How to Teach Left-Handed Kids to Write In Cursive
Left-handed students have special needs and challenges when it comes to learning how to write. For these students, taking a few steps to help them avoid bad habits can have long-lasting benefits. Just as with right-handed students, when left-handed students master the skills required to write in cursive it becomes second nature.
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Take steps to ascertain that your student is left-handed, if you aren't positive of the dominant hand. Play catch with a small ball and pay attention to which hand the child throws with. Another idea is to offer the child a few uncapped jars and ask the child to screw the lids on. The hand they handle the lids with is their dominant hand.
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Instruct student to hold the pencil between their left thumb and forefinger, about an inch from the point. Left-handed students should learn to write cursive before manuscript if possible, which will help them avoid the bad habit of hooking their hand around to write.
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Instruct students to keep their paper tilted clockwise as they work, which forces left-handed students to start their letters properly from the bottom to the top. Starting from the top and working to the bottom for each letter is a bad habit picked up when left-handed students tilt their papers counter-clockwise.
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Mark papers to remind left-handed students to work from left to right, since it may at first feel more natural to them to write from right to left.
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