Thank you for your response. She gets frustrated over tasks that she has not mastered yet; such as writing lower case letters. She can write the letters, but not "perfectly" and so she gets very frustrated and doesn't want to do any of it.
I have personally found that the writing paper that comes with 'Handwriting without Tears' has a magical transforming effect on me and on DS. I can't explain it, but it soothed something that just seemed wrong about regular lined paper - even the school paper with the dashes in the middle.
I also like their technique asking the child to drawing a little smiley face under the letter on the line that she likes the best. I asked my son to draw the smiley face under my line of letters first, so that he had to closely examine them as see that not all of them were perfect.
If you register, you can print out some of their lined paper from your printer, with words to copy of your choice - for free.
Handwriting is difficult, because it doesn't matter how well one understands what to do - on must spend a certian amount of time practicing - and it's sort of boring to practice to that level. Boring but nescessary. So if she loves, 'tounge twisters' for example, or puns, or Shel Silverstien Poems, you can program in interesting words to copy, and she can maybe take an interest in making a book of her favorites.
It's not easy, but it's possible!
Best Wishes,
Grinity
