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(2o23,苏州模拟)lf your children's New Year wish lists are hard to distinguish,
pity their teachers who have been struggling with confusing schoolwork ever
since schools reopened.
"Younger kids failed to learn letter patterns and formations while older kids
lose speed and clearness without regular practice during the shutdown of
schools,"says Sheilagh Blyth,an occupational therapist(治疗专家)who studies
handwriting.
Of course,it's a symptom of a wider problem.As Amanda Spielman,the head
of Ofsted (Office for Standards in Education),indicated handwriting puts an
added burden on parents-it's long been an aspect of children's school books
that they analyze at home.
"This is a big problem for my almost 10-year-old.says one mother."When
they sent two year's worth of his books back together,the degradation (was
severe and it hasn't recovered."
Another mother worries that her younger son has fallen behind compared
with his older brother."His handwriting is definitely not where I think it should
be,she says.
Blyth warns handwriting needs to be practised regularly and that students
need to practise the letter formation and joined-up writing to write well in
exams."Learning handwriting doesn't just happen as there are increasingly fewer
day-to-day opportunities to write with a pen or pencil.says Gill Budgell,an
educational consultant who wrote Penpals for Handwriting meant for 3-to
11-year-olds.
The Write Dance Programme is an approach to teaching handwriting that is
based on physical movement.Diana Strauss,who runs the programme in the UK
with Nicole Barrons,says,"Whole body movement relaxes the shoulders and the
arms and has a positive effect on physical tasks,which handwriting is."
Diana is seeing more interest from schools in accessing the Write Dance
Programme,which was developed in the 1960s by Ragnhild Oussoren,a Dutch
graphologist(笔迹学家."We've been busy doing live training sessio