NEW Move Write Handwriting Programme, by Dr. Sinead McCauley Lambe

Research suggests that there are a variety of ways to group letters in relation to the teaching of handwriting. The approach taken in Move Write Handwriting follows on from the Move Write – A Whole Body Approach to Handwriting programme. It is a child-led, sensory-rich developmental approach that can be used in the whole class or in a one-to-one setting with individual learners.

Learners are invited to look carefully at all the letters on the page and to examine the distinguishing features of each letter. This activity is building on the visual discrimination skills developmed in the Move Write – A Whole Body Approach to Handwriting Programme. In this way, the children themselves will develop their own ideas about the letter characteristics and which letters should be grouped together, which will make them more likely to be able to remember how to form the letters correctly. This method is based on Marie Clay’s (1991) work on teaching of letter formations.