Handwriting: how to support students

Last updated: 15/11/2023
Handwriting: how to support students
Key stage
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English
Resource type
Teaching ideas

A teacher-facing resource providing tips on helping secondary students with handwriting difficulties. Deborah Smith, an experienced paedeatric occupational therapist, explains how environmental factors, physical activities and adjustments can make a difference, and provides some simple suggestions including:

  • warm-up activities 
  • how to set the correct desk and chair height
  • stretches for poor pen grip
  • how to improve in-hand manipulation
  • bilateral integration activities
  • the correct shapes of letters for speed and legibility.

Deborah gives the context of the issues underlying handwriting problems in her article 'Handwriting in secondary school'

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