Teaching Kids to Write the Alphabet

Video Transcript

"At this time we can start having your child work on their handwriting. Handwriting is very very important. As you know, most adults as they get older or most children, their handwriting starts to deteriorate as they worry more about speed. The better their handwriting is when they're younger, the more they'll maintain a legible writing and God forbid they become doctors, you won't have to worry about some of those problems but in any case, as your child goes throughout their schooling and learns things, you want them to write clearly. If they do go to a regular school, it will be far more impressive to their teacher, it will be far more impressive when it's hung on the wall and it just makes other people reading their work that much more enjoyable. And it also, it helps them from developing poor writing skills to the point where you can't even tell what letter they're trying to form. If you try to do, just like with numbers, if you try to do a five too fast and you don't write it correctly like that, it'll end up looking like an s when you're going fast. Same way with letters, so start out with your capital letters because they're nice and big and your children, when they're younger, they have gross motor skills which means it's easier for them to do big motions than small. Start out with the capital letters and you can include the capital and the lower case together but make sure they do correct movements. Make sure, when I wrote that b I first went down and then I came up to make the circle part. I didn't go up first, I didn't do something that might be easier. To find out the complete alphabet, the correct strokes, you can look online, you can buy a chart at the store, if you remember from your own the correct way to do it then you're fine but make sure that it's consistent and every day you're teaching them the same strokes. Don't let them get away once with writing a t by going up for the first line instead of down for the first line and then across because it will turn into a bad habit and also developing good habits with writing, it will help them to write faster. Once their brain locks in that they're always using the same strokes over and over again, then they're able to write faster and more legibly so I would say have them write the full alphabet, upper case and lower case either together or separate, however you like, at least once a day."