sagira Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 (edited) I love using copywork, but the hunting down and typing and preparing has gotten to me now that I am pregnant and exhausted. Besides Queen's Homeschool's, are there any copywork books out there? I would like something eclectic and encompassing literature as well as quotes, poetry, science facts if possible. Something appropriate for my reluctant soon to be seven-year-old. TIA! ETA: We use Getty-Dubay Italic Handwriting. Edited June 25, 2010 by sagira Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nansk Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 (edited) Penny Gardner's ebook: Italics - Beautiful Handwriting for Children Italics copybooks from DownUnder Literature (available on currclick.com) These include Aesop, Beatrix Potter and one other. Kimberly Garcia's Write From History (available on lulu.com) in the GDI version. This is similar to Writing Tales but has copywork instead of written narration. Also has grammar; it can be your lang arts curric. Search currclick.com and lulu.com for "italics copywork". HTH Edited June 25, 2010 by nansk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pata Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 This lady has copybooks in a variety of fonts on Lulu. She has ones that go along with the history divisions. Hope that helps! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.... Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 Do you use Writing with Ease? That has copywork, narration and dictation in it. I'm a big WWE fan. It's really helped our writing this past year. All you need is the workbook for about 25 bucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dina in Oklahoma Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 Memoria Press Spelling Wisdom by Simply Charlotte Mason :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TracyP Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 Simply Spelling Grades 3-12: the passages *might* be long for your kiddo but I'm sure you could easily modify. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacey in NY Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 Pata in VA Thanks so much for the link to copywork on LULU, we are studing Ancients next year and this will be perfect. Both boys have completed the whole series of HWT and I needed something to keep them practicing. Great find! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 Copycat books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happyhappyjoyjoy Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 This lady has copybooks in a variety of fonts on Lulu. She has ones that go along with the history divisions. Hope that helps! 'I remember seeing this before, but I wanted the Ancients in Zaner Bloser print and was frustrated that she doesn't have that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happyhappyjoyjoy Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 'I remember seeing this before, but I wanted the Ancients in Zaner Bloser print and was frustrated that she doesn't have that. I just tried to email her to see if she will offer it in ZB print, but it came back to me. Does anyone have a way to contact her? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpklehm Posted June 26, 2010 Share Posted June 26, 2010 Living Memory http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/living-memory/4080865 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nukeswife Posted June 26, 2010 Share Posted June 26, 2010 (edited) Another place to get short copywork sentences is Happy Scribe and they also have longer passage books for older kids called Master Writer Right now on their site you can get all of the Happy scribe books as a download for $8 (that's 35 books on all different subjects and each one has about 20 copy work sentences) All 19 of the Master Writer books can be bought for $10 for the download. (these have 20 days worth of work each) If you want any of the books individually they are only $1.50 each and each book has block, d'nealian and cursive fonts included. Edited June 26, 2010 by nukeswife Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nansk Posted June 26, 2010 Share Posted June 26, 2010 (edited) Another place to get short copywork sentences is Happy Scribe ...If you want any of the books individually they are only $1.50 each and each book has block, d'nealian and cursive fonts included. I really like the books from HappyScribe; so many options that I would not have thought of! The price is good too. I would have gladly used these if they had the GDI font. D'nelian italic doesn't appeal to me. Edited June 26, 2010 by nansk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nansk Posted June 26, 2010 Share Posted June 26, 2010 I just tried to email her to see if she will offer it in ZB print, but it came back to me. Does anyone have a way to contact her? Hi, Julie is a member of this forum. Her id is "Julie in GA" and her blog is here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nukeswife Posted June 26, 2010 Share Posted June 26, 2010 I really like the books from HappyScribe; so many options that I would not have thought of! The price is good too. I would have gladly used these if they had the GDI font. D'nelian italic doesn't appeal to me. I actually just bought them for the sayings and use them to make my own copywork sheets using startwrite software because we use HWOT and I wanted that font and the double line for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4besitos Posted June 26, 2010 Share Posted June 26, 2010 I know you were looking for something to buy, but one thing I switched to was having the children copy sentences I wanted them to learn from their lessons. So prayers that they are supposed to be learning by age, Bible verses, lines of poetry or quotes from Shakespeare. I don't switch the copywork each day as they need to have the selection memorized first. So it isn't a lot of me work. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nansk Posted June 28, 2010 Share Posted June 28, 2010 I actually just bought them for the sayings and use them to make my own copywork sheets using startwrite software because we use HWOT and I wanted that font and the double line for a while. Oh, that is a lot of re-work! Is it worth it? Can you copy the text from the HappyScribe PDFs and paste into your StartWrite? (We use StartWrite for the GDI font too.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagira Posted June 29, 2010 Author Share Posted June 29, 2010 Wow, thanks. So many ideas to consider. I was already using copywork from our lessons and wanted something even simpler. I admit I do own Living Memory but I think I've exhausted all the short sentences, or the content is incomprehensible to ds. I'll definitely get more use from it from 3rd grade on. No, I don't use WWE, but I will be using PLL, which I believe includes a fair amount of copywork. Will research all those ideas soon. Thanks again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nukeswife Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 Oh, that is a lot of re-work! Is it worth it? Can you copy the text from the HappyScribe PDFs and paste into your StartWrite? (We use StartWrite for the GDI font too.) Unfortunately no, it doesn't copy and paste, but I look at Happy Scribe as a reference, just like if I bought a book with nothing but copywork passages that I then had to write or type up myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nestof3 Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 I am selling my Character Italics Level 1 print copywork which uses Getty-Dubay font. http://www.italicbuilders.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tardis Girl Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 Just thought I'd add a plug for Spelling Wisdom from Simply Charlotte Mason. It's available in downloadable PDF format, or printed books. There are sample, etc. on the website. And they also offer versions for both American and British spelling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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