Write on the Beat: Multisensory Cursive Handwriting

Students in this course will learn one family of letters in each session. They may practice in a subsequent session but all letters within each family are practiced to automaticity at the large motor movement level. Only after students can write the family fluently, do they begin to reduce the size and increase the speed.

As students learn each subsequent family, they begin to write words with ONLY the letter forms they have learned.

After learning all lower case letters, students begin to incorporate the cursive handwriting to practice spelling patterns and other language skills.

Student progress can be rapid and self fulfilling.

Course Curriculum

Welcome to the Multisensory Approach to Handwriting

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This approach was originally pioneered for middle school students

Over the years this course content has been used in both public and private schools, in individual tutoring and featured on the PBS News Hour in a segment on Making the grade.

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Write on the Beat: A program for remediating handwriting difficulties

A rapid handwriting remedial program developed for older students

This approach to remediating handwriting for older students was developed to assist middle and high school students in developing proficiency for note taking, signing documents, filling out forms and written language tasks. It was developed for students in upper elementary school, middle school and high school but it has also been adapted for student in third grade.

It uses a condensed approach linking letters with similar approach strokes into families. Each of the four letter families is practiced using large motor muscles and dry erase markers or finger paint to develop automaticity with the directionality of letter forms. No writing involving fine motor skills is required until the student can fluently write complete phrases and sentences. As the size decreases the speed and automaticity develop incrementally through repeated practice.

There are four families of letter forms for the lower case alphabet. Each is taught separately. Incrementally new families of letters are introduced and practice as words using all learned families are used. Fluency and speed developsincrementally. Once the student can write legibly using the lower case alphabet, the upper case alphabet is taught, again in letter families with similar initial strokes.

This approach has been successfully used in schools and learning centers to improve student written work and build confidence.

The First Letter Family with its singular approach stroke.

Students use chants to develop automaticity with each family

Two letters from the second family.

Small variations in the chants allow students to control impulsivity and speed .

From the beginning, students write words and phrases to develop fluency.

Students use the handwriting to also work on learned words, spelling and sentence structure.

Write on the Beat

A Multisensory, Rhythmic Approach to Handwriting Remediation/ Intervention

Designed for Adolescents, It Can Be Used With Almost Any Age Student