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<\/a><\/li>\n- Use Cats ! This is something I have used with P1 and beyond and is usually understood well by kids.\u00a0 Hopefully this image is self explanatory. ‘Cats bottoms must be on the wall’ or letters taking hot air ballon rides (letters lifting off the lines) is a phrase often heard!<\/li>\n
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<\/li>\n- Bellow is an example of how it is possible to join 2 S’s. You can actually generate these worksheets from this website\u00a0https:\/\/www.worksheetworks.com\/english\/writing\/handwriting\/handwriting-cursive-trace-old.html<\/a><\/li>\n
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<\/a> You can make your own with your own words and print if you have this luxury but you might also be able to make an image of it to trace over on an iPad.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n- \n
- Some children find it difficult to start down the margin of the page. You may have this…
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<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nA website suggests using washi tape – but who has got that or time for it?<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nUsually, a coloured dot at the start of the line can help.<\/strong><\/p>\n
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- Lastly, it may not be the ‘Windyknowe Way’, but there are all forms of handwriting and all we’d really encourage is neat presentation.\u00a0 I hope these tips are helpful and not too daunting. Miss c x<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hello, Please see some tips to help your child with hand writing. The green jotters supplied are a little bit narrower than p2 children would be used to, so they will maybe find this challenging. You could write over two lines. If you have the time (ha ha) you could draw a darker line to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15080,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-whole-school"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/windyknowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/windyknowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/windyknowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/windyknowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15080"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/windyknowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/windyknowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16100,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/windyknowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16096\/revisions\/16100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/windyknowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/windyknowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/windyknowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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