legible writing Archives • Doing What Matters with Janice Campbell https://doingwhatmatters.com/tag/legible-writing/ Cultivating creativity, wisdom, and virtue in education, entrepreneurship, and soul care. Fri, 29 Apr 2022 18:45:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/doingwhatmatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/house-tree-512od.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 legible writing Archives • Doing What Matters with Janice Campbell https://doingwhatmatters.com/tag/legible-writing/ 32 32 89931359 How to Hold a Pen or Pencil https://doingwhatmatters.com/how-to-hold-a-pen-or-pencil/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/how-to-hold-a-pen-or-pencil/#comments Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:03:00 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=650 Writing fatigue and writers cramp are the inevitable result of holding the pen too tightly or in an awkward grip, and often students don't even realize why writing is so hard. The physical act of penmanship is such a necessary part of school, it just seems wise to make it as painless as possible. Here's help.

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/how-to-hold-a-pen-or-pencil/feed/ 8 1854 Charlotte Mason on Copywork https://doingwhatmatters.com/charlotte-mason-on-copywork/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/charlotte-mason-on-copywork/#comments Thu, 07 Jul 2011 19:08:38 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=640 Charlotte Mason recommended copywork, which she called "transcription," as an early step in teaching language arts. In Home Education, she wrote about the value of copywork, as well as what and how to copy. I have provided her instructions and added a few notes of my own.

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