ED285203 CS210786
Title: Handwriting:
Theory, Research and Practice.
Author(s): Alston, Jean; Taylor, Jane
Pages: 229
Publication Date: 1987
ISBN: 0-89397-287-8
Available from: Document Not Available from EDRS.
Availability: Nichols Publishing Company, P.O. Box 96, New York,
NY 10024 ($32.50).
Language: English
Document Type: Book (010); Information Analysis (070)
Geographic Source: U.S.; New York
Journal Announcement: RIEJAN1988
Target Audience: Practitioners
The result
of five years of collaboration, discussion and applied research,
this book reviews theory and research on handwriting instruction
for ordinary children as well as giving detailed consideration to
the problems encountered by slow learners and children with physical
disabilities. The titles of the chapters (and their authors, if
different from the book authors) are as follows: (1) "The Current
Situation"; (2) "Beginning to Write: The Development of
Grapho-Motor Skills"; (3) "Pencil Grasp and Manipulation"
(Jenny Ziviani); (4) "Graphic Development in Early Years at
School"; (5) "Earlier Developments and Current Models";
(6) "Causes of Poor Handwriting"; (7) "Paper for
Writing: Research and Recommendations" (J. George Pasternicki);
(8) "Left- and Right-Handed Writers"; (9) "Assessment
Scales and Checklists"; (10) "The Sequence and Structure
of Handwriting Skills"; (11) "The Assessment and Teaching
of Handwriting Skills"; (12) "Teaching Handwriting in
the Secondary School" (Elizabeth Whitmarsh); (13) "Curricular
Developments in Australasia"; (14) "Research: Qualitative
and Quantitative Assessment"; (15) "The Physically Handicapped
Child: Special Needs for Handwriting"; and (16) "Handwriting
and School Achievement: A Cross- Cultural Study" (Muriel Tarnopol
and Nusia de Feldman). A concluding chapter briefly reviews the
objectives of the book, acknowledges the contributing authors, and
poses several curricular questions teachers can ask in an effort
improve handwriting instruction practices in their schools. (HTH)
Descriptors: Developmental Stages; Disabilities; Elementary Secondary
Education; Handwriting; Left Handed Writer; Teaching Methods; *Theory
Practice Relationship; Writing Evaluation; *Writing Instruction;
*Writing Research; *Writing Skills
