Since PRACTICE makes PERMANENT, teachers need to be very careful HOW their students practice hand-writing. Once learned incorrectly, it is very difficult to change.
Explicitly teaching features of 'good' hand-writing, has resulted in a very noticeable improvement in the quality of my students hand-writing.
In this resource I have made 9 charts, each featuring one aspect.
Begin by focusing on only one or two features, and as students develop greater competence, gradually add other features to be