Let's Write: Handwriting Legibility Workbook (2025 update)

Handwriting legibility is an important focus of many school based occupational therapists!

What we know is that improvement comes down to a lot of practice with pencil (or pen) to paper! 

What we also know is that many children need to be taught aspects of handwriting legibility to work on.  They may identify that their handwriting is "messy" but what does that actually mean?  What concrete steps can they take to address handwriting especially when it is not a preferred activity? 

Introducing the new Let's Write: Handwriting Legibility Workbook. With an engaging robot theme, this is designed to be used with your primary (elementary) aged school children after they have already developed letter formation skills.

The aspects of handwriting legibility addressed in this workbook include aligning writing with the line, distinguishing between the size of letters, spacing between letters and words, using capital letters and punctuation appropriately. The workbook may be completed in any order and you may concentrate on one area more than another if your child requires this focus.

The workbook contains:

• Handwriting legibility progress sheet
• One page “Robots Rock Writing Checklist”
• Eight desk sized “Robots Rock Writing Checklists”
• Over 100 pages of guided activities (writing, cutting)
• Multisensory strategies to be used in conjunction with the guided activities. 

The handwriting legibility progress sheet allows therapists (and parents and educators) to record how much assistance a child needs to achieve the various aspects of legibility. The multisensory strategies provide examples to highlight visual information, add a physcial component, provide kinesthetic learning opportunities, use verbal prompts or incorporate more cognitive strategies.  

Use the slideshow below to see a sample of pages. 

This Handwriting Legibility Workbook was created as a companion to "Axel's Neat Writing Challenges" where students are introduced to the aspects of handwriting legibility mentioned previously.  

​I have been test running this product all year with my school-age clients. They have loved the robot theme and there are enough pages in this workbook to allocate home work. There are different activities for each aspect of handwriting legibility to keep students interested and engaged.  

Handwriting legibility may be different when a student is forming their own content (free writing) or under time restrictions.  This is compared to copying information or when time is not a factor.  This should be noted when monitoring progess. 

Get your copy of the Let's Write:Handwriting Legibility Workbook today! 

Let's Write: Handwriting Legibility Workbook