WORLD OF LEARNING: HANDWRITING REINFORCES LITERACY

"How Handwriting Trains the Brain" Wall Street Journal 10/5/10

The connection between reading and writing appears self-evident to me, and is something I think is really important. Of course my evidence is anecdotal, but the kids I see with reading issues invariably have difficulty with handwriting as well. A year ago, I saw Virginia Berninger, who is cited in this WSJ article, and her colleague Beverly Wolf, and read their Teaching Students With Dyslexia and Dysgraphia, which mentions recent studies showing some correspondence, and this article does, too.