Hello, dear readers! Electronic technologies leave fewer opportunities to practice and hone beautiful handwriting, few choose an epistolary genre for correspondence, and most of the documents can only be signed, because they were initially typed on a computer.

Why do we need a good handwriting?

Graceful and accurate handwriting must be honed, because there are still situations in which it is necessary to write only by hand, and if the words are illegible - you, firstly, may not be understood, and secondly - you will irritate the reader. After all, it is possible to determine the character of a person from it. There is even a science - graphology, which just does it.

In general, if you want to cause admiration and respect of others, especially if you are a business, an expensive elegant costume will be small. And if you write, "like a chicken paw," do not despair, putting a certain amount of effort, you can achieve the necessary results.

Rules and preparation

To learn calligraphy, you must follow the rules below:

1.How to hold the handle

1. The handle should be held gently, without straining your fingers, otherwise the lines will not be even. red spot If there is a red spot on the inside of the middle finger, then you are overdoing it.
2. There are several ways to properly hold the handle:

• The thumb and forefinger, with what, it should rely on the middle.
• Or all three, only by the tips themselves. In this version, the point of support will be the index finger.

2. Planting and warming up

• Make gymnastics. First, with each hand in the air, bring out the entire alphabet, then smash the brushes and each finger separately, squeeze strongly and sharply to open fists. Let this process take 5 minutes, but in the future there will not be any tension in the hands, which will positively affect the quality of the work. If you feel that the sensations become unpleasant, take a break and repeat the gymnastics.
• Remember, the school constantly made comments to those who stooped, sitting at the desk? And not in vain because, in addition to the fact that it is harmful to health, so even the back and hands quickly get tired, why the calligraphic handwriting will not work. But the elbows should hang a little "from the table, the head is allowed to tilt slightly forward.
• The distance from the sheet should be at least 30 cm, so as not to tire your eyes, and there was no temptation to stoop your back.
• Classes must be held in complete silence so that you can concentrate. And not less than half an hour a day.
• The sheet of paper on the table must be positioned so that its upper left corner is slightly higher than the right, so you can control the slope of the letters, plus everything, will relax the brush.

3. Basic rules

• The pace should not be very fast, but it's also not worth hanging over each letter. Try to smoothly output the curls in one rhythm.
• Make sure that the letters are the same size, as well as the distance between them, blanks. Also, do not forget about punctuation, which should be clear and identical.
• Another point in which you usually make the mistake of "withdrawing" is not only your fingers, but also involve the whole hand in the process, then the lines will be smooth.

Algorithm of actions

1. First of all, you should learn how to draw straight vertical lines, then with a slight inclination. Yes, not only the child, but also the adult, this activity can cause boredom and reluctance, but it is important.
2. Now draw hooks and waves. This will help in the future to attach beauty and grace to their work. Experiment with the width of the stroke, start with a thin, gradually compacting it to harmoniously finish thick.
3. Go to the new curls and forms of curved lines.
4. It's time to start writing letters. Begin with one, for example, the very first in the alphabet, and do not go on to the next one until you learn to perfect it almost perfectly.
5. After mastering each of them, try to display connections, starting to add words, or even sentences.
6. Do not forget also that you will need to practice how to write numbers and symbols, for example, the badge "doggie" or dollar.
7. Now, after perfecting the skills of calligraphy, we can "refresh" or come up with a completely new signature. On the Internet, you can find a lot of elegant examples, sometimes like a work of art.
8. When you feel satisfaction from the results, do not relax, now learn to work just as beautifully, but quickly. First, notice the time during which the sentence is displayed, drop a few seconds and try to accelerate, to meet it. Then complicate the task, competing with yourself.

• Spread a lot of different pens in front of you, and each output the same symbol or letter. This trick will help you determine which one of them you are the best at leaving smooth and accurate lines, in order to continue to choose it in the future. Experts usually recommend gel, but everyone has their own preferences.
• Acquire also manuals for writing for children, because the instructions and rules are common, the same for everyone.
• Connect close people to this process, in fact, besides the fact that the general idea, in your case - how to make the handwriting elegant and neat - brings together, so you can also help each other by dictating the text or organizing competitions, who will make fewer mistakes, faster will finish and, of course, beautifully decorate, clearly and clearly.
• Put a special spilled matrix under the sheet, and use it until the letters are automatically formed, without sliding down or up.
• Very gracefully look obliquely to the right, about 45 degrees. But you can practice to invent your own personal, beautiful writing style.
• Find templates on the Internet, view existing ones in Word, select interesting text and rewrite in different styles, then selecting one for improvement.
• If you read the article about, then you know how important it is to develop both halves of the brain simultaneously. And an excellent, effective method is to draw with both hands simultaneously, only different symbols and figures, or the ability to write each of them. In this case, in addition to universality, you can improve your functionality, advance in development, and become a more harmonious person. If you are right-handed, then you have to adapt to the new method, because left-handers do not see the result of their work, as the brush covers it in the process of writing.

Conclusion

The material was prepared by Zhuravina Alina.

School notebooks could tell a lot ... Then a tear fell, because it was more to suffer, ideally drawing out the letters of strength was not. Here they drew-corrected the hated "E", because it is impossible to write "Z" in a whirlwind, these loops, hooks ... Who needs this?

The teacher does not save on red ink, and the parents of first-graders take the head and drink valerian ... Is it necessary to "mock" at all the children and make them display perfectly round letters that are inclined to the right along oblique rulers?

What they say ...

"... I believe that in modern life the calligraphy skill goes to the hobby area. Children print huge essays on the computer, and it's not their laziness, but the school's requirements, 99% of the papers are asked to be filled with block letters ... "

"The generation of my children does not use italics at all. Read mostly books on the computer, the Internet ... Managers send them notes one- mail address…»

"Sometimes it seems to me that people have forgotten how to write, they just type. They tap on the keyboard, poke their fingers in the phone screen ... And it's not fashionable to write by hand. No one writes letters to anyone on paper. What for? SentSMS- and order. The children's handwriting has become awful and incomprehensible, they even forget how a letter is written. I sympathize with the teachers who try to make out these scribbles at night ... "

So, the modern world dictates its conditions. The lessons of calligraphy have vanished into oblivion, forgotten inkpots and goose feathers have been forgotten. So maybe you should not "bother" about handwriting at all?

Where do problems with handwriting come from?

Most children come to the first class, not being able to write, this skill is formed much later than the skills of reading and counting. As practice shows, the letter is the most difficult kind of work for first-graders. Studies have shown that in the lesson of writing, a small schoolboy experiences loads like an astronaut at the moment of launch!

Before writing anything, the child must hear (!) In the word individual phonemes, imagine how they will look on a sheet of paper each individually and in a whole word ...

While the child's head does not form an image of the letter (ie, exactly how he will write it), he can not perform a specific movement (to hold an inclined line, for example). Those. in the process of learning the letter is trained first of all not by the hand, but by the brain!

Behind good handwriting   there are a number of factors. First of all, this is a fine motor skills and an understanding of the structure of letters. In many children and even adults, fine motor skills are not developed well enough, and there is practically no conscious understanding of the structure of letters. Hence, there are problems with the handwriting: the letters are uneven, the connections are not the same or completely absent, the inclination "dances".

What threatens the child with bad handwriting?

At first, bad handwriting does not give an opportunity to read the written (both to the "author" of the text, and to extraneous "readers" of scrawls). This can lead to a low writing speed and bad grades.

"We had a teacher of a foreign language at school. She was very serious about handwriting and could tear a notebook, if there was unreadable. She said that people who write like a chicken with their paw are insensitive egoists who do not care about others ... "

Adults, of course, do not frighten the bad marks (and even frighten them with children, especially considering that there are no marks until grade 3), but a good read handwriting - has not spoiled anybody's life yet.

Do not scold, but train!

Many parents, seeing the "stump" of their grief-first-grader, get angry, start to tear notebooks in a fit of anger, and sometimes to beat (!) The child in the hands ... This is fundamentally wrong behavior! Negative emotions can only worsen the situation: scrawl will become even more ugly, and the child will hate learning by writing.

Try as an experiment to write something with your left hand (if you're right handed). Handsomely? Not very different from the first-grader's handwriting, right? And the reason is banal ... The skill is not formed, the habit of writing with this hand is not developed! Why then blame? We must train!

To develop beautiful handwriting will help tasks that develop fine motor skills and visual-motor coordination:

• Draw a path between two twisting lines with a pencil, without touching them.
• Draw the pattern along the dash, next to the contour line (on the inside or on the outside).
• Hatching.
• Color the picture with small elements.
• Finish the symmetrical half of the unfinished image.
• Draw on the cells under the dictation (one cell to the right, two down, etc.).

The development of fine motor skills is facilitated by engaging in modeling, beading, cutting with scissors along the contour, knitting, embroidery, assembly of the designer from small parts (such as "Lego"), puzzle folding, assembling puzzles, mosaics.

Boys are more likely to have problems with handwriting, they are a priori less careful and diligent. Therefore, do not ignore the purely "female" types of needlework. Help and traditional "male" activities: nailing, cutting, burning.

Sometimes difficulties with writing are associated with insufficient development of the child's coordination of movements in principle. In this case, it is possible to recommend mobile games (for example, with a ball), dancing, gymnastics.

In some cases (rarely), a pediatric neurologist may be needed.

If the child is left-handed, does he have a "chance" to develop a beautiful handwriting?

Of course! If the child has normal coordination of movements and the motor skills of the leading hand are sufficiently developed, there will be no problems with handwriting. Gone are the days when left-handed people were trained to write with their right hands!

A competent elementary school teacher knows how to work with such children:   which side of the desk to set, how to help correctly position the notebook, so that the slope was in the right direction, etc. Now they issue special instructions for left-handed people.

And in the end I will tell…

I'll give an example ... Mom, who moved to the States for permanent residence, says:

... We arrived here when my daughter finished second grade and was due to move to the third. She had a beautiful beautiful inclined handwriting. The teacher was shocked, because here only from the second half of the third grade children are shown how capital letters are written. And many in general until the end of the school write in block letters, with a slant to the left or even exactly ... Italic, and even in the States, it becomes an unnecessary skill. The vast majority of American high school students do not speak in italics at all.

If, despite all efforts (yours and the child), you can not develop a beautiful handwriting - breathe out ... Let the child write correctly and legibly, and the beauty ... - the taste and color, as they say ...

A child in the first class writes like a chicken paw? This is not the worst thing in life, calm down ... In general, many "smart and famous" handwriting was not so hot ... Is it worth it to harass a first-grader? Experts argue that the final formation of handwriting, like the entire body, ends by 18-25 years. Maybe outgrowth?

Dear readers! Does your child have a beautiful handwriting? How did you teach the child to write? Looking forward to your comments!

Unfortunately, many people start to think about the beauty of their handwriting when the educational institutions have long behind them. For a long time the lessons of calligraphy in schools have ended, students are trying to write beautifully only explanatory in the dean's office. There is an opinion that the handwriting can not be corrected for an adult - they say, their hands are forever accustomed to bring out scribbles in high school, and handwriting is an inherent skill. But even "doctor's writing" can always be made beautiful and understandable, there would be a desire.

Instruction:

1. Prepare the workstation. To develop a beautiful handwriting, you will have to train for several hours a day, so take care of the convenience beforehand, and not at the moment when the back and eyes get sore. The beauty of the written, in the first place, depends on the correct position of the body. Therefore, choose a chair on which you will be comfortable sitting, the neck will not strain. The back of the chair should be rigid. Remember that both feet should stand firmly on the floor, so pick up a chair with the ability to adjust the height of the seat. Lighting is also very important. It is desirable that the table is at the window, and the light should fall from the opposite side of the writing hand.

2. Purchase consumables. You need a ballpoint pen (regular, blue, transparent, which is recommended to first-timers). Later, when you start to succeed beautiful letters, it is better to go from the ballpoint pen to the pen, take care of its purchase in advance. Also, you will need notebooks in a slanting ruler to disaccord from the scribbles and produce a slope, and later you will need a lot of unbroken A4 sheets.

3. Download some calligraphic font and install it into the system. The Primo font is very suitable for these purposes. Open any text or image editor and type your favorite poem in the font. Fit the font size, intervals and other parameters to make the lines look like handwritten, and print the result. Put a blank sheet on top of the sheet with the printed verse and carefully trace the words. After every hour of such training try to write yourself, without substrates.

4. When the handwriting starts more or less looming, sit down to rewrite your favorite story. Having written out completely a pair of notebooks in a slanting ruler, while observing the slope, proceed to the development of handwriting on an absolutely clean sheet. By this time, you can already put down the ballpoint pen and take up the pen. If you spend enough time each day to train your handwriting, then in one or two weeks your letters will not be recognized.