Handwriting – A Forgotten Language Skill?

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Handwriting in early childhood education: Current research and future implications (2015, unknown): “Handwriting, deﬁned more speciﬁcally as the ability to produce writing legibly and quickly, has been consistently linked to composition skill throughout development (Berninger et al, 1997; Connelly et al., 2005; Graham, 1999; Medwell and Wray, 2008).”
Examining the transcription-writing link: Effects of handwriting fluency and spelling accuracy on writing performance via planning and translating in middle grades (2017, background): “Since transcription receives little research attention beyond primary school (Medwell & Wray, 2008), this gap is even more noticeable in middle grades.”
Modeling Writing Development: Contribution of Transcription and Self-Regulation to Portuguese Students' Text Generation Quality (2013, background): “This low-level writing skill was under-recognized for years (Medwell & Wray, 2008) because it was assumed that it did not interfere with text quality in typically developing children beyond primary grades (Scardamalia, Bereiter, & Goleman, 1982).”