<div dir="ltr">Hi Susan,<div>I work at Westmark School in Encino, California. The students all have a diagnosed language based learning disability, and we have a 1:1 iPad program. For students who struggle with dysgraphia, we use the iPads for marking and writing sentences. There is a program called Notability which is useful for students to draw on and highlight scanned pdf's. It also allows the user to zoom in on the letters/words. The student lesson worksheets are quite small for those students who have fine motor and dysgraphia issues.</div><div>I give the students a choice for writing or typing the pretest. </div><div>Kathy Spielman</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><b><font size="4" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Kathy Spielman</font></b><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Teaching Beyond Limits</font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">818-314-9389</font></div><div><a href="mailto:spielmankathy@gmail.com" target="_blank">spielmankathy@gmail.com</a></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 3:50 PM, Woodruff Susan via Simtrainer-l <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simtrainer-l@lists.ku.edu" target="_blank">simtrainer-l@lists.ku.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello …<br>
I am working with a district that is going 1:1 this fall. They also have a major district goal focusing on writing. We’ve made the decision to start with Sentence Writing.<br>
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SO … my question is … should the kids do their writing pretest in their own handwriting or should they let the students use their technology? I know there is a lot of debate about the thinking processes being different when handwriting versus keyboarding. <br>
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Have any of you struggled with this decision? I can see teachers wanting to put kids on computers, but how would we know the difference between real sentence writing issues or keyboarding issues? <br>
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Please share your thoughts with me. We have to be prepared to talk with the teachers about this in August.<br>
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Thanks so much.<br>
Sue Woodruff<br>
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