Reference no: EM133578592

Question: How did Nguyen's teacher improve her writing fluency? "For example, 9-year-old Nguyen's handwriting has improved considerably during the past year. She and her teacher have identified letters that were not formed correctly, and Nguyen has learned to write these letters so that they are legible. Now that her handwriting is easier to read, the teacher realizes that Nguyen has another handwriting problem. In the regular classroom, Nguyen has difficulty taking notes and writing down assignments that are given orally, because she is a very slow writer. She needs to learn writing fluency, which is the ability to write quickly and with ease, without undue attention to letter formation. Nguyen's teacher decides to teach fluency by gradually increasing expectations about the speed at which letter formation occurs. Nguyen selects two paragraphs and is told to write them as quickly as she can while still maintaining good letter formation. The teacher times her in this procedure. They decide to keep a graph of Nguyen's progress by indicating the time it takes her each day to write the two paragraphs legibly. Nguyen finds that graphing her progress is very reinforcing (see Figure 9.14 and Apply the Concept 9.14). Because Nguyen's fluency problems were