Teaching+handwriting

In the early development of writing children go through different stages in learning to write. Firstly they go through what is known as the sign principle which is were they learn that symbols stand for something. Next they learn that though something is a symbol it doesn't represent a letter and they may experiment with different letters and the way they appear. This stage is followed by the linear stage in which children learn that writing is done from left to right on the page. The final stage in the development of early writing is spaces between words. It is at this point that children learn about were a word starts and were it ends. Many put full stops in the spaces as the concept of leaving a space is difficult.

Writing is something that we all do and it is something that is unique to each person.



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