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Help yourself to better handwriting

Help yourself to better handwriting HELP YOURSELF TO BETTER HANDWRITING byDorothyEmerson, Director of Language Training, Cardigan Mountain School, Canaan, N. H. * This new manual for teaching penmanship to both r ight-hander s and left- handers consists of a series of letters and words presented in both the right- hand and the left-hand slant, with instructions for older pupils who may wish to help themselves, as well as to teachers for use with any age in either the classroom or the remedial situation. Miss Emerson says: "The kinaesthetic implant is herein assumed to be, for many learners, the master-matrix of language symbols. By combining in the drills, the attentive repetition of the letter seen, the letter spoken, the letter heard and the letter FELT, the learner is assured a maximum facility of recall... It facilitates all aspects of language training: speech, comprehension, reading, and spelling, as well as handwriting... The practice exercise immediately lays a foundation for fluency, first by simple warm-up drills moving along the idealpostural writing line, to establish kinaesthetic concepts of fluent execution of continuous manuscript; and second by sharp, swift, kinaesthetic implants of letter-forms, grouped according to basic similarity... Cursive script is chosen to reduce any diffi- culties which might http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Annals of Dyslexia Springer Journals

Help yourself to better handwriting

Emerson, Dorothy
Annals of Dyslexia , Volume 5 (1): 1 – Dec 1, 1955
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Help yourself to better handwriting

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HELP YOURSELF TO BETTER HANDWRITING byDorothyEmerson, Director of Language Training, Cardigan Mountain School, Canaan, N. H. * This new manual for teaching penmanship to both r ight-hander s and left- handers consists of a series of letters and words presented in both the right- hand and the left-hand slant, with instructions for older pupils who may wish to help themselves, as well as to teachers for use with any age in either the classroom or the remedial situation. Miss Emerson says:...
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Springer Journals
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1955 The Orton Society Inc.
ISSN
0736-9387
eISSN
1934-7243
DOI
10.1007/BF02657577
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HELP YOURSELF TO BETTER HANDWRITING byDorothyEmerson, Director of Language Training, Cardigan Mountain School, Canaan, N. H. * This new manual for teaching penmanship to both r ight-hander s and left- handers consists of a series of letters and words presented in both the right- hand and the left-hand slant, with instructions for older pupils who may wish to help themselves, as well as to teachers for use with any age in either the classroom or the remedial situation. Miss Emerson says: "The kinaesthetic implant is herein assumed to be, for many learners, the master-matrix of language symbols. By combining in the drills, the attentive repetition of the letter seen, the letter spoken, the letter heard and the letter FELT, the learner is assured a maximum facility of recall... It facilitates all aspects of language training: speech, comprehension, reading, and spelling, as well as handwriting... The practice exercise immediately lays a foundation for fluency, first by simple warm-up drills moving along the idealpostural writing line, to establish kinaesthetic concepts of fluent execution of continuous manuscript; and second by sharp, swift, kinaesthetic implants of letter-forms, grouped according to basic similarity... Cursive script is chosen to reduce any diffi- culties which might

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Annals of Dyslexia – Springer Journals

Published: Dec 1, 1955

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