Abstract
The monograph presents the major analytical outcomes of three years long research on handwriting development in students of the first to fifth grade at primary school. The main goal is to describe the typical written expression of the pupil using two diferent handwriting style: Comenia Script (the manusctipt handwriting) and the traditional cursive handwriting.
This topic is regarded as an actual issue of educational and psychological councelling center, teachers and parents of the pupils. The metodological part provides the readers with the research background, aims and the methodology of the research.
We introduce the assesing scale of Jana Veverková and Anna Kucharská (2011), adapted by us. The scale included a description of phenomena related to graphomotor and grammatical aspects of writing, including the overall error rate and work with errors.
By the means of this scale we were assessing the written expressions of 624 pupils - distributed according to the school year, handwriting style and gender. Data were colected twice of the school year (in the beginning and in the end).
Thanks to that, we have a comprehensive image of the of pupils handwriting in the Czech schools.