gandpsmommy Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 Do you do cursive and print, or just one? What curriculum do you use? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie Smith Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 Do you do cursive and print, or just one? What curriculum do you use? I don't use it yet, but I plan to later in the year start Hand Writing without Tears grade 3 books, which teaches cursive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dina in Oklahoma Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 Today Handwriting Without Tears seems to be popular, but when my DD (13) was small we used Abeka and she still gets compliments on her handwriting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmac Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 We just finished off HWOT cursive which is for 3rd grade. He did cursive last year in public school in second grade, but didn't finish it since we moved in May. He hates handwriting, so he picked out HWOT and he liked it. http://www.hwtears.com/hwt/parents/what-to-buy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohmomjacquie Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 We do some copy work and notebooking to practice. I also got a dollar deal from scholastic to practice cursive which I need to do bc she's having a hard time remembering from last year! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gandpsmommy Posted September 5, 2012 Author Share Posted September 5, 2012 Today Handwriting Without Tears seems to be popular, but when my DD (13) was small we used Abeka and she still gets compliments on her handwriting. I actually used Getty-Dubay Italic for print and Abeka for cursive with my dd11. She has the prettiest handwriting. She is in public school now. I have used Handwriting Without Tears with ds8 for printing, but I just don't like their cursive. I actually just went to the Abeka website to look for their writing book that teaches cursive. I think we will try it. It is the only Abeka resource we have ever used, but it worked so well for dd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2_girls_mommy Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 Rod and Staff. My odd's handwriting is so pretty from using it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chelli Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 We started cursive in second and are finishing up the first semester of third grade. I'm planning on spending the second semester just doing cursive copywork and slowly transitioning dd into doing most of her writing in cursive. We use Memoria Press New American Cursive. I don't like most normal cursive uppercase letters, but I like almost all of the NAC ones. My dd also used Getty-Dubay Italics for first and the first semester of second. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 I use Spalding's Writing Road to Reading 6th edition instructions for the cursive lowercase letters. I use Spalding manuscript for the uppercase, but am looking around for something that teaches uppercase more explicitly. I don't like HWT's narrow "C" and "G" in the uppercase manuscript. I also don't like how straight their cursive joinings are. I would use HWT with a severely disabled student, but prefer the Spalding hand in GENERAL. Recently I discovered http://www.carsondellosa.com/cd2/Products/CursiveWritingforRightLeftHandedKids/ResourceBook/804073 that was prepared for remedial and left-handed students. The left-handed vertical hand looks almost the same as Spalding, but does not supply the explicit clockface scripts. The "v", "y" and "o" are different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 I actually used Getty-Dubay Italic for print and Abeka for cursive with my dd11. She has the prettiest handwriting. She is in public school now. I have used Handwriting Without Tears with ds8 for printing, but I just don't like their cursive. I actually just went to the Abeka website to look for their writing book that teaches cursive. I think we will try it. It is the only Abeka resource we have ever used, but it worked so well for dd. Slanted handwriting is prettier than vertical, but harder to write for some students. I don't teach it, as to keep my sanity I need everyone using the same hand, but Abeka is pretty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay3fer Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 We've used HWOT all along, so we're (dd 7.5 in grade 2.5) finishing the print book and then moving into cursive, which I've already bought. It's not the most beautiful cursive, but it's presented in a way that makes sense, without any of the stupid "extra flourishes" that have always tripped ME up when it comes to handwriting. ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidi Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 We are doing cursive. Over the summer I made cursive worksheets for free online. Now they know how to form their letters. I require their latin work to be done in cursive, everything else in print if they want. Hwt cursive is super ugly. Bought it and didn't use it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shelsi Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 HWOT was a disaster here. In fact my dh was regularly seen going into another room to laugh because ds would sit there crying & sobbing all through each lesson of Handwriting Without Tears. We called it Handwriting With Tears since there was never a dry eye. Even I found it kind of funny sometimes. This year, for 3rd grade, we're doing cursive using LOE's handwriting program and he likes it! It's amazing. I've never seen my dysgraphic kid actually write without crying but he does the LOE program and not only does his handwriting look nice but there's no tears/frustration and he's proud of his work. I like that all the letters start on the base line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LAinVA Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 We are using Startwrite software. You can choose from print or cursive. You can also choose from many styles of cursive. I like being able to make up my own worksheets. Besides being able to do letters you can make up any sentence you want. It helps here to make up some silly ones. Once they have a hang of the letters, you can make it pertain to something you are studying or bibles verses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lbakos Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 (edited) nm Edited September 6, 2012 by lbakos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HollyB Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 We use Zaner Bloser. It is traditional cursive, but it reviews manuscript at the beginning of the book. My daughter enjoys it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1GirlTwinBoys Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 (edited) Were using HWT because teaching cursive that was slanted, was not coming easy for my kids. I don't want to spend that much time on cursive so we switched. They are doing much better now.:) I will say that I dislike the lined paper with HWT. My kids are using 3 different styles of paper this year depending on what they're doing. Some of their lessons still have the 2 lines with the dashed line in the middle, some are just the wide ruled regular notebook, and then we have HWT paper which makes no sense to me. I would love to be able to use Startwrite to print off worksheets in the HWT style font with regular lines, but that program doesn't work with MAC latest version. Edited September 6, 2012 by 1GirlTwinBoys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 Were using HWT because teaching cursive that was slanted, was not coming easy for my kids. I don't want to spend that much time on cursive so we switched. They are doing much better now.:) I find vertical quicker to teach too. I'm glad to see more vertical curriculums becoming available. Vertical was popular in the early 1900's for awhile and then the trend switched back to slanted. If you look through the old vintage primers that are free at Google books, you will see a LOT of vertical hands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petepie2 Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 We started cursive in 2nd grade with A Reason for Handwriting's Transition book. My DD caught on rather quickly, so this year we're slowing working through one "Pictures in Cursive" book. For some days I have her copy her memory verse in cursive or let her Apologia copywork be her cursive practice. She does handwriting practice 4 days a week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonia Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 No program here. Just printed out a sheet I found online that showed the letter formations. Had dd practice the letters, then simple words, now sentences from spelling. It's working well for us (plus it's free!). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halcyon Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 We are using Startwrite software. You can choose from print or cursive. You can also choose from many styles of cursive. I like being able to make up my own worksheets. Besides being able to do letters you can make up any sentence you want. It helps here to make up some silly ones. Once they have a hang of the letters, you can make it pertain to something you are studying or bibles verses. This is what we are using for my 2nd grader. We used hwot for my older and i dont love his script. He is a leftie however, and finds it hard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaHappy Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 Last year, I did cursive with my 3rd grader using Cheerful Cursive. It was just okay. I like the Pentime series better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathryn Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 We'll continue with HWT when we finish the second grade book. DS is excited to learn cursive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Researcher Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 We started in the early years with HWOT, but had a hard time transitioning to cursive with that program. We then moved to GDI and I couldn't be happier! My kids also love it and I now wish I would have known about it earlier. DS now has much nicer handwriting. Book C of GDI begins to introduce cursive joins about half way through the book. If you want to start there, you could and then move to Book D which has smaller lines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boscopup Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 We just started using Pentime to transition to cursive. So far, so good. It gets done, and DS seems to like it. I tried GDI cursive early last year, but I could tell DS was going to get confused with the joins changing based on the next letter. I learned GDI myself with the adult book, and those changing joins confused me too! Pentime is nice looking, and I'm ok with showing my son alternate ways to form some letters and letting him choose which is easiest for him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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