Using Handwriting Practice Sheets To Improve Penmanship

To me, The purpose of handwriting worksheets is to teach people to take pride in their own writing. In school, you address every aspect of writing. Composition, spelling, grammar, and punctuation must all be flawless. By neglecting handwriting practice sheets and other methods of training cursive writing, we do our students a disservice.

I am not unfamiliar with the other side of the argument. When I was a kid, I used to absolutely despise having to do handwriting practice sheets. I had a lot of trouble with my handwriting sheets, and my penmanship was absolutely atrocious. I simply did not want to take the time to develop what I saw as a useless skill. After all, my handwriting was good enough for me to read and for my teacher to read, so what was the problem.

Than one day, my parents took me to an art exhibit of calligraphy. I had never seen calligraphy handwriting before, and I was absolutely awestruck by how beautiful it was. The fact that people could gain that level of skill in making beautiful and original letter art struck me with awe. For the first time, I understood what those handwriting practice sheets had been leading up to. I understood that, after practicing handwriting, I could learn to make my compositions into an art form. After that, I never thought about practicing handwriting sheets again.

Nowadays, I struggle with the same issues with my own child. Recently, he got a failing grade on some of his handwriting practice sheets. His teacher believed that he was not applying himself, and looking at his handwriting work I can see why. Next weekend, I am going to take him to a calligraphy exhibit. I hope that it will have the same effect on him that it had on me. I know that you can grow up and be a model citizen with lousy handwriting. As a matter of fact, some of the greatest thinkers of all time had atrocious penmanship.