Writing & Handwriting - Draw Your World - Supplementary Language Arts for Elementary

Writing & Handwriting

Add drawing instruction to your language arts program to inspire and motivate elementary grade children. A child's drawing provides the perfect writing prompt and framework for a story, while drawing before practicing handwriting

helps children work more carefully and with more purpose. Drawing can also encourage the quiet child to speak or give the talkative child a fomat to focus their discussion. Elementary language arts are strengthened with drawing instruction and it is a fun way to supplement the curriculum for both the teacher and the student.

Handwriting is more that just teaching children to write pretty. A child who can write fluidly and neatly can also get their ideas on paper quickly and can focus on content over letter formation. Children become fluent writers while developing the foundation of good handwriting: sitting correctly and gripping the pencil correctly,

and forming the letters by memory, and developing a flow to writing by keeping the pencil and the hand loose and comfortable. All of this is developed through practice, and drawing can motivate a child to practice carefully.

". . . (the children) take great care in their writing, even though they have to transpose the writing into the D'Nealian format. In their old handwriting sessions, the writing would start neat and quickly deteriorate by the end of the page, but using this program, the writing is beautiful from beginning to end. It is almost as if they want their writing to look nice because they are so proud of their drawings."
--Book Lover, review of Draw Write Now

Handwriting Sample from Draw Your World

An updated version of this lesson is included in
Draw Write Now, Book 3.
The student paper shown here is from Marie Hablitzel's
2nd grade class, (1979). See more of her students' work.

"I teach second grade and use Draw Write Now books for handwriting practice. My students beg me to do handwriting every day. I never thought I'd hear those words! Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful program with teachers!" -- Jennifer, Second Grade Teacher