I missed the Palmer Method by a few years. From what I read, it uses more of the arm and less of the wrist? Is that something you continue to use today?
These days there are a number of methodologies employed for teaching writing. They still have the kids practice letter shapes over and over again, though. From what I’ve seen, it starts with gross motor skills (making big letters) and then using finer and finer skills (trying to write the letters within lines). All the while they’re trying to learn the phonetic sounds to attach to those particular graphemes. So it’s less about developing handwriting and more about understanding that this shape “makes” sounds. (I’m oversimplifying things, but that’s the gist I’ve gotten.)
