School And Your Child
By John Corey
Education Department
Appalachian State
Teachers College
Handwritings It’s Less
Fatiguing To Write “Pretty”
(Forty years ago teachers trea
ted handwriting chiefly as an act
of skill. 'Today it’s considered
more as a method of communica
tion, like 'the typewriter or the
old Indian smoke signal.
The modem viewpoint appears
to be that the content of a mes
sage is the important thing, not
how “pretty" it’s written.
!A warning against this logic
comes from (Mrs. Dorris R. Davis,
14-year veteran teacher of hand
writing at the Laboratory ele
mentary school on the campus of
Appalachian State Teachers Col
lege, Boone, N. C.
Handwriting must be legible
enough for the content to be un
derstood, days IMns. Davis. Other
wise comlmunioation fails. And
as long as one is writing, she
asks, wlhy not make it attractive,
especially Since a graceful style
pleases the eye and actually fa
tigues the writer less?
Dr. Frank Freeman, dean eme
ritus of (the University of Cali
fornia (Berkley) school of edu
cation and' probably the nation’s
foremost authority on teaching
handwriting, paints a displeasing
picture of handwriting practices
in school.
After examining 136,000 hand
writing specimens collected from
all parts of the country, Dr. Free
man notes that 1) students' hand
writing improves comparatively
little after the sixth grade; 2) an
excessively wide gap exists be
tween the best and poorest of
handwriting; 3) and the major
writing faults are not in legibili
ty of individual letters but in
smoothness, evenness, and line
fluency.
Dr. Freemian would suggest
that form/al handwriting instruc
tion extend beyond the sixth
grade and that teachers place
greater emphasis on smooth,
fluent strokes as an essential to
really good writing.
In line with Dr. Freeman’s sug
gestion, North Carolina several
years ago adopted a plan for tea
ching handwriting as a separate
subject through eighth grade,
states Mrs. Davis.
(In fact, the hook (METHOD OF
HANDWRITING, Ndble and No
ble, was selected and is available
to Tar (Heel schools. It’s now up
to administrators and teachers
whether the skill is taught form
ally beyond the sixth grade.
(Just how is handwriting taught
in schools today? Mrs. Davis, who
instructs teadhers-tobe at Appa
lachian State Teachers College
how to teach writing, explains
it this way.
The first grader begins with
“manuscript writing,” Which con
sists mainly of circles (o’s) and
straight line® (l’s). Some parents
incorrectly call this ‘'printing.”
There is a distinct difference be
tween "printed” and manuscript
letters. This doesn’t mean manu
script writing is a *'baby" method
of writing, however. Actually it”s
better for many purposes, states
Mrs. Davis.
All through the first grade and
on into the second the child works
at perfecting his manuscript wri
ting. Usually hell write an un
lined paper with crayons at first.
Change-over time to cursive
writing occurs in the third grade
in most schools. TMis is the writ
ing that mother and father ijse.
Junior considers starting it is
an important milestone in his
education. The youngster also be
gins to use regular pencils in the
third grade. Pen and ink come
later, in the fifth and sixth.
All along the teacher continu
ally helps Junior improve the
shape, size, apace, and slant of his
writing. She gives him opportun
ities to practice writing words
that have real meaning for him,
Mrs. Davis points out.
And as Junior grows older, he
finds his own ways to practice.
He’ll write letters to grandmoth
er, order model airplanes from
cereal companies, send thank you
notes, notify the milkman to de
liver extra bottles of milk — ail
of which is good writing experi
ence.
Dr. Freeman of the University
of California, warns parents to
be careful not to force Junior's
writing pace too fact. Muscular
coordination has much to do with
his progress, says the handwrit
ing expert. The first grader’s
small! wrist and arm muscles, for
instance, are not so well develop
ed as the larger muscles and they
need space and materials to
•'spread out” in their writing.
Understanding teachers and
parents realize thlat Junior’s ima
gination often surpasses his abil
ity to write, and they don’t fuss
when he misspeQls or uses the
wrong words. They know that ac
curacy and speed improve in
time.
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Mr. Roberts'
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(Funeral service® tor Mrs. Jam
j es A. Kiser, 06, of Rock Hill, S.
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Other survivors include her
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