STATEN ISLAND HANDWRITING TUTORING
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Handwriting Tutors Travel to Your Staten Island Home! | Top Handwriting Tutoring in Staten Island | Free Consultation and Meet & Greets With Our Tutors
Handwriting Tutors Travel to Your Staten Island Home! | Top Handwriting Tutoring in Staten Island | Free Consultation and Meet & Greets With Our Staff
We travel to the following Staten Island neighborhoods: Annadale, Arden Heights, Arlington, Arrochar, Bay Terrace, Bloomfield, Brighton Heights, Bulls Head, Castleton Corners, Charleston, Chelsea, Clifton, Concord, Dongan Hills, Egbertville, Elm Park, Eltingville, Emerson Hill, Fort Wadsworth, Graniteville, Grant City, Grasmere, Great Kills, Greenridge, Grymes Hill, Hamilton Park, Heartland Village, Huguenot, Lighthouse Hill, Livingston, Manor Heights, Jefferson, Mariners Harbor, Meiers Corners, Midland Beach, New Brighton, New Dorp, New Springville, Oakwood, Old Place, Old Town, Pleasant Plains, Port Ivory, Port Richmond, Prince’s Bay, Randall Manor, Richmond Valley, Richmondtown, Rosebank, Rossville, Saint George, Sandy Ground, Shore Acres, Silver Lake, South Beach, Stapleton, Stapleton Heights, Sunnyside, Todt Hill, Tompkinsville, Tottenville, Tottenville Beach, Travis, Ward Hill, West New Brighton, Westerleigh, Willowbrook, Woodrow.
Literacy Specialists
The reading and writing specialists we work with travel throughout Staten Island. Reading and writing specialists work on decoding, encoding (spelling), reading comprehension, and writing skills. We also assist children on the autism spectrum.
Literacy Specialists
The reading and writing specialists we work with travel throughout Staten Island. Reading and writing specialists work on decoding, encoding (spelling), reading comprehension, and writing skills. We also assist children on the autism spectrum.
Common Core English Language Arts (ELA) Standards & Worksheets
Common Core English Language Arts (ELA) Standards & Worksheets
Training/Certifications
Training/Certifications
Should you consider the help of a handwriting tutor for your child?
In today’s tech-forward classrooms, digital tools are essential—but handwriting still plays a critical role in literacy development. Staten Island Letters connects families with educational specialists who help students across the Staten Island area, develop both traditional and digital writing skills. Independent providers support neurodivergent learners, including those with dyslexia, ADHD, autism, and other learning differences and learning disabilities. Whether your child struggles with fine motor coordination, organization, or keyboarding, Staten Island Letters connects families with providers who offer balanced, research-based support that enhances communication skills.
According to research, proper reading development is strongly linked to letter naming and letter writing. This is because the hand and the brain’s neural circuitry are inextricably linked. When students master writing letters and grasp the features of each, they also learn to recognize them more accurately. This letter identification leads to increased writing fluency, which then improves their reading skills.ps or by lifting the pencil.
Other advantages of writing in cursive include the following:
- Enhances neural connections – Cursive writing engages the brain’s right and left hemispheres.
- Improves reading ability – Children who can read and write in cursive can also read print or manuscript, but the reverse is not true.
- Better fine motor abilities – Cursive writing helps the student practice fine motor skills as he or she learns to produce smooth strokes.
Why is teaching handwriting important?
Aside from its practical use in our daily lives—writing grocery lists, greeting cards, and filling out forms—being able to write clearly and legibly is an important aspect of language, literacy, and even mathematics.
While a significant portion of schoolwork is now done online or electronically, written exams still make up a significant chunk of tests and evaluations across various subjects. When a student is able to write comfortably, legibly, and at a reasonable pace, he or she can organize his or her thoughts better and produce more meaningful content.
Furthermore, the handwriting process has been shown to impact one’s concentration and engagement positively. Other benefits of handwriting include:
- Improved memory – Studies show that students learn and retain information better when handwriting ideas instead of typing.
- Letter mastery – Handwriting allows students to interact physically with letters, which helps them remember letters and their associated sounds better. Handwriting is both a tactile and a visual experience, which is key in young learners’ literacy acquisition.
- Fully formed thoughts – Speed is key when typing, whereas handwriting is a slower, more intimate process. Handwriting allows us to slow down, breathe, and form our thoughts fully before putting them into paper.
- Improves focus – Effortless and legible writing frees you from worrying about whether your readers can understand your work. Hence, you are able to concentrate more on accomplishing your writing task.
- Highlights one’s uniqueness – Your handwriting is unique to you, and some say that you can tell a lot about a person just by looking at their handwriting. Being able to write legibly is equivalent to making a clear statement with your own unique voice.
Discover how can a handwriting tutor help improve penmanship and the benefits of having good penmanship.
Cursive Writing Worksheets
What Are the Benefits of Learning Cursive Writing?
First-grade students were typically taught manuscript or print writing in the past, while cursive writing was commonly introduced in the third grade. It was often argued that cursive writing is superior to print, especially for children with difficulties such as dyslexia and dysgraphia. It results in fewer letter reversals and better spelling because words are visualized as one unit as opposed to being separated by different strokes.
On the other hand, experts have also pointed out the importance of having children focus on the writing form used in their reading materials, which is print. But whether or not one form is easier to learn than the other, what is more, important is that students become adept at using one way of writing to produce clear and legible writing with minimal or reasonable effort. Hence, instruction should focus on the form that is most likely to produce this result, particularly for older children who struggle with handwriting.
As far as cursive writing is concerned, instructors often stress its importance because of its many advantages over overprint. It is a more natural way of writing; cursive writing is not often interrupted by stops or by lifting the pencil.
Other advantages of writing in cursive include the following:
- Enhances neural connections – Cursive writing engages the brain’s right and left hemispheres.
- Improves reading ability – Children who can read and write in cursive can also read print or manuscript, but the reverse is not true.
- Better fine motor abilities – Cursive writing helps the student practice fine motor skills as he or she learns to produce smooth strokes.
How Can Staten Island Letters Help?
The handwriting tutors and penmanship tutors we work with specializein individualized handwriting tutoring for elementary school students. The handwriting instruction we connect you with is tailored to meet your child’s needs and addresses key areas that need extra reinforcement. The handwriting tutors we work with utilize the Handwriting Without Tears® curriculum, which uses multisensory strategies to teach handwriting to students in Pre-K onwards.
Staten Island Letters connects you with highly qualified handwriting tutors and penmanship tutors who are experts in their respective fields and have completed comprehensive training and certifications. The professional handwriting tutors we work with can help your child with the following:
- Correcting letter and number reversals
- Proper pencil grip
- Manuscript/print control
- Letter and number size
- Letter and number formation
- Writing posture
- Letter and word spacing
- Cursive and manuscript writing
- Correcting letter and number reversals
- Proper pencil grip
- Manuscript/print control
- Letter and number size
- Letter and number formation
- Writing posture
- Letter and word spacing
- Cursive and manuscript writing
- A review of school-based written work
- Interview with the child and parent(s)
- Observation of near-point and far-point copying
- The WOLD handwriting assessment is timed. This assesses for accuracy, legibility, spacing, and how the child is positioned as they write (nuanced behaviors that demonstrate difficulties, which may make writing more challenging).
- The Berry VMI, the long form, and the short forms. This helps identify possible visual integration and motor and perceptual deficits that may contribute to handwriting difficulties.
- Download this app 123 ABCs Kids Handwriting-HWTP. Finger Tracing™ Flashcards are an excellent tool for improving the proper writing method. This game helps teach the Handwriting Without Tears style of handwriting used in schools worldwide and works great with the publisher-approved books.
All findings will be summarized in a report with goals and recommendations for continued support.
Handwriting Tutoring Assessment
$250
What Will Students Learn?
- Preschool
Letter and number recognition, correct pencil grip, pre-writing strokes, distinguishing between left and right, sketching.
- Grades K-2
Letter recognition and usage, letter and number formation, word spacing, pencil grip, writing on a page.
- Grades 3+
Letter formation, size, and placement; cursive letters and connections; distance between phrases and words; pencil grip and handling.
Some studies show that children who learn to write by hand also learn to read faster and tend to be more creative. Hence, the earlier children receive handwriting instruction, the more likely they’re going to excel in all subject areas at school. The handwriting tutors we work with use fun, engaging, and progressive techniques in teaching young students to write by hand. Whether you prefer in-person or online tutoring, a one-on-one handwriting tutors and penmanship tutors can help your child develop and master their handwriting skills.
MEET THE STATEN ISLAND LITERACY SPECIALISTS WE WORK WITH WHO TRAVEL TO YOUR HOME
Christine
Handwriting
Specialist and
an Occupational Therapist
Brian
MAT in Early Childhood Education,
Certificate in Childhood Education (Grades 1-6)
Anastasiya K.
MA, NYS Certified
(Birth-Grade 2)
General And Special Education
Janeese C.
Bachelor of Science
in Elementary Education
and Master’s Degree in
Special Education
Mike W.
M.A, NY State
Early Childhood & Childhood
(Birth-Grade 6), NY State
Students With Disabilities
(Birth-Grade 6)
Rebecca M.
M.S. Elementary Education,
Certified Elementary Teacher
(Grades 1-6 )
Dan B.
M.S. ED., NYS
Certified Childhood
General And Special Education
(Grades 1-6)
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Call: (347) 394-3485,
Text: (917) 426-8880
Email: statenisland@brooklynletters.com
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