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Your five-year-old is picking up a pencil and starting to write. Some days you see recognizable letters. Other days it's still scribbles and backwards "S"s. They want to write stories, but the words come out as random letter strings: "I LV MI DOG" (I love my dog). Their handwriting is large, wobbly, inconsistent—sometimes legible, sometimes not. Common Core Standards expect kindergarteners to write sentences using a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing. They should form upper and …