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Mary Koska shows how to help kids whose handwriting bounces all over the page. Try darkening the baseline, using raised-line paper, or switching to graph paper to keep letters in place.
Mary Koska shows how to help kids whose handwriting bounces all over the page. Try darkening the baseline, using raised-line paper, or switching to graph paper to keep letters in place.
Aloha. Mary Koska here with Ohana Occupational Therapy. And we are in our how to Improve Handwriting course. This lesson is all about when they're struggling with writing on the line. I call them kind of roller coaster writing. It pops up off the line. Or popcorn writing, where it pops up and down and it's kind of all over the place. So my favorite strategies to help with this are, are just to take a highlighter and highlight the line. So regular writing paper, that line is really tiny, like barely there. So I like to make that line a little bit thicker or a little bit brighter. If you make your own paper on the computer, you can make it just highlight it, like have a line there and you can make it a thicker line and you can highlight it just so it's an easier target for them to hit. So. So it's just more clear. You can also get raised line paper commercially, and I'll put a link below to some of those products so they actually feel where the line is. You can also make that yourself with glue, which you wouldn't want to do it a lot, but just if you're trying to get the point across. For a few lessons, you could do that. I mentioned, darken the lines. Another thing that's helpful sometimes is graph paper to help position those letters and keep them on the line. And that is it for letters on the line. See you in the next video. Aloha.
