How to teach your child good handwriting. How to teach a child to write: working methods, useful games. The main causes of bad handwriting

But first, three important rules:

First, don't forget to show your child how to hold a pen correctly.

In order to easily fix the correct position of the handle, the instructions in our short but very useful video can help you

Secondly, teach children to write letters and numbers correctly

For me, for example, it was a discovery that a number occupies half a cell and there is always a slope in capital numbers. And I certainly didn’t know how to pronounce writing numbers and why.

And when writing letters, I never paid attention to how many elements there are. However, as it turns out, in order for children to learn to write, things that are so obvious to us need to be explained in detail.

Like the number of elements of a letter, and the type of connection of a letter with others.

The first thing I diagnosed was that the boys write completely incorrectly. That is why they do it slowly and their hand gets tired.

And the first thing I encountered when I started “retraining children,” and what many parents face, is the reluctance of children to write the same number or letter over and over again, or to write elements of the letter beautifully and accurately.

Unfortunately, it is impossible to learn to write without many hours of practice.

And I have collected the best techniques that help me every day when teaching my children

Lifehack No. 1 Help the knight

Like most boys, my children are not at all diligent, and writing is simply boring for them! So, you need to somehow interest him. What did we start doing?

At the beginning of each line, I schematically draw a knight, and at the end of the line, a dragon who is holding a princess captive in a castle. And I tell the children that in order to fight the dragon you need to build a bridge from letters to it.

It helped! The children enthusiastically began to write letters, trying to complete the bridge. And then they had to fight the dragon. So we still sometimes continue to practice writing. A crooked letter is a broken bridge element. So, the bridge will fall apart, and the knight will not get to the dragon...

Lifehack #2 Diary

Once a day, the boys fill out a diary, where they write one of the best events of the day and one of the worst. Sometimes they write only two words.

But they write.

In the diary, in the margins, be sure to draw the weather (sunny, cloudy) and write the temperature. Then it is very interesting to review the pages.

Life hack No. 3. Tic-tac-number

Using numbers, we play a kind of “Tic Tac Toe” with the boys. Only instead of X's and O's we have numbers. Sometimes they are the same. Those that we are currently training.

For example, triplets. I write “threes” in one color, Nikita in another. And our field is either 4 by 4, or even 5 by 5. It will turn out to be very exciting and interesting. And most importantly, after such games the child began to write numbers much better!

Life hack number 4. Elements of cursive writing.

Boys love to invent new letters from elements and just elements. More details in the video:

Life hack No. 5. Wolf and number.

The number should occupy half the cell. Therefore, during training, my child, dividing the cage in half, drew a “wolf” in the left half. And of course, he carefully drew out the number in the “right, right half”, so that God forbid the wolf would eat it.

Even now, when we are no longer dividing the cell in half, Nikita knows that it is better for the digital one to live in a “house,” otherwise “the wolf will eat it.” It was a life hack from Nikita) But it was easier for him to understand and remember why the number shouldn’t occupy the entire cell.

Lifehack #6. Water-water

Water practice of writing letters helps a lot. We take a brush and water, and begin to carefully draw a letter on the table with water. The water dries up - and the experiment in its place is unsuccessful.

And when the water letters begin to work out, we move on to practicing on the board with a marker. So, the child is not afraid of mistakes. And the training stage goes easily and without tears “I can’t do it”

Lifehack No. 7. Giganticles

My children and I often practice writing numbers like this. I dictate the numbers one by one, and the children write them in a row in each cell, for example: 654273292928292000298

And then we “read” what kind of gigantic number we got. To do this, you just need to show children what classes and ranks are, and how to read a super large number. The children are delighted! They consider it real magic.

Handwriting is one of the biggest primary school challenges children face.

But there are techniques to solve this problem

This is why we created a one-day training “Beautiful handwriting. All about calligraphy in 1 day”, which will take place on April 16 from 12:00

The training includes three separate blocks from which you will learn:

Block for preschoolers

• How to choose the right pen for a child
• How to write numbers correctly?
• How to write letters correctly?
• How to teach writing?
• What types of letter combinations are there?
• How to teach a child to hold a pen correctly?
• How to prevent your child's hand from getting tired?
• How to help your child write quickly and beautifully?
• When can you teach your child to write?

Block for schoolchildren

• Why do children write ugly?
• 5 rules of beautiful writing
• Hand training exercises
• If a child mirrors letters
• Exercises for beautiful writing
• Why write beautifully and quickly?
• How to correct a child's handwriting
• How to teach a child to write neatly
• Handwriting and a child’s success at school

Adult block

• How to double your writing speed
• How to determine character by handwriting

The recording will contain all the practical materials, a complete course on the correct spelling of each letter and much more.

The training will involve a lot of practice, so have pens and paper ready.

If you have the opportunity to buy a fountain pen, great!

Join the training right now and by the end of the training you will be able to help your child learn to write quickly and learn everything about calligraphy in 1 day.

Any parent wants to prepare their child for school as best as possible. Therefore, even before the child enters first grade, adults begin to teach the child the basics of mathematics, reading and writing.

And, if everything is clear with the first two points of preparing for school, then certain difficulties arise with writing. In particular, not a single teacher would recommend teaching a child how to draw written letters independently.

In the learning process, everything is important: seating, lighting, the sequence of learning capital letters, correct grip of the pen, the teacher’s explanations. The systematic practice of calligraphy plays an important role. In addition, children who have mastered writing early often use it situationally - to sign a drawing, a postcard, or leave a note. And not always in this case all the rules of writing are followed.

“But,” the parents will be surprised, “is it really impossible to take care in advance that the baby will write beautifully, quickly and competently in the future?” It is possible and even necessary! True, you will have to start small.

Younger preschoolers: preparation for writing begins with games

In principle, the baby begins to prepare for writing at the age of 3-5 years. At the same time, parents, playing with the baby, often do not even suspect it.

To notice that preparation for writing has begun, you need to think: “What exactly is necessary for a child to write correctly, without errors and accurately?” If you look into this in detail, it turns out that the skill itself does not play a leading role. When writing you need:

• attention;
• visual perception and memory;
• good command of gross and, most importantly, fine motor skills.

By playing exceptions with your child, assembling mosaics, lacing, making appliques, modeling from plasticine, dough and other available materials, you are already preparing him for writing.

From the point of view of preparing the hand, various types of drawing are very useful: with paints, pencils, felt-tip pens, fingers on paper, salt and various cereals.

Naturally, these are all play tasks, but a child of this age doesn’t need more. The most important thing is to encourage him to work more with his fingers and head. The more and more varied you play, the better.

We learn to do it right right away

One of the key points when teaching a child to write is developing the skill of correctly gripping a pen or pencil. This baby needs to be trained as early as possible. Already at the stage of the first “doodles”, suggest that he hold the pencil correctly.

The grip is made at a distance of about 1.5 centimeters from the stylus. The pencil lies on the upper phalanx of the middle finger and is fixed with the thumb and forefinger on top. Please note that your fingers should not be on the same line. The middle finger protrudes forward, then the index finger, and the thumb is at the greatest distance from the stylus.

It is advisable to purchase special triangular pencils, pens and markers. They are extremely difficult to hold incorrectly. There are also special attachments for pencils in the shape of animals to form the correct grip.

When the child begins the first exercises to prepare for writing, it will be important to monitor his posture: straight back, both hands resting on the table, elbows slightly protruding beyond its edge. You should not bend to the sides, and your baby should not lean his chest on the table. The legs are placed on a solid support and form a right angle at the knee joint.

It is advisable to equip the child's study area with a good desk and a chair with adjustable leg heights. Such interior items will last a long time.

Preparing for a letter from a senior preschooler

At the age of 5-6 years, the baby is ready to begin more serious activities. If the child is already familiar with the letters, it’s time to start “drawing” them. Show your baby how to “draw” a letter correctly, encourage him to put the letters together into words. Write letters and notes to each other. Praise your child for a beautifully drawn letter.

Draw simple elements with your little ones:

• sticks;
• circles;
• hooks;
• crosses.

At first the child will draw. Therefore, for the first lessons, a small album without any cells or rulers is best suited. Start with a large sheet of paper on which your baby can place elements of any size and in any quantity.

When you notice that the lines have become smoother and there is no longer a need for a gigantic size, invite the baby to write letters and elements on half the sheet, then on a quarter.

When your child copes with a similar task, get a notebook for preschoolers with a large square. Design it beautifully and originally so that the activity does not turn into a boring routine. When working with a notebook, the child will inevitably have to adhere to the same scale when writing elements.

A preschooler does not need the usual copybooks. But if a child shows a desire to write letters, he has significant perseverance and he himself is interested in the beautiful and clear outline of printed letters, you can find a copybook for preschoolers. They ask you to trace and then draw printed letters yourself. What is significant is that the copybooks for preschoolers are also in checkered patterns. He will get to know the line later.

It is also worth purchasing special workbooks for preschoolers of the appropriate age. In addition to boring hooks and letters, you will find a lot of interesting tasks in them to prepare your hand for writing - tracing something, shading, connecting lines and much more.

Spend 10-15 minutes writing every day. It is likely that on some days parents will have to be quite creative in order for the child to want to “play” drawing hooks and letters.

It’s good if printouts with coloring pages that require shading, drawings that need to be traced and other useful and interesting tasks are always available to the child - it is quite possible that during the day he himself will want to play with them.

How to help a student write beautifully and competently?

Finally, the baby entered first grade. Now writing classes will be more serious and will require more perseverance. Moreover, alas, homework does not replace individual assignments.

The modern program is structured in such a way that the time allotted for penmanship is very small, and tasks in modern copywriting are not enough to develop the skill of beautiful writing. Therefore, parents will have to study independently in parallel with the work of the teacher.

Purchase additional prescription

For the exercises, you don’t need to “reinvent the wheel”; just copy the usual school copybook in several copies and, instead of the prescribed 2-3 lines, write 5-6 daily.

Another benefit may be appropriate. The market offers a wide variety of options for performing copybooks, based on the wishes of the parents and the needs of the child. For example, it is good if a letter is written not once or twice at the beginning of a line, but is repeated several times on it. When working with such writing, it will be easier for the baby to copy the sample, since it will always be in his field of vision.

Copybooks with a rapid oblique ruler will help to form the correct inclination at the initial stage. The lines in them are located at a distance of only 5 mm from each other, forming a kind of “slanted cells”. For children who find it difficult to maintain the correct inclination, such additional writing will simply be a “lifesaver.”

Don't forget to show your chosen manual to your teacher. Perhaps he will recommend another recipe that better suits the requirements of the program.

Do not hurry

Write with your child only those letters that he has already learned to trace in class. And don’t worry that over time you will start to “lag behind” the program. Lessons are lessons, but the skill of drawing each letter will need to be reinforced. Let the baby learn to write beautifully only half of the letters he has completed by the end of the first half of the year - this is already very good.

Exercise regularly

Do not forget that classes should be regular and daily. Do not “pity” your child by allowing him not to sit down to write his copy during the holidays. 15-20 minutes a day is unlikely to ruin his entire rest.

When all the letters are mastered, move on to writing syllables, then words and, finally, sentences. There are also special recipes for these purposes.

How to teach writing correctly?

This is another question that parents of many first-graders ask. Let's start with the fact that absolutely any child in the first grade will make mistakes. Yes, even when copied from a book. And the reason for this is not even ignorance of the rules, but simply a large load on the baby’s brain while writing.

Now the child has to watch how beautifully he writes the letters, makes the correct connections, and maintains the slope. These skills are not yet automated. Accordingly, at any moment the concentration of attention on the correct spelling of a word can be reduced. Don't scold your child, just work with him patiently.

Literacy training should take place in parallel with calligraphy classes. When your child starts writing phrases and sentences, offer him a variety of copying tasks. And at the stage of working with small texts, let your child copy a few lines from the book every day.

Speak the words

To avoid annoying mistakes, immediately teach your child to pronounce the word he is about to write. By the way, an interesting pronunciation technique for improving students’ literacy was proposed by D.I. Tikhomirov at the end of the 19th century. He believed that in order to write a word correctly, it must be pronounced in full accordance with the spelling: “eGo”, “What”, “white”.

By practicing this approach, highlighting difficult places in words, you will help your child automatically pay attention to them in the future. In addition, it can turn boring activities into a rather exciting game of “distorting” words.

Train your attention

Most mistakes are made due to lack of attention. Regularly during reading and writing lessons, offer your child a small game: find all the letters “A” or “E” in the text, combinations of letters according to the rule you have learned. Offer your child tasks in which you need to insert the missing letter.

When is a specialist needed?

In some cases, it is not possible to cope with illiterate spelling of words without the intervention of a speech therapist or child psychologist. About 50% of modern first-graders and approximately 35% of secondary school students suffer from dysgraphia. It can be recognized by specific mistakes made by the child:

• The baby makes mistakes even in stressed vowels and clearly audible consonants.
• Does not recognize paired consonants (“b-p”, “k-g”, “d-t”).
• Skips, repeats or rearranges letters, and even entire syllables.
• Does not see differences in graphically similar elements (“r-b”, “e-z”, etc.).
• Does not mark the end of a sentence with a period, and regularly writes the beginning of a phrase with a small letter.
• Doesn't complete the endings of words.
• Some letters and numbers are written in mirror image.

If at least one of the errors listed above occurs in a child’s work with enviable regularity, it is worth consulting with a teacher and speech therapist. The sooner work on correcting written speech begins, the better. Of course, this will require some effort on the part of both the parents and the child, but the prognosis in 90% of cases is extremely favorable.

Remember that both beautiful handwriting and proper spelling are trainable skills. However, it is important that the learning process does not become a punishment for the child. Don't scold him for an ugly letter or a wrong word. On the contrary, praise him more often, draw his attention to those elements that he did well, encourage him and express your confidence that soon all the letters of the baby will be just as beautiful. Proper motivation, encouragement and support are essential foundations for successful studies.

Many parents of preschoolers and children of primary school age are wondering how to teach their child to write beautifully, accurately and competently. This is not an easy task, but it is quite within the capabilities of caring parents. The main thing in this matter is determination, patience and adherence to certain rules, which will be discussed below.

However, in our modern age of computer technology, the statement about the need to teach a child to write beautifully is quite controversial: the ability to type quickly is much more valued. However, answer yourself this question: do you want your child’s grades to be lowered at school because of poorly readable handwriting? I'm sure not.

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Why do we need beautiful handwriting?

Each person has an individual handwriting that is developed over many years. In the primary grades, schoolchildren learn to write, mastering calligraphy for children, and then spend a long time polishing this skill, writing dictations, essays and summaries. However, beautiful, legible handwriting in an adult is quite a rare occurrence.

Many parents of preschoolers and children of primary school age are wondering how to teach their child to write beautifully, accurately and competently. This is not an easy task, but it is quite within the capabilities of caring parents. The main thing in this matter is determination, patience and adherence to certain rules, which will be discussed below.

However, in our modern age of computer technology, the statement about the need to teach a child to write beautifully is quite controversial: the ability to type quickly is much more valued. However, answer yourself this question: do you want your child’s grades to be lowered at school because of poorly readable handwriting? I'm sure not.

What should you do if you see terrible scribbles in your student’s notebook, the letters “dance” in different directions and look, to put it mildly, not neat? You can try to correct bad handwriting by tutoring your child yourself. Teaching a child to write beautifully is a completely solvable task, the main thing is to practice regularly, and the result will not be long in coming.

Some people think that additional calligraphy classes overload the child. I think that the ability to write beautifully and accurately will never be superfluous. In addition, writing classes develop fine motor skills (the dexterity of a child’s fingers), and this helps in intellectual development.

I’ll say right away thatteach your child to write beautifully- the task is much more complex than just teaching him to write letters and words. Developing beautiful handwriting will require persistent work from the student, daily practice until the desired skill is established.

How to mark a child's handwriting?

Let's start with the fact that training should not start too early. Parents who are so proud of their 4-5 year old child’s success in penmanship often grab their heads later: after going to school, the child begins to write “like a chicken with its paw”, gets tired quickly, and does not try. The reason for this is the unpreparedness of the child’s hand for writing at such an early age. After all, it’s not for nothing that children used to go to school at the age of 7 and only study writing in the first grade. In order to learn calligraphy, a child must have sufficiently developed fine motor skills. You need to do this starting from a very early age. Fine motor skills training is any exercise that involves the fingers: drawing, modeling, appliqué, finger games, etc.

When a child opens the first copybooks, parents should be especially careful. This is the key moment in developing the skill of writing beautifully. If you miss it, it will be much more difficult to correct your child’s handwriting, because, as a rule, habits form very quickly in childhood.

So, pay attention to the following points:

1. The child's seat at the desk must comply with the norms (back is straight, both hands are on the surface of the table, head is slightly tilted).
2. Make sure your child is holding the pen correctly. If the writing instrument is in the wrong position, the hand quickly gets tired, the letters turn out uneven, and the child gradually develops poor handwriting.

To teach your child to write beautifully, purchase everything you need for classes.

1. You will need:
   - a soft simple pencil (preferably a triangular one);
   - comfortable ballpoint, or better yet, gel pen;
   - copybooks for writing - 2 types: copybooks with letters and words written in dotted dots (or in pale gray), and copybooks where after each printed letter (word) there is a space for writing it (it) by hand;
   - a notebook with a narrow oblique ruler.
2. Teach your child to hold a pen and pencil correctly.

You need to buy the most comfortable handle. Now there are special ones with indentations for the fingers. This pen is very helpful at the initial stage, so that the child learns to hold it correctly.

It is necessary to pay special attention to how the child holds the pen. If he gets used to holding it incorrectly, then retraining him and teaching the child to write beautifully will be much more difficult.

The pencil or pen should rest on the upper phalanx of the middle finger and be held in place by the thumb and index finger. In this case, the thumb should be higher than the index finger. Make sure the tip of the pen is pointing toward your shoulder.

1. If your child has difficulties, do not scold him for it, do not raise your voice or punish him. Everyone makes mistakes, especially children during their learning period. Your task is to help overcome difficulties, and this can only be achieved with attentive attitude and practical advice.
2. When your child draws sticks and circles and then begins the first letters, be there and supervise the process. In the future, also, do not let learning take its course: always check your first-grader’s homework, since it is still difficult for a child to write both beautifully and correctly, and errors may occur in his written speech.
3. Constantly train your child's ability to deftly use his fingers.

You cannot teach a child to write beautifully if he does not know how to tie shoelaces or fasten buttons.

The following activities develop fine motor skills:
- cutting out parts of different sizes with scissors and making appliqués from them;
- origami;
- coloring and shading exercises;
- drawing in any form - with a brush, chalk, pencils;
- drawing on buckwheat;
- games with small details - puzzles, mosaics, construction sets;
- lacing, braiding, embroidery, knitting, beading;
- modeling from plasticine.

Stages of learning beautiful writing

1. The first stage is outlining.

Use special copybooks with letters and words written in dotted dots. In addition to letters, such copybooks also contain various sticks, wavy lines, geometric shapes, patterns and even pictures. This is where you should start learning beautiful writing.

When the child is already good at drawing lines, ovals, curves, etc., you can move on to writing letters, numbers and words. By tracing them, the child trains his fingers and learns to write letters and their connections correctly.

Children like classes using such recipes. They enjoy watching the dots turn into beautiful letters. A little time will pass, and the child will be able to write beautifully without the help of dotted lines.

At this stage, you can add graphic dictations, when the child, on command, traces lines in a notebook in a box:2 cells left, two cells up. etc. and so on.

2. The second stage is practicing writing letters, syllables and words according to the model.

Use copybooks in which there is a template letter (sample) before the space for writing a letter by hand. At the same time, the child will always have the correct beautiful letter before his eyes. The fact is that when writing a letter, the child looks at the previous one, and if he did not write it well enough, he will copy it.

Make it a rule to move on to mastering a new letter only after the child has learned to write the previous one beautifully. It doesn't matter how long it takes - half an hour or more than a week. It is also necessary to first teach the child to write letters beautifully, and only then move on to syllables and words.

3. The third stage is rewriting entire phrases and texts using copybooks of the first and second types. These exercises will help you approach rewriting yourself.

4. The next stage is to consolidate writing skills: let the child write a few lines every day from any story, poem or song. Of course, he must write them beautifully and accurately. To do this, buy him a notebook with a thin, oblique ruler, which will make it very easy to write letters, serving as an additional “support” for them.

This stage of training is the most difficult, because before your eyes there is no longer an ideal model to look up to.

Correction of handwriting in children

Correcting children's handwriting is much more difficult than initially learning to write. But it is possible to improve a child’s handwriting, and this should be started as soon as it begins to deteriorate. When correcting handwriting, an important point is patience, both for children and parents.

Before you start correcting handwriting, convince your child of the need for such work. Under no circumstances force your child to practice calligraphy if he doesn’t want to. Such activities will not bring results. Better think about how you can stimulate his desire to write more beautifully!

When starting classes, be prepared for the fact that not everything will work out the first time. Therefore, do not scold or punish your child for failures. It is also impossible to compare his achievements with the achievements of other children. This can completely discourage learning, and without this it is impossible to teach a child to write beautifully.

On the contrary, praise him for his diligence and for the successes he has achieved over a period of time. Save all his works, return to them, compare the results. Then the child will have an incentive to develop.

Don’t forget that your child should definitely rest between studying at school, doing homework and practicing writing. It is advisable that these be active games or a walk in the fresh air. After all, if a child is very tired, he will lose all desire to learn.

To make it easier to teach your child to write beautifully, break the learning process into several stages.

1. Tracing method. Buy tracing paper and invite your child to trace the letters by placing it on top of the copybook. This has a good effect: the skill of perceiving and then reproducing letters correctly is developed. Each letter needs to be “practised” long enough until the skill becomes automatic.
2. Do not buy regular copybooks, but print them from the Internet. In standard copybooks, each letter is given a clearly limited number of lines, while your child may need much more. Let the child write line by line, sheet by sheet, until the hand “remembers” the movement.
3. When all the copybooks have been completed, you should consolidate your skills by writing dictations.

It may take more than one month or even a year to teach a child to write beautifully, but it is worth it. After all, beautiful, neat handwriting is the face of every schoolchild!

Many parents of primary schoolchildren are faced with the fact that it is difficult for their child to quickly and beautifully write letters and numbers. This leads to the fact that the child’s handwriting becomes sloppy and difficult to read even for the baby himself. And this leads to regular mistakes. And parents are faced with a completely reasonable question: how to teach their child to write beautifully. Children's unformed handwriting, trembling and uneven, which in an adult would be called "clumsy", requires constant training. Learning to write smoothly and accurately is quite a difficult task even for younger schoolchildren who are already working with texts, not to mention younger children. Learning for them, of course, should be carried out in a playful way - and although letters require a certain perseverance, it is better to turn all calligraphy lessons into a kind of game in which parents will also join.

The formation of children's handwriting

In childhood, children do not yet know how to handle a pen or pencil; they hold them uncertainly and often incorrectly, which is why the lines come out crooked and the letters uneven. Proportions also suffer - often in younger schoolchildren's notebooks the words are of different sizes, violate the established boundaries of lines and margins and look very untidy.

The beginning of classes to “educate” handwriting are two main points that first of all need to be explained to the child:

1. the baby must learn to hold a pen and pencil correctly: at the same time, it is important to remember that the ideal and truly correct option for the child should be comfortable - you should not be allowed to write with the pen in your fist, or place your fingers in an arbitrary way, but you need to require the correct position of the fingers on it (as in the first photo) - this position will allow you to further increase your writing speed;
2. the proportions and sizes that the letters should differ in should also be explained in advance: this can be taught on the basis of drawing, understanding that any figures can be different and the same size.

Working with geometric shapes

You can get rid of uneven lines and uncertain movements with the help of simple drawing. To do this, it is not even necessary to require any complex paintings from the child; just simple work with geometric shapes is enough. So, for example, a child can first trace and then try to draw circles, squares and various triangles on his own. To prevent such activities from seeming boring, you can put together different designs from geometric shapes or ask the child to come up with some compositions from them - a snowman made of circles, a house made of a square and a triangle, a New Year tree made of triangles with round ball decorations.

It is when working with correct geometric shapes that the child will learn to keep an even line and even maintain established proportions (for example, draw triangles of the same size). Such an exercise will be useful both for very young children and for younger schoolchildren, for whom constant handwriting training is important.

Standard copybooks

Usually, learning to write begins with standard children's copybooks, which cannot be ignored. They are the basis of children's calligraphy, they allow you to get acquainted with letters and the possibilities of writing them, and also explain the features of writing different letters and entire words.

Usually, copybooks are purchased only for primary schoolchildren, but there are a sufficient number of simple specialized notebooks that can be purchased even before the first grade. Often they contain not only repeating lines where you need to trace and write the letters yourself, but also interesting tasks, illustrations and information that is interesting for the child, allowing you to better remember the alphabet or interesting facts from different areas: the animal world, children's fairy tales and other things.

It is better to select copybooks together with the child, so that he himself chooses a notebook that is attractive to him and subsequently learning from it brings pleasure.

Working with large texts

After the child learns to accurately write letters and learns the rules for combining them in words, you can move on to working on entire texts, which are an indicator of handwriting. Still, the ability to write a beautiful letter does not guarantee beautiful handwriting when writing long sentences.

Younger schoolchildren usually have assignments to rewrite texts, very quickly, but at home such work can be turned into the same game.

For example, you can write letters with your child. Thus, messages will be received by Father Frost, and the Snow Maiden, and grandparents, and many more people to whom the child will want to write a real paper letter, packed in an envelope with drawn or pasted stamps.

Another trick is to ask them to rewrite some text. It is advisable that this be a handwritten text, written in clear block letters by someone of their parents. The child will probably be flattered by the request to rewrite the existing text beautifully, and he will try his best to achieve a truly attractive result. This trick is suitable for children of all ages - toddlers and primary schoolchildren to older children in fourth and fifth grades.

Calligraphy lessons

Of course, standard calligraphy training, typical for adults, is beyond the capabilities of children - working with quills or fountain pens, ink and gouache will only be a waste of time, and will not in any way affect the beauty of children's handwriting. In addition, after a long time of working with copybooks (which are a replacement for real calligraphy), the child is unlikely to be interested in accurately writing the same letters.

But it is possible to transform learning by involving, for example, the same younger schoolchildren in creating interesting and unusual letters. Thus, letters can be of various shapes and sizes, painted in different colors, with drawings and patterns. You can draw large letters on paper, cut them out and make garlands, you can create unusual posters, or you can sign cards for relatives and friends in an interesting way.

Such training makes it possible not only to regularly write out the same letters and practice writing them, but also to use imagination to decorate them colorfully, and then cut them out and secure them in the necessary way.

Basic rules for teaching writing

Both in teaching primary schoolchildren and in raising very young children, it is important to adhere to several basic rules that will stimulate children’s interest in training beautiful handwriting:

• all activities should take place in a playful format, even the same letters and training in writing them can be turned into something unusual and interesting by asking the child to design and paint them;
• You can stimulate a child’s interest in practicing beautiful handwriting based on an example of beautiful adult handwriting - usually children are guided by their parents’ handwriting, which they find beautiful and difficult to repeat;
• Regularity of classes is important, which will allow you to “fill” your hand and enable children’s hands to remember the spelling of all the letters;
• In no case should you scold a child if some elements of letters or words cannot be written and look childishly sloppy; over time, handwriting will definitely stabilize;
• Despite the previous recommendation, it is important not to allow one to “shy away” from calligraphy practice, since it is their constancy that guarantees the development of truly neat handwriting, in addition, such work has a positive effect on children’s perseverance.

In general, teaching a child to write beautifully is not so difficult; it is important to stimulate his interest in this process and not forget about regular lessons. With age, childhood unevenness and sloppiness will pass, and written texts will seem more accurate.

The modern education system places very high expectations on children, while also posing rather difficult tasks. Arriving in 1st grade, children should already know letters and be able to read syllables.

And, if most often there are no difficulties with reading, the so-called “writing” often becomes a real “stumbling block” for first-graders. Is it possible to teach a child to write beautifully and correctly? And who should do this: the school or the parents?

Why write beautifully?

No one has any questions about literacy. Even in our age of speed and computerization, competent speech and writing distinguish an educated and successful person. And no one canceled grades at school. But whether it is necessary to write beautifully today is a matter of great debate.

There is an opinion that in the near future the skill of fast typing will be much more valued. However, experts say, beautiful handwriting means not only that a child has neatness and perseverance (although many parents would not refuse to develop these skills in their schoolchildren).

The ability to write beautifully is, first of all, well-developed fine motor skills, and this is precisely what is responsible for high abilities for intellectual development.

Besides, no one wants their child's grade to be lowered because of poor handwriting. By the way, when taking exams - State Examination and Unified State Examination - it is very important that letters and numbers are recognized correctly, because this can lead to loss of points.

When should you start exercising?

The hours devoted to practicing beautiful calligraphic handwriting at school have been greatly reduced. This means that parents will have to teach their child to write beautifully. And there is an opinion that it is better to start preparing the baby before the child starts studying in 1st grade.

Principles of preparing preschool children for writing

In preschool age, you need to start, of course, not with learning how to write letters in calligraphy, but with preparing and correctly positioning your hand. It is extremely important that the child holds the pen correctly and sits at the table.

The following video will tell you how to teach your child to hold a pencil or pen correctly:

It is highly advisable to carry out such activities starting from middle preschool age.

What will you need?

You will need:

• pencils (it is better to purchase special ones, with three edges, which ensure proper grip);
• copybooks (for preschoolers, shading, numbers and block letters are suitable);
• patience and working spirit.

Let us emphasize once again that teaching children to write capital letters before school is not recommended. Teachers persistently ask parents not to do this. At school, different rules and spellings may be discovered and it will be very difficult for the child to relearn.

But you can write in block letters as much as you like!

How to work with preschoolers?

Classes on preparing the hand for beautiful writing for preschoolers can be divided into two parts - the development of fine motor skills in general, and preparation for writing. Moreover, it is advisable to master the first part of the classes in middle preschool age, and the second part in senior preschool, closer to admission.

Exercises and games to develop motor skills

For hand motor skills, you can do a lot of different activities, for example:

• teach your child to lace - from various playing pieces to ordinary shoes;
• sculpt from plasticine and other materials;
• draw not only with paints and a brush, but also with any available materials - fingers on the grain, a thin brush on paper, a sponge through a stencil. You can color pictures on paper, or you can paint three-dimensional figures.

Writing Preparation Activities

Closer to school, the child can be encouraged to study more purposefully. For this purpose, there are a lot of special recipes on sale, developed specifically for preschoolers.

Older preschoolers can be asked to complete the following tasks:

• do various types of shading;
• complete the picture;
• circle the dotted sticks and hooks;
• write numbers and block letters.

Having practiced these skills, at school children usually already hold their hand and pencil quite confidently and write quite accurately.

How to teach a primary school student to write accurately?

Most often, problems with handwriting arise at school. Whether this happens because the baby is in a hurry, the hand is unprepared, or for some other reason, it is not always possible to understand.

But you can certainly help your child write neatly and clearly. The main thing is to make sure that he wants it. Try to find arguments for this.

What will you need?

You will need:

• comfortable handle, preferably gel, with crown edges to develop the correct grip;
• copybooks - for practicing writing individual letters and for writing phrases and sentences;
• notebook with oblique rulers.

Learning to write letters and numbers beautifully: a step-by-step method

Introducing bias ruling

Start practicing by getting familiar with the oblique ruler. Make sure your child understands and uses these oblique lines. Ask him to just trace the lines themselves first.

Then explain that each letter, each hook must begin at a certain point, starting from an oblique line.

Trace the shapes and letters in the copybooks

The child learns to trace, and then trains to write individual letters himself. If necessary, you can start with ovals, hooks, shapes, and then trace the letters themselves. The main rule is not to move on to a new letter until the previous one has been completely mastered.

Don't forget about the numbers. As it turns out, not many guys write them beautifully. If there are no numbers in your copybooks, write them in your notebook yourself.

Circle the words

It is important that the child sees the model at this time. Then he will be able to see how to write the letters correctly and beautifully.

Mastering copybooks with sentences

When you see that the child is coping with writing individual words quite successfully, you can move on to the next step. Provide copybooks with examples of complete sentences. Do not rush to stop practicing at this stage, the skill needs to be consolidated.

We write words and sentences in a notebook using an oblique ruler

To reinforce this, you can invite your child to practice writing words and sentences in a notebook using an oblique ruler.

We train and strengthen the skill of accurate writing

And the last stage should be practice writing small texts in a notebook. The child can copy short texts from an ABC book or children's book.

How to teach a schoolchild to write correctly?

Parents can certainly help their children develop beautiful handwriting. How to teach a child to write without mistakes? Teachers admit that the literacy level of modern schoolchildren is not very encouraging.

What if your child is one of those whose writing scores are not the best?

Rule out dysgraphia

First, decide whether your child has dysgraphia. According to statistics, 30% of modern schoolchildren make mistakes when writing precisely for this reason.

Take a closer look, maybe this applies to your child too:

• mistakes are made in the simplest words and even in stressed vowels;
• the end of the sentence is not marked, there are no periods, the new sentence begins with a small letter;
• letters are skipped or repeated;
• syllables are rearranged;
• some letters are turned the other way, written in mirror images (E, Z, V, B or numbers 3, 4, 5).

If you suspect that your child has dysgraphia, it is better to contact a specialist: a school speech therapist or psychologist. It is not very easy to cope with it, but knowing the “enemy” by sight, you can defeat him without a doubt.

What to do if it is not dysgraphia?

What if there is no “good” reason, and the child’s writing is illiterate? Scold and punish? No, help and engage.

Practice rewriting texts

It's not a bad idea to learn the rules, but your child probably knows them. Maybe there is not enough practice and skill? Start with rewriting. Let the child simply copy short texts from a book into a notebook. The main thing is regularity.

Teach your child to pronounce the text he writes to himself

Develop mindfulness. Offer to find and underline only the letters A or O in the text. Ask your child to whisper all the words he writes while studying at home.

By the way, the method of pronunciation echoes an interesting technique invented by the famous scientist D.I. Tikhomirov. He suggested reading “as it is written” to develop competent writing. That is, pronounce the words loudly and clearly - “what”, not “chevo”, as we say, “sineGo”, not “sinevo”.

This method develops the habit of paying attention to the spelling of words. When writing, the child automatically “pronounces” all the words to himself. This technique gives truly noticeable results.

Convince your child to read more

And of course, reading. Teach your child to read more. And get busy. Gradually, dictations will work out better and better.