DD10 is in Year 6. She's not particularly academic and struggles to focus at home sometimes, but she's well behaved at school and tries hard so that's fine. However I'm a bit worried about her handwriting. She tends to scrawl and it can be difficult to read. She can write neatly, but it takes her much longer. Her spelling isn't great either and I'm concerned that, once she's at secondary school, the combination of poor spelling and unclear handwriting will make her work very difficult both for her to study from when she's revising, and for her teachers to mark her homework.
She does lots of building lego, writing and drawing for fun, so plenty of opportunities to develop fine motor skills. I was wondering if targeted practice using a handwriting book would be helpful. Can anybody recommend something suitable for this age group please? Or does it sound more like dyspraxia?
TIA.
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Handwriting help for ten-year-old
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theconstantinoplegardener · 19/11/2018 12:51
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