Copywork: What do you use for it?

[JadeOrchidSong]

I am interested in having ds do copywork. I wonder what you use. Please share.

J

[NoPlaceLikeHome]

I use it as a supplement for spelling, grammar, great sentences, and vocabulary. My son copies my example that is done in cursive in his notebook in cursive so I also use as handwriting practice. We then discuss the sentence and words and grammar;)

 

AO Copywork message board has good copywork in its file section that I have found useful since it uses great literature as copywork:

 

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AOCopywork/?yguid=264101912

 

Of course, depending on your child's age, how much you assign will vary. My son is 8 and does a couple of sentences a day.

[Homemama2]

Bible verses, poems, hymns, and sentences from good literature (we use what we are reading at the time). We use books from AO mostly.

[mom31257]

I've used our memory work (Bible verses, poetry, and a few quotes). Zaner Bloser has a free copywork generator here.

[mcconnellboys]

I use some copywork books that Julie Shields developed to go along with SOTW and which are sold at Lulu.com.

[nono]

I take poems and verses from What Your Kindergartener Should Know and have my dd copy a line a day. We just finished Old King Cole today and then she cuts out her sentences and pastes them up on background paper that we hang in the school/play room. I plan to take them down at the end of the year and put them in a binder for her. She loves doing it and hearing all the "old" language, as she calls it. :)

 

Tomorrow, she'll be starting on learning what a Haiku is, via copywork. I found a haiku that explains haiku here: http://www.kidzone.ws/poetry/haiku.htm

[Guest Cindie2dds]

I've used our memory work (Bible verses, poetry, and a few quotes). Zaner Bloser has a free copywork generator here.

 

Thank you! Now I can print out.....

 

AO Copywork message board has good copywork in its file section that I have found useful since it uses great literature as copywork:

 

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AOCopywork/?yguid=264101912

 

AO's copywork, which I was trying to find! :)

 

You guys are great! Thank you.

[Closeacademy]

My kids like these:

 

http://www.happyscribecopybooks.com/

 

:001_smile:

[karensk]

We used regular handwriting paper for copywork.

 

The copy material might be anything...poetry, Bible verses, a short passage from a current favorite book, copywork assignment in FLL or other curricula. When they were younger, I'd occasionally have them dictate something that they were interested in to me. I'd be their scribe and write their words down, so then they could copy it without worrying about spelling, etc. This was usually something like a special occasion or a nature-event that they experienced. Then they were naturally motivated to copy the stuff down. :)

[Tracy]

I take sentences from dd's Five in a Row book for the week. I create the copywork here: http://www.worksheetworks.com/english/writing/handwriting.html

[JESSICAinMD]

I pick out lines from their science book or Story of the World.

[SilverMoon]

I use a graded writing tablet and write out the passage for them, for my littles that is. By third grade I can just point to the line in a book and have them copy straight from that.

 

Our copywork assignments come from good books they're reading, a read aloud, science or history.

[susankenny]

I take sentences from dd's Five in a Row book for the week. I create the copywork here: http://www.worksheetworks.com/english/writing/handwriting.html

 

 

Oh, I love that website! Thanks for sharing it!!!!

 

Susan

[JadeOrchidSong]

Thanks for your wealth of information. I like the template you can create on line.

I will probably take sentences from their read-alouds for copy work. I have let ds7 copy his memory verses.

J

[Classically Minded]

Besides the copywork in WWE1 and FLL, I just open up the KJV Bible and pick a verse for my daughter to copy. You can also use any classic book and pick a sentence. :001_smile:

[hweakland]

We use copywork books from Sandy Queen @ www.queenhomeschool.com

 

Blessings,

Hope

[momto2blessings]

I second them:) So nice to have them just open up and go with wonderful character and Bible verses and poetry. :)Gina

[NancyNellen]

We use a really big jar filled with folded-up papers on which I have carefully written favorite Scriptures, book quotes, and poetry that we love as a family. The child pulls two out and then picks which one he/she would like to copy that day. We keep them all in a 3-ring copywork notebook.

[NoPlaceLikeHome]

I pick out lines from their science book or Story of the World.

 

:iagree: I have done this as well:)