5 keys to good handwriting
Golden Keys
- Remove floaters and sinkers (keep letters on the baseline, don’t let them float up or sink below the baseline)
- Even up the top (have letters finish at the same height)
- Keep spacing consistent, letter space (space between letters and words), word spacing (space between words in a sentence) and sentence spacing (space at the beginning and end of a line)
Other points
- Slow down, writing quick makes things elligible
- Look for common letter errors
- Get good at high use letters: e, t, a, o, i, n, s, h, r
- Be consisternt on size and slant of letters
- Make sure capital letters sit on the baseline
- Get good at writing your name
