One key benefit of achieving
automaticity in handwriting — i.e. being able write and create letters without needing to allocate cognitive attention to the act of writing the letters themselves — is that it allows children to focus on the content of what they're writing.
Not exact matches
Malpique, A.A., Pino - Pasternak, D., & Valcan, D. (2017)
Handwriting automaticity and writing instruction
in Australian kindergarten: an exploratory study.
In this study, children with higher
handwriting automaticity scores also had higher word reading scores.