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Direct linkChristensen, Carol A. – Educational Psychology, 2005
There is a strong relationship between orthographic-motor integration related to handwriting and students' ability to produce creative and well-structured written text. This relationship is thought to be due to the cognitive load which results when attention is required by writers to write letters and words on the page. Lack of automaticity in…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Grade 9, Written Language, Handwriting
