Do you remember how you learned to write? Neither do I. The Zaner-Bloser Handwriting Grade 1 program has a write it, review it, evaluate it, and apply it process that provides practice and exposure to letters, numbers, and words. With QR codes granting access to Zaney, your Digital Tutor, and the abundance of practice, you are equipped to teach your 1st grader traditional style handwriting. This is a single use, consumable handwriting workbook for one student. Students will have midlines to help guide their penmanship and spacing. By unit 4 students are applying all the skills they have learned to write narratives and finish short writing prompts like: Write a short story about a time you had a great day; write names of your favorite foods; finish a book review. Pages are perforated for easy removal. Pgs. 132, sc. ~Rebecca
Step-by-step instruction and self-evaluation plus engaging activities and fun, colorful illustrations get students excited about handwriting.
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
colorful, easy to use, gentle approach with some repetition but not too much. We love this better than Handwriting Without Tears
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…
My child needs practice in forming letters correctly.
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