick and pretty well advanced. She likes to ask questions but hates to be directly instructed. She taught herself to read at age 2 with this method and subsequently taught herself to write by copying letters from a chart inside a notebook of lined paper. Because of this, she forms all her letters in a very bizarre manner. She writes a TON and doesn't like to be slowed down, so all handwriting lessons at the table have failed miserably this year. Her handwriting is pretty much the same as it was 4 years ago. I'm ready to pay someone to work with her, or sign her up for a calligraphy class or something. Before I give up completely, does anyone have any suggestions for self-instruction in letter formation? I know it is not common and not even recommended but she is a different sort of kid. I use the word independent but stubborn also applies :) Her patience for listening to me is only about 2 minutes, but if she had self-instruction materials she could go 5-6h a day. Very long attention span. Is there a good series of calligraphy videos out there perhaps? I'm open to ideas! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadia Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 HWOT (handwriting without tears) workbooks for script and cursive works for my independent oldest. Kumon handwriting workbooks works too but is costly so my kids didn't use it but my friends preschoolers used those for car rides. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CadenceSophia Posted March 22, 2017 Author Share Posted March 22, 2017 They did work with getting the right directions for letter strokes? I'm willing to try pretty much anything. My daughter has had (and completed) a few handwriting workbooks but no brand name ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadia Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 HWOT does emphasize letter strokes. My oldest after learning did develop his own style over the years but the strokes are still correct. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CadenceSophia Posted March 22, 2017 Author Share Posted March 22, 2017 Thanks! I'll give them a try. I don't really care what style she uses. She is pretty artistic and I am sure will develop a personal style eventually no matter what. I just need her to stop making her lower case R look like a cyrillic block letter g :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadia Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 I just need her to stop making her lower case R look like a cyrillic block letter g :) HWOT letter formation for lowercase https://www.hwtears.com/files/click/2013/TG2nd/2nd_HL_Fine%20Motor%20and%20Letter%20Practice%20for%20Home.pdf Lowercase cursive https://www.hwtears.com/files/cursvielowercase2013.pdf Parent resource page https://www.hwtears.com/hwt/parents/parent-extras 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eternalsummer Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 We do HWT cursive and DS does it on his own. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CadenceSophia Posted March 22, 2017 Author Share Posted March 22, 2017 HWOT letter formation for lowercase https://www.hwtears.com/files/click/2013/TG2nd/2nd_HL_Fine%20Motor%20and%20Letter%20Practice%20for%20Home.pdf Oh this! She likes it! I showed it to her right before bed and she wanted to do it right away. If she isn't interested by morning, I'll give her the option of going to bed or staying awake to work on handwriting tomorrow :-p She did already want to know why the C is magic though, and how you could make an e if you don't know how to play baseball. I ordered the kindergarten and 1st grade HWT books and some of that special paper that has yellow highlighting on the base line as she does have some odd letter orientation wrt the lines. I am sure I could just highlight some myself but she goes through oddles of paper a day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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