TARA's reflection for Graves' Chapters 15-17

I wanted to write my reflection on Graves' chapter 17 on how to keep handwriting in perspective. this chapter tells us i guess how to write correctly. this chapter goes over 5 phases of development for the child to be good in writing. reading these phases and this whole chapter in general made me think of a couple of kids in my class at kapalama.

i have this boy who doesnt hold his pencil correctly. he has four of his fingers on the pencil with his thumb on the underside. because of the way he holds his pencil, his handwriting is not so nice and it is not really legible. my teacher has told him he needs to correct the way he holds his pencil but its kinda hard because that is the way he learned. she gave him a pencil grip, the one where it has grooves so you know where to put your fingers but he doesnt like to use it. she put pencil grips on all his pencils but he takes them off. i see now these days he has learned to sort of hold his pencil correctly and he shows me so that i dont put the pencil grip back on but he still needs some help. he is willing to learn and im glad. there is another boy in my class who presses really hard when he writes. he writes really slow because of it so we try and make him press a little lighter when he writes. but again, it is a learning process and it will take time.