teaching cursive

[oceandaughter]

[Theodore]

Just look around the Internet or get a book on cursive, pick a style you like, and practice. Lots. Personally, I think being able to print clearly is sufficient in today's world, given the much larger emphasis on typing skill. I can write cursive fairly well, but I never use it in real life except for signing my name.

Of course, some people view cursive more as an art form, but the question then becomes, why cursive and not calligraphy?

[iamnettie]

For us we are still mastering clean penmanship in print....then we will move on to curcsive.....we have been working on typing all along. We were using AOP's K and 1st grade and it worked on handwriting. Now for this next year we are going to try "Pentime"

[momo3boys]

[Lily]

We started with a D'nealian book. It's like beginner cursive - all except the connecting and the uppercase letters, but it gets them used to doing letters in one continuous stroke. I just picked up a dry-erase book that has large cursive letter practice so we'll be using that before he attempts to fit them on a regular sheet of lined paper.

Another idea we've used is a box of sand and a stylus. The sand creates a bit of a drag so the letters are formed slower and with more control.