{"id":344821,"date":"2024-11-24T19:00:48","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T19:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/the-role-of-rituals-in-learning-to-write\/"},"modified":"2024-11-24T19:00:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T19:00:48","slug":"the-role-of-rituals-in-learning-to-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/the-role-of-rituals-in-learning-to-write\/","title":{"rendered":"The Role of Rituals in Learning to Write"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rituals help <strong>establish habits and automate routines<\/strong>. At home, they guide children towards independence: setting the table and putting dishes in the sink, taking off shoes before coming in, tidying their room before bed, etc. While they can feel like a constraint and sometimes meet resistance from the child, <strong>these rituals actually help reassure them<\/strong>. In learning to write, they play an equally essential role\u2026<\/p>\n<h2>Rituals in learning to write<\/h2>\n<p>When consulted for handwriting difficulties, or even a suspicion of dysgraphia, <a href=\"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/la-graphotherapie-quesaco\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">graphotherapists<\/a> often find that <strong>the root of the problem is a lack of associated rituals<\/strong>. Children end up without any reference points, even though these should be taught from the very first year of nursery school.<\/p>\n<p>There are <strong>several types of rituals that support the learning of writing<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Preparing the fingers and developing hand muscles;<\/li>\n<li>Automating writing posture;<\/li>\n<li>Building awareness of handwriting itself;<\/li>\n<li>Etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Examples of rituals to set up at school or at home<\/h2>\n<h3>Preparing the fingers for writing<\/h3>\n<p>Many graphotherapists are consulted for handwriting remediation and find that children simply have <strong>difficulty <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/thumb-mobility-essential-for-handwriting\/\"><strong>moving their fingers<\/strong><\/a>. Specialists then use <strong>fine motor exercises<\/strong> such as &#8220;walking&#8221; the fingers forward or backward. These are simple exercises, but when practised daily, they help children make remarkably fast progress.<\/p>\n<h3>The right posture for writing<\/h3>\n<p>At home, it&#8217;s essential to set up rituals around writing posture, using furniture suited to the child&#8217;s size. The <strong>table height<\/strong> should allow a right angle with the elbows close to the body; <strong>the chair<\/strong> should let the child rest their feet flat on the floor or on a footstool. At school, rituals are normally put in place to teach children how to <strong>hold the pencil<\/strong> or <strong>move their arm<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3>Handwriting rituals<\/h3>\n<p>In the first year of primary school, teachers introduce rituals to build up <a href=\"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/pourquoi-ecriture-manuscrite-est-elle-tres-importante\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">writing production<\/a> skills. This can include the <strong>copying ritual<\/strong> across various media (whiteboard, movable letters, notebooks, sand, etc.) or the <strong>transcription ritual<\/strong> (block capitals, print letters and cursive letters). Using word-and-picture cards, it&#8217;s possible to stimulate creativity in <strong>writing production<\/strong>, while also easing the load on memory and checking spelling\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In consultations, graphotherapists often find that handwriting difficulties stem from a lack of automatic habits or rituals that haven&#8217;t been firmly established in the child. <strong>Remediation then involves suitable exercises<\/strong> to help the child regain a correct writing gesture and the enjoyment that comes with it. Even in cases of dysgraphia, rituals remain essential in easing the symptoms of the disorder.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t hesitate to discuss this with <a href=\"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/handwriting-therapy-remote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the professionals on the Ora-Visio platform<\/a> who specialise in DYS disorders!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rituals help establish habits and automate routines. At home, they  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":344822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[331],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-handwriting-therapy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}