{"id":49,"date":"2014-04-16T15:08:15","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T19:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bruscoj\/?p=49"},"modified":"2014-04-16T15:08:15","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T19:08:15","slug":"is-handwriting-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bruscoj\/2014\/04\/16\/is-handwriting-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Handwriting Important?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ABSOLUTELY!<\/strong> \u00a0Teachers depend on written work to measure how well a child is learning.<\/p>\n<p>*Learning to correctly write the manuscript alphabet enhances letter recognition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Letter recognition leads to comprehension:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><strong>1.<\/strong> \u00a0The child focuses on the order of the letters in words and which letters are commonly associated with each other. \u00a0Good readers have this skill; poor readers do not.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> \u00a0The child is able to learn common spelling patterns and develop the ability to translate spelling into meaning automatically.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3<\/strong>. \u00a0 The child is able to break words into syllables more easily which makes it possible to read longer words.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong> \u00a0The child is free to focus on extracting meaning from print because the recognition of words is automatic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5.<\/strong> \u00a0The ability to recognize letters automatically is essential to reading development.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6.<\/strong> \u00a0Learning to form and write letters correctly is a natural way to reinforce letter recogntion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7.<\/strong> \u00a0Being able to reproduce letters automatically not only benefits written expression because it frees the student to focus on words, sentences and ideas, but it benefits reading as well.<\/p>\n<p>Not only that, students who write legibly receive the highest scores even on state proficiency tests scored by trained scorers AND AND AND learning to write provides a <em><strong>motivation to read!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABSOLUTELY! \u00a0Teachers depend on written work to measure how well a child is learning. *Learning to correctly write the manuscript alphabet enhances letter recognition. *Letter recognition leads to comprehension: 1. \u00a0The child focuses on the order of the letters in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":738,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bruscoj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bruscoj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bruscoj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bruscoj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/738"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bruscoj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bruscoj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bruscoj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bruscoj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bruscoj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}