Kipling Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 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)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 We're switching to Getty-Dubay (italics) because it seems simple and I think something that's done constantly should be simple. Zaner-Bloser (single stroke) seems simple as well. I think Spencerian Penmanship (1800's cursive) is gorgeous and quite possibly something an 11 year old girl could really get into. Good luck! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisB Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Not sure what handwriting style this is considered, but we use Teaching Cursive!. We've had great success with the program, and it's fairly self teaching especially with the older the student. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gil Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Legible and Illegible? :lol: 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zinnia Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 I learned D'Nealian as a kid. I still like my handwriting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeaConquest Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 I learned D'Nealian as well. My favorites are New American Cursive and Getty Dubay Italic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 French http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/521733-french-cursive-handwriting/ Don Potter http://www.donpotter.net/education_pages/handwriting.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cintinative Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nansk Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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