Hand dominance is the natural tendency for human beings to favour one hand over the other.  It requires coordination of the small muscles in the hand to properly control a writing tool. 

These abilities involve coordinating the small muscles at the ends of student’s fingers that help form letters while writing.

1. Do  sit up  straight.  (Imagine you have a long neck like a giraffe touching the roof.)  Your nose should be at least a ruler length away from your desk.

Handwriting is a complex procedure of managing written language by coordinating the eyes, arms, hands, pencil grip, letter formation, and body posture.  

Teachers often cite to ‘good handwriting’. It is important to interpret what the qualities of good handwriting. There are three broad program goals: 

It is beneficial to work towards improving handwriting for both our students and instructors. Some benefits of fluent and legible handwriting are:

Is handwriting an  art  form,  or just  a  tool? Most  experts agree that, in yesteryears, schools have  cast too much  stress on  the ability to write neatly, and too little on  speed. Today even that is pathetically receding.

Research by Laura Dinehart of Florida International University’s college of education in Miami indicates that four-year-olds with strong handwriting skills of any kind are more likely to excel in math

Experts say handwriting notes help students to understand the material better. In a world relying increasingly on technology, more students are moving away from handwritten to online note-taking.

Discovery is not an especially effective approach for learning handwriting. Handwriting is best taught in separate periods of direct instruction and teacher supervised practice. Teachers can take a proactive stand to definitively and