How would you suggest that we help our children ranging in age from kindergarten to middle school to improve their handwriting skills? - For Legibility
Answer: Legibility really counts on all the work your children do. Here are some suggestions for different school levels:
Preschool: Show your young children how writing is used to communicate with others. Let them see you write notes, and then read the notes to them. Give the children a good supply of paper and a wide variety of writing tools -- from crayons to marking pens -- so they can "write" notes to you.
Kindergarten: Help your children have fun as they review the letters that they know. They can use paint brushes and water to write these letters on the sidewalk and trace them in sand, dry jello or salt. If they are interested, teach them how to write their first names. It is helpful if children can do this before they enter school.
Elementary and Middle School: Twenty-five percent of all math errors can be traced back to sloppy handwriting. Have your children make up complex addition and multiplication problems for others to solve. They will need to write them neatly. To check the answers, they can use a calculator.