A few days ago
Anonymous

Lowe Elementary Teachers: Please Answer!!!?

If you teach kindergarten or first grade, how do you read your students handwriting?? Whenever I look at my brothers handwriting who is in first grade…I can’t read it. I want to be a k or 1st grade teacher but how do you read their handwriting?? thanks!

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A few days ago
Elizabeth S

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Ask him to read it to you & he won’t know the difference if you pretend to like him reading it. If it stays illegible in the next year or two I would suggest some handwriting workbooks, etc.
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A few days ago
Anonymous
Once you become a teacher, you’ll be a pro at reading young students’ handwriting. You’ll be able to tell what letters they have written when they are illegible to everyone else. You’ll be able to understand what they wrote when everyone else thinks it’s jibberish. And you will even be able to identify which student wrote it, even if their name is not on the paper.

It’s like a teacher super-power.

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A few days ago
Sam M
Just remember the students are just learning the hand and eye coordination need to form letters. They’re just learning!!! Be patient!!! Don’t worry, it should improve. I teach third grade and one of my students never had a good academic background in pre-school and his writing at 8 years old still looked like chicken scratch.
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A few days ago
Brina
You need to do your best. If it is really bad then you ask them to read it to you and help them rewrite it. Help them with their letters. Show them how to write it then have them trace it. Then if it is still bad you send them home with extra homework and a letter to the parents saying their child needs help with this.
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