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Zaner-Bloser Handwriting Grade K Student Edition (2020 edition)
- Offers colorful, engaging, and user-friendly instruction for kindergarteners
- Instruction begins with basic stroke patterns before moving to letter formation
- LARGE line spacing is provided for new writers!
- Provides headlines, midlines, red base lines, and visual helps for placement
Introducing handwriting to your kindergartner doesn’t have to be scary! The traditional handwriting approach taught in the Zaner-Bloser Handwriting K program is engaging and user-friendly. Young students begin understanding stroke patterns to form letters through fun activities and drawing. Students are introduced to Zaney, their Digital Tutor accessed via QR codes. Brief instructions teach students both lower- and upper-case letters and numbers up to 20. The application unit has students handwriting practice sentences on copywork pages. Basic punctuation (period and comma) is taught. Midline spacing is at its largest to provide structure for letter formation. Pages are perforated for easy removal. Pgs. 140, sc. ~Rebecca
Step-by-step instruction and self-evaluation plus engaging activities and fun, colorful illustrations get students excited about handwriting.
- Basic manuscript strokes: vertical lines, horizontal lines, backward and forward circle lines, and slant lines
- Manuscript uppercase letters, lowercase letters, and numerals
120 - Handwriting Tutor
Lots of ways to assure success here with this handwriting across the curriculum program that is sequenced and engaging in instruction. Lower levels practice names and places, writing greetings, etc. Higher grades are history-focused. All lessons follow a 3-step pattern of model, practice, evaluate. Students learn to write, review, and evaluate their handwriting. "Apply" sections allow for short student composition activities. In manuscript and cursive, letters are introduced and grouped by the strokes used. A scannable QR code will link to a Digital Tutor with how-to videos. Throughout the book, 4 colored key images will highlight ways for students to evaluate letter shape, size, spacing, and slant. The 2M book provides manuscript Books 2C-3 briefly overview manuscript and then move to cursive. Books K through 3 provide headlines, midlines, red base lines and visual helps for placement. In book 4, the red line is replaced; in 5 midlines disappear. Grades 4-6 include historically related items (sometimes even using photographs of original documents). The Teacher Editions contain reduced student images, additional multisensory activity options, teaching helps, ELL and Occupational Therapy tips. These provide multisensory options and developmentally appropriate activities. The Practice Book is a collection of reproducible masters for extra practice. The ZBPortal is not available with home school edition. Packages are available as combined Student and Teacher Edition; Student and Practice and Student, and Teacher Edition and Practice. Student books vary from approx. 60 (higher grades) to 144 pages (lower grades); pb. Teacher guides. ~ Ruth
We started with Handwriting Without Tears, but I'm not a fan of the quality of example, and the non standard guide lines. My older child does ZB, and I just tell him he doesn't have to write 12 of…
great program
Plan to use this with my child who is going into Kindergarten. Have used it with my older child as well.
Required by our school