Once your child has learnt the early mark making skills they should then move onto pre-writing patterns and formation of letters and numbers.
If your child is struggling with their handwriting then it might help to go back and practice their early mark making skills and pre-writing patterns using the following links:
When you child has developed their early mark making then they can move onto forming letters and numbers. We recommend these are taught using the following multi sensory approaches.
Handwriting Group 3 Youtbe videos
It is important to do lots of practice with these activities, encourage starting and sequencing the letters in the same way each time.
Correct errors early by modelling the correct formation of letters and numbers. Continue to encourage your child to use a good pencil grip when practicing pencil skills. See the pencil grip page for details.
It might be a good idea to ask your school in what order they teach letters/numbers. Use the links above/below to reminder yourself of the stages of mark making and handwriting skills.
If your child is struggling with handwriting speed or flow (e.g difficulties with cursive writing or managing speed of writing) then the following activities may be helpful
Children’s Therapy (Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy)