ms. lennox is previewing the vocabulary terms students will need to understand before the day's reading. she has asked students to write the words in their vocabulary notebooks as well as the definitions. while the students are copying the words, ms. lennox notices that her new student, ryan, has gotten up to sharpen his pencil more times than she can count. she watches ryan sit down and begin writing. he snaps his lead after only one letter. ms. lennox offers to let ryan write using her pen. while looking over his paper. ms. lennox notices that ryan has little sense of where the letters belong relative to the lines, and many of the words are not copied correctly. ms. lennox begins to wonder if ryan has dysgraphia. until she can confirm, what is the best step ms. lennox can take now to ensure ryan understands the lesson today?
