I love your ideas, Lucounu, but she won't do those sort of things. She has never been interested in workbooks, or following directions through a "sequence of strokes." I wish she would do those things willingly, but I am not going to force her and turn it into a battle of the wills. I will continue to work on explaining to her how important this skill is and see if I can get her to take some baby steps. She really has this attitude of not wanting to be the student. Oh boy, I guess I was exactly the same way...