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I'm thinking of making a change to handwriting next year, and I'd like to have my oldest be involved in the decision making. We have been doing handwriting practice for years, and she can do decent cursive and decent print when she tries, which is practically never. Anyway, I'd like to give her some different handwriting styles that she can choose from to hopefully give her more ownership (and frankly, it's her handwriting. I want it to be neat and legible, but ultimately it's what she will be using for the rest of her life, so I want her to like it). Can you give me different styles to look into (and companies with penmanship books would be helpful too)?

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Zaner-Bloser and Palmer are two of the most common traditional cursive hands. I learned both: Palmer in second grade, Zaner-Bloser in third grade at a different school. They're very similar, but the F and T upper-case letters are quite different.

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I learnt a British-style cursive (similar to Copperplate, perhaps.) I taught my dd Getty-Dubay Italics instead, because when written rapidly, it looks neater and legible. Another affordable option is Penny Gardner's Italics book.

 

Among the American cursive styles, I prefer New American Cursive. I don't like the weird G and Q of the other styles.

 

Here is a chart of different handwriting styles for you to compare.

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My son learned D'Nealian in PS so we stuck with that. We are doing D'Nealian Cursive as well. I am completely lost on the different forms of cursive. Ours has the Q that looks like  2.

 

That is how an uppercase Q has always been written. Why? IDK. Why are any of the letters written the way they are? :D

 

A friend once taught her ds BJUP's cursive, which has some really strange letters (uppercase G and I, for example...I think those are the ones). Her ds went to public school for fourth grade; his teacher consistently marked wrong any word he had written which included those letters. :glare: I tend to prefer hands that do not teach shapes that are very different from the norm.

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