{"id":74,"date":"2015-10-23T15:21:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T19:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/?page_id=74"},"modified":"2016-02-19T12:30:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T17:30:37","slug":"handwriting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/handwriting\/","title":{"rendered":"Handwriting"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1656\/2015\/10\/117_Develop_Writing_Early_Age.pdf\" rel=\"\">Develop Writing at an Early Age<\/a><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0&#8211; There are several things we can do to encourage writing at an early age which goes beyond just &#8220;writing&#8221;.\u00a0 This article touches on ways to introduce writing to our children.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1656\/2015\/10\/231_FunWaystoPractice-1.pdf\" rel=\"\">Fun Ways to Teach Children How to Write the Letters of the Alphabet<\/a><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0&#8211; <span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\">There are many ways to practice writing letters of the alphabet without using paper and pencil.\u00a0 This article lists several fun ways to help a child learn how to write the alphabet.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1656\/2016\/01\/138-Visual-Perceptual-and-Motor-skills.pdf\" rel=\"\">Visual Perceptual and Motor skills<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;<\/strong><\/em> Good handwriting requires\u00a0good visual perceptual and visual motor skills, but what does that entail?\u00a0 The resource below describes what visual motor and visual perceptual skills are and it also gives a developmental sequence of visual motor skills.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1656\/2015\/10\/Super-Duper-Handwriting-Handout.pdf\" rel=\"\">Quick Tips to Improve Handwriting <\/a><\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0 <\/em>This article gives some good quick ideas to help improve handwriting in the classroom but the ideas can also be used at home.\u00a0 It touches on warm-up activities, vertical surfaces and positioning that can all assist when trying to increase handwriting skills.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Develop Writing at an Early Age\u00a0&#8211; There are several things we can do to encourage writing at an early age which goes beyond just &#8220;writing&#8221;.\u00a0 This article touches on ways to introduce writing to our children. &nbsp; Fun Ways to Teach Children How to Write the Letters of the Alphabet\u00a0&#8211; There are many ways to&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/handwriting\/\">&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1565,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-74","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1565"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}