The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

[Hunter]

What do you use the pangram, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy brown dog." for?

 

I'm going to use it for handwriting drills and assessments, but I'd like to widen out, and...I don't know... make the pangram into something my tutoring students can engage with on a deeper level.

 

We will use google images and look at artwork inspired by the pangram, and make our own art I guess, but I'm awfully vague about how I want to do that. We will also study pangrams in general.

 

I don't know...but I just have the feeling, that...there is SOMETHING here. Something to grab ahold of. Something like a mascot for my group, maybe. I'm realizing that handwriting is a BIG deal for my ladies, and it's going to be one of the biggest foci in the months to come. A picture is worth a thousand words. Just a funny poster hanging on the wall, makes the pangram come alive. I'd like to do more though.

 

Edited June 1, 2012 by Hunter

[Amy Jo]

I use it for testing fonts on the computer. There are some here as free handwriting worksheets in several styles: http://www.copycatbooks.com/free_m_printables.htm

 

I love the poster by the way, and the mascot idea sounds fun, especially if you are spending so much time on handwriting.

[Cosmos]

I've never seen it with "brown" repeated. Is that a variation?

 

I've seen:

 

The quick red fox jumps over the lazy brown dog.

 

and

 

A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

 

I just noticed that the one in the poster doesn't have an "s" by using "jumped" instead of "jumps"!

[DianeW88]

It was traditionally used for typing practice, as you will hit almost every key typing it. We used this in my high school typing class as a warm up every day before we started our regular assignment (back in the Dark Ages, when we also had to learn shorthand :lol:). There wasn't anything "deep" about it. Just a typing exercise, from my understanding.

 

Oh, and that graphic is incorrect. It is "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog". Using "jumped" eliminates the letter "s", and it is no longer a pangram.

Edited June 1, 2012 by DianeW88

[Hunter]

Ugg! It's a good thing I posted. Okay so it's "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

 

Using an uppercase T doesn't allow practice of the lowercase t. Hmmm.

[beaners]

You have a lowercase t in the. :001_smile:

 

I occasionally throw this sentence into our copywork as a quick way to make sure we haven't forgotten the more rarely used letters.

[Hunter]

This handwriting assessment uses "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs."

 

No wonder I am confused. Who knows how many versions I have read over the past few days.

 

This handwriting assessment resource gives different lpm goals for girls and boys. How interesting.

[Hunter]

You have a lowercase t in the. :001_smile:

 

I occasionally throw this sentence into our copywork as a quick way to make sure we haven't forgotten the more rarely used letters.

 

Oh, there it is! I thought I remembered a lowercase t. Thanks! I was starting to stress. Now I feel better :-)