
TRT Podcast #181: Answers to all your questions about teaching handwriting – with Dr. Shawn Datchuk
Should we teach students to write upper or lowercase letters first? What’s the best routine for practicing handwriting? How much time should students practice handwriting each day? Dr. Shawn Datchuk shares what the research says (and doesn’t say) about these questions and more!
Listen to the episode here
Full episode transcript
Literacy LIFTER (free!)
- Free learning module (start here)
- Literacy LIFTER tool
Resources/articles from Dr. Shawn Datchuk
- Sentence writing lessons on Dr. Datchuk’s blog
- Dr. Datchuk’s list of publications is quite long! Find a list of his published articles here on the University of Iowa website.
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