In John's reading lessons, the program is having him learn a certain form of the lower case letter a. The program does instruct children to write the letters a few times--not as a handwriting exercise, but in order to help ingrain the shape of the letters into the brain (same purpose as forming the letters in sand or with clay). John has been struggling with the program's instructions to draw a "backwards S and then add a loop." All of his attempts came out scribbled and he was getting frustrated.Today I said to him, "To me, it doesn't look like a backwards S. It looks like the shepherd's crook that a bishop carries [a crosier]. Try drawing one of those."
And he got it right away.
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