In addition to the moderate width of the pen, there are several points to pay attention to in practicing English calligraphy.
First, the posture of holding the pen.
The correct posture of holding a pen should be that the pencil is sandwiched between the thumb and the index finger, then sitting on the middle finger, and the last two fingers gently hold the middle finger. Put the hand holding the pen gently on the table and move the pen with your thumb and forefinger. It is very important that all knuckles must be outward. Children like to compare their fingers to frog's legs. Teachers and parents will tell their children a story with natural pronunciation when teaching them to hold a pen correctly. One day, a very studious frog loved to write. One day, he wrote for a long time (telling the children that frogs used to write only with thumb and forefinger), and found that he was very tired, so he found a piece of wood and sat down. Suddenly, he found it easy to write like this. This is a poem with the natural pronunciation of "og", which is called: og, og, og. Frog, frog, wood, wood. A frog is sitting on a log. The middle finger is naturally a log. If you hold a pen with three fingers and sit on the ring finger, it is very unsightly. The key is that the words written in this way are still ugly, so, "don't forget to sit on the log."
Second, the writing method of letters.
None of the letters are written from a single line. Most of the letters are the same size, except for seven letters with a stick higher than it, namely B, D, F, H, K, L and T (but note that the stick on T is not as high as others), and the other six letters have tails: F, G, J, P, Q and Y.
Most letters are written from the upward line, such as: B, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, P, R, T, U, V, W, X, Y, F (note that F is marked with a tick when it is written down). These letters are written from top to bottom.
Some letters are like C letters, such as "A, D, O, G, Q". People call these letters "caterpillar letters", that is, caterpillar letters. The letters z and e are written from the front of the paper to the right.
In the initial stage, parents and teachers only focus on teaching lowercase letters, and then slowly introduce uppercase letters after children master them. Capital letters are usually used as the first letter of a person or place name. What children need to pay attention to is that all capital letters are the same size, unlike lowercase letters, there are ascender (the rising head of lowercase letters, such as B) and descender (the lower half of lowercase letters, such as G). Except C, G, O, Q, all letters are written counterclockwise first, and other letters are written from top to bottom. It is also necessary to remind children that all capital letters are not conjoined.
Third, the writing of conjoined letters.
At first, the best time to teach conjoined characters is after introducing children's binary letters, so that children can easily remember that some sounds are composed of two or more letters. It is also a good choice to start teaching with letters with small tails. Some letters, such as m, h and a, have small tails. If children learn to write from such letters, they can easily and naturally convert into conjoined writing. Similarly, when teaching conjoined letters, teachers can let children press the correct strokes in the air to give them a feeling. Let them write on paper from the beginning. If children can't write well all the time, they will feel annoyed and have no confidence in conjoined characters in the future.
In Britain, very young children (some schools teach them from the first grade, and most children participate from the second grade) should be encouraged to start learning conjoined alphabet writing. Parents and teachers encourage their children to write letters in conjoined form, because it can not only improve their fluency in the writing process, but also help them spell letters correctly, because children can feel how several letters are written in conjoined form at one go, which can remind them to arrange several letters in the correct order. For example, when writing the word coat, children will not be taught the linking method of oa, so children will not write coat as caot.