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At what age/grade, do they stop letting kids write on the dotted line paper and start using wide ruled? I can clearly remember still using the primary/dotted line paper in like 2nd grade, at least. Anyone know?

DS5.5 has a homework journal that his teacher puts his assignments in. Generally, it's read a book and answer 3 questions or write 3 sentences. Well, DS5.5 is a perfectionist, so he erases his lower case a's 100 times to get it perfectly right on the wide ruled paper... whereas if he had the dotted line paper, he'd be ok. I requested that he be able to use the paper, and I've even offered to buy the paper/notebook for him. I'm just waiting to hear back from the teacher and thought I'd ask you all in the mean time.

He had a meltdown over that letter a!!! I felt so bad because physically, he's tall and really coordinated. He has decent other fine motor skills (used a fork at like 9 months old, etc). But he struggles a bit with his handwriting. He does MUCH better with the larger spaced lines.

My DS8 (4th grade) is still using dotted line paper in class.

OK, cool. So there's HOPE that she'll agree to switching to the dotted line paper! I hate to see something like writing a letter perfectly distanced between the two blue lines on wide ruled paper at age 5 get him so down!!!

Try this:

http://shopping.hwtears.com/category/paper

I have several Mead journals - with the picture part though... I told her she could have them for him if she would let him change.

He's never really had to write formally before, especially on lined paper, since pre-K (and K for that matter) really just introduces writing letters alone, not really full words (let alone sentences).