Excellent guidelines! You say: “Handwriting is good for the brain: When students write by hand, their brains show richer connectivity between visual, motor, and language areas in frequency bands linked to learning and memory.” For beginning readers, cognitive psychologist Diane McGuinness promoted saying each phoneme as the grapheme is written to aid retention of sound-spelling correspondences. No research has been done on this practice, but it seems to follow from what you describe. Is this an appropriate extrapolation?