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Handwriting
Handwriting is critical part of how we express our ideas and thoughts in writing, and is a combination of cognitive, perceptual and motor functions. While adults may not heavily rely on handwriting in their daily life, it is an essential skill for children to master as it is strongly related to other domains of literacy including the development of reading.
These resources focus on the physical act of handwriting to help children develop motor automaticity in their handwriting, starting with the key concepts of mastering correct pencil grip, learning prewriting patterns, learning correct letter formations and then mastering legibility.
Learning how to form letters correctly is essential for writing success and children learning incorrect letter formations can be detrimental to their long term writing outcomes. The Peggy Lego program is a great place to start this journey to handwriting automaticity.
Web Links and Videos
Lil' Peeps YouTube channel has lots of little videos to help explain
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Development of handwriting
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What is Peggy Lego
The videos are great to your child understand the CAT writing strategy to help with writing neatness
Peggy Lego Prewriting
Peggy Lego is a systematic way to teaching prewriting patterns, which form the basis of all letters of the alphabet. Peggy Lego breaks down letters into seven pencil movements and then supports students to learn correct letter formation with these patterns.