Another handwriting fault to improve is to teach children to choose to make round letters more round.

Another idea is to use the raised lines handwriting paper sold at Walmart or create your own by embossing the back sides of the paper (use a ruler to draw a deep line with a ball point pen on paper that is set on a soft surface as with a pile of paper, a notebook, or a blotter).

Put a 3x5 card under the line for all but descenders like g, j, p, y, etc.

Choose one fault to improve as with the base line idea.

The stronger their hands are the more smooth their writing will be. Simple practice is easy and can be fun once the children realize that it is easy.

Then practice printing is what can help them improve. There are differences like dexterity and the desire to succeed that set children at different levels even at the same ages, yet ruled lines set the standard. Ruled worksheets are a Godsend for handwriting practice! Or go to more pages on our site in the next section.īuy Garden of Verses Manuscript Handwriting and Cursive Writing Worksheets, 250 pages.

Start with pencil for kinesthetic advantage.Ruled handwriting sheets are important.Learn more tricks as you view this page and see live samples in sections 3 and 4 below: This alone helps his writing look nice and neat. To this day his handwriting is the best at staying on the base line. When he started learning to write, his baseline was excellent. I know a child who, as a toddler, 'wrote' in the bottom space below the bottom line on my whiteboard while I was helping other children learn to write.Įffectively his 'bottom line' was the frame of the white board. A page looks a world better if their handwriting simply obeys the ruled lines. Oh! If kids would only obey even the bottom line. It is so handy when your students need practice forming the letters well and obeying the top, middle and bottom lines to have the lines printed on the paper.

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