Daily Printing Practice

These materials are mostly practice; any instruction is limited.

This is good, straight forward, traditional, get-it-done, unfussy, black & white handwriting workbook with a lot of practice! It uses dotted lines to trace, arrows to direct your stroked and a big dot to show you where to begin your letter. All of these features make for self directed student practice. Learn upper and lower case letters individually, then work up to words - and not just 3 letter words either - there are dinosaur names in here to practice (cursive book only.) They also use proper first names, all 50 states, number words, 16 colors, days of the week, and 12 months. In the cursive book, the lines are 1cm high with a light midline (not dotted). Something that is unique here is the next section: there are 12 challenges for the student to complete on blank, lined pages provided. They have to copy a poem they like, write out lyrics, write a poem, copy a recipe, write an invite, copy 5 sayings, write some favorite jokes, list fave books, a letter to a friend, a grocery list, 5 riddles and 5 rules of a game. This kind of activity makes practicing handwriting a lot more fun! You can use this with an older student who needs to improve their cursive because it isn't babyish at all. The printing book has wider lines, but all the same features mentioned above. You are not doing the challenge activities at the end, instead, you write the seasons, animals and food words. A grading rubric is a big help to the parent/teacher when evaluating a student's work. It tells you just what to look for, and lets the student know what to focus on as well. 120pp ~ Sara