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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has anyone successfully helped their 4th grader improve their handwriting?  My 4th grade (boy, if it matters) has always had hard to read handwriting.  He just doesn't care enough to make it look neat and rushes to be done so he can read (which is what he is allowed to do at school when he's completed his work).  Through last year when I would ask his teachers they would all tell me to be patient, his muscles would develop, it would improve.  This fall his 4th grade teacher told me it would have been resolved but for COVID, and suggested I wait until the summer and have him do handwriting sheets.  [/quote]
My 4th grader’s (boy) handwriting is atrocious. We had him in OT, went through 3 Handwriting Without Tears workbooks and he wrote on special notepaper for entire years in school. It just did. not. work. Eventually, his teacher and the OT just said “this is just how he’s going to write”, and sort of…moved on.

If it’s any consolation, my kid is in a gifted program and consistently scores super high on reading and maths, turns in all of his homework, gets excellent grades and is very respectful to his teachers. He just does not write neatly at all.[/quote]

It's going to hurt him as he gets into harder math and needs to be able to read his own notes. 
For language and social studies he might get away with typing. [/quote]

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