Carla McNeil from Learning Matters has shared a wonderful video to help support teaching handwriting at home. She says, "Teaching our children to correctly form their letters both supports their sound/symbol to letter correspondences and also enables them to write freely and with relative speed. This video highlights the importance of teaching handwriting as well as showing you ways to do this to build memory for movement and memory for sound to symbol associations."

Watch the video here

Some of the key messages to help scaffold this process for your children are:

• support your child to have the correct pincer grip
• start all letters from the top
• start with letter formation - use the letter formation guide to help
• progress to introducing the sound of the letter as you write it 
• then write words that start with that letter 
• finally move to sentence level with the sounds that you are practising

Please feel free to talk to your child's teacher if you have any questions or would like some extra support around this.