Summer Writing Camp: Beginner Handwriting Intro to Printing Letters

This class is led by an occupational therapist and uses some fundamentals and strategies for pre-writing skills for young learners based off of the Handwriting Without Tears/Learning Without Tears curriculum to teach cursive handwriting.  In Part 1 of the course this style is great for all learners because it teaches seating positioning, grasping skills of a writing utensil (pencil, crayon, marker), tracing and horizontal lines, vertical lines, diagonal lines and curve lines and basic shapes. In Part 2 of the course we review those pre-writing skills from Part 1 and apply it to writing horizontal, vertical, diagonal and curve lines and shapes independently. By using these basic writing skills, students will have the fundamentals writing skills and strategies to write uppercase and lowercase letters and numbers.

Each session will meet for 45 minutes. We will learn the basics of pre-writing and writing through direct instruction, video, on-screen annotations, and practice.  After each session, students will complete the worksheets provided to reinforce the lesson.

Part 1: Pre-Writing Skills: Seating Position, Grasping writing utensil, Tracing and copying line formations: vertical, horizontal, diagonal and curves and basic shape formations (Triangle, Square, Rectangle and Circle)
Part 2: Writing Skills: Review of Pre-Writing skills and independently writing line formations vertical, horizontal, diagonal and curves and more intricate shapes (heart, oval, +, x and rhombus (diamond).

Disclaimer:  I am a School Based occupational therapist offering handwriting instruction on Outschool.  My classes are not to be considered therapeutic intervention and should not replace occupational therapy interventions by a licensed practitioner in your area.