[blparent] Penmanship.

[Judy Jones]

Hi All,

I would like to find out what you all do regarding penmanship.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, by the time we started home schooling, our girls were middle school and high school.  They approached me, said public school was “rude,” and asked if I would consider home-schooling.

I had looked into several curricula by that time, so was an easy choice.  So, they had the penmanship thing down, and I did not have to worry about that one.

Thinking back, I may have asked for assistance from a friend, neighbor, or someone in our church.  But that’s the only thing I would have known to do.

I am an optacon user, so I did have chances to view their writing, but did not have the ability to give immediate feedback as one would write.

Before I was married, the public school classes I taught were foreign language, and when grading papers, hired a parttime reader to mark the papers how and where I told them to mark.  So I didn’t have to directly deal with it.

Here is a question maybe good for the blind educators list.  If anyone who is blind has had to teach penmanship, how did you do it.

Thanks for educating an old mom who is just curious.

Judy