Handwriting fluency and the quality of primary grade students’ writing

Abstract Until children can produce letters quickly and accurately, it is assumed that handwriting disrupts limits the quality of their text. This investigation largest study to date (2596 girls, 2354 boys) assessing association between fluency writing quality. We tested whether made a statistically unique contribution predicting primary grade students’ on functional task, after variance due attitude towards writing, language background (L1, L2, bilingual), gender, grade, nesting class school were first controlled. Handwriting accounted for significant 7.4% in students. In addition, background, gender each uniquely predicted Finally, increased from one next, girls had faster than boys, differences across grades. An identical pattern results observed Directions future research practices are discussed.