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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Penmanship"”.
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Handwriting & Metacognition: The Relationship Between Penmanship and Self-Reflection
<p>The majority of school-based occupational therapy (OT) referrals are for handwriting. In fact, fine motor and handwriting concerns affecting educational performance make up 80-85% of OT referrals in schools. Occupational therapists use an abundance of interventions for remediating handwriting …
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A study of the degree of articulation in the language arts curricula of San Joaquin County schools
… language (or English), literature, spelling, and penmanship (or handwritings)?
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The Use of Sensory Integrative Tool in a Third Grade Classroom and How it Affects Student Posture
… integrative tool not only improved posture, but penmanship as well.</p>
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The Relationship Between Somatosensory Processing and Handwriting Proficiency
… systems. One aspect of sensory processing for penmanship is somatosensation. The contribution of somatosensory processing to handwriting proficiency has not been adequately researched. Therefore, this study evaluated the contribution of somatosensory processing to handwriting proficiency. …
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A comparative study, as viewed by the employer and the employee, of the in-service business training needs of office workers in Waynesboro, Virginia
… English, human relations, usage of forms, penmanship, personality development, and grooming. 4. A majority of the participants of the survey would prefer that training programs covering the above areas be held in the schools in the evenings.
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Developing a Comprehensive Handwriting Curriculum Utilizing the Handwriting Without Tears™ Approach for Typically Developing Elementary School Aged Children
<p>It is estimated that 27% of school-aged children in the United States have handwriting difficulties (McHale & Cermak, 1992). According to Hammerschmidt and Sudsawad (2004), illegible handwriting is the most common reason for referral to occupational therapy services; 49.2% of total referrals. …
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The Relationship of Instruments’ Size and Shape to Handwriting Achievement
This experiment is concerned with the design of handwriting instruments. It is the purpose of this experiment to determine if the Zaner-Bloser finger-fitting instruments have any advantages as to speed and quality of handwriting over the conventional instruments as regularly used at sixth grade …
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A Survey and Study of Handwriting in the Intermediate Grades in Selected Schools in the State of Washington
It is the purpose of this study (1) to survey the general nature of current practices in handwriting of the schools within the state of Washington which are classed as a group two and three according to the Washington Education Association’s Thirty-Fourth annual Teachers’ Salary Study; and (2) to …
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The Effects of Restricting the Response Space and Self-evaluation on Letter Quality in Beginning and Experienced Handwriters.
This study analyzed the effects of restricting the response space and selfevaluation on students' handwriting quality in two beginning handwriters and two experienced handwriters. Students executed letters with and without using a transparent overlay, in a multiple-baseline-across-letters design. …
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Basic Cursive Writing: Development of a Self-Instructional Program
The great majority of self-instructional programs which have been reported are concerned with the learning of cognitive material and/or perceptual skills. This study is concerned with the development and evaluation of a program teaching motor skills relevant to the learning of cursive writing. The …
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The effectiveness of a multisensory writing program in improving cursive writing ability in children with sensorimotor difficulties
It is estimated that five to ten percent of children experience sensory motor difficulties that result in various learnlng disabilitiies , among them. inabllity to output Information on paper in the appropriate manner (Ayres ,1985). The relationship between sensorimotorabillty and handwriting is …
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A Comparative Study of Handwriting Practices in the Intermediate Grades
The purpose of the study was to show that teachers in the elementary middle grades were providing functional practices in their handwriting instruction as set forth in the literature published since 1960.
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Inservice videos in guided reading, writers' workshop and working with words
<p>This project was developed to meet the needs of teachers who have been trained in the components of balanced literacy: reading aloud, shared reading, guided writing, writers' workshop and working with words.</p>
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Manuscript Writing Present Practices and Extension Trends Within Schools of the State of Washington
In assuming this study, the author purported to ascertain both the potential and the limitations of manuscript-style hand-writing. A more important goal was to probe the existing fallacies and beliefs that surround one of the most controversial areas in the field of language arts, manuscript-style …
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