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Language Development: Writing
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Language Development: Writing A Motor Skill * Learning to write is primarily a matter of acquiring the motor skill of forming and sequencing letters in a fluent, automatic manner and positioning them clearly on a page. * The Motor Skill is far more than the correct formation of letter shapes, letter sizes, word spaces and other matter layout if a writing style is to be acceptable. * Of the few scientific studies undertaken the question of 'writing posture'- the optimum position of the body for writing has always arisen. The 'writing posture' takes into account factors such as hand position, finger grip, angle of the body towards the paper, height of the writers' chair. * Therefore it is easy to see why children take three years or more to develop a smooth automatic writing technique. A Functional Skill * Researchers have shown there is far more to writing than the automatic exercise of the motor skill. Recent...
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