Rooted in Language
Handwriting Struggle & Intervention Educator Class
Handwriting Struggle & Intervention Educator Class
Recorded Educator Class with PDF Download
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All students can become writers! But students with handwriting struggles often don’t believe this is possible. With your support, they can achieve their greatest writing potential!
When you help your students improve their handwriting skills, you are freeing up cognitive space for stronger, independent writing skills. You’re showing them that writing is not only possible for them, but that research has answers for students like them.
You will help students transform from avoiders to writers!Through the Handwriting Struggle & Intervention educator class, you will:
- Gain an understanding of the research behind handwriting difficulties and indicators
- Learn therapeutic approaches to help students with handwriting struggles and weaknesses, including dysgraphia and other expressive language difficulties
- Develop an effective, scaffolded teaching method for handwriting instruction
- Implement instructional strategies that support all modes of writing – print, cursive, and keyboard
- Understand the scope of instruction and when to include each mode of writing
- Support your students’ developing letter formation, handwriting flow, writing fluency, legibility, and overall production
Your students will:
- Solidify sound-to-letter connections, the primary underlying cause of handwriting weakness
- Improve writing flow, fluency, and automaticity
- Strive to become hybrid writers who can toggle between all three writing formats
- Grow their capacity to express themselves successfully in writing
Handwriting is a foundational skill that is connected to all areas of language arts, so children who experience a handwriting weakness likely deal with difficulties in other reading and writing skills. Writing by hand is not just a necessary life skill; research reveals that writing by hand improves executive functioning skills, note taking, analysis, and memory.
Gain the understanding you need to put these complex pieces together, so you can provide your students with an effective plan for writing — and life long success!
All Rooted in Language products incorporate research-based methods to support students with dyslexia, dysgraphia, developmental language disorders, and other literacy-based struggles.
