What is your favorite handwriting style/books?

[Oakblossoms]

We ended up using Italics for my the older two and I do not like the outcome. I was thinking of going to A Reason for Handwriting. Just wanted to see what the Hive likes :)

[nansk]

I love Italics, but among the traditional cursive programs, I like New American Cursive from Memoria Press.

[boscopup]

I love Pentime. It's cheap, straightforward, no-frills, good instruction. My kids like it. One is teaching himself cursive (I help here and there, but he's mostly just doing it on his own), and the other is learning manuscript (with me at elbow).

[Alte Veste Academy]

Zaner-Bloser http://www.zaner-bloser.com/handwriting

 

Cheap, easy, effective.

[North Coast School]

Handwriting Without Tears. Hands down favorite in our house.

[MinivanMom]

I love Handwriting without Tears for printing. It's simple, straight-forward, and results in very neat handwriting. We have also used it for cursive, but I don't love their cursive style. My oldest wanted a prettier style for cursive, so after finishing HWT cursive she used the Queen Homeschool handwriting books to learn Zaner-Blosen style cursive. She has very pretty handwriting now. Ds7 has been happy with the simpler HWT-style cursive.

[I.Dup.]

We love HWT to start with and then move to A Reason for Handwriting in 2nd grade or so.

[Tracy]

We ended up using Italics for my the older two and I do not like the outcome.

 

 

Just curious what you did not like about the outcome.

 

I am very practical and do not care much which font is used. But I do prefer something in which every lower case letter starts on the baseline, because it is much easier to teach and learn.

[UrbanSue]

 

Just curious what you did not like about the outcome.

 

I am very practical and do not care much which font is used. But I do prefer something in which every lower case letter starts on the baseline, because it is much easier to teach and learn.

 

 

Funny, because I love WRTR handwriting instruction precisely because nothing starts on the baseline! We found that the specific, explicit instruction with WRTR produced the quickest, most pleasing results with my kids.

[Ellie]

I just like to start with a traditional Zaner-Bloser. If the dc want to do something additional, such as caligraphy or Spencerian, then I can add that in.

[Michelle My Bell]

Pentime!

[Oakblossoms]

I just don't care for how their handwriting looks. My oldest is odd enough. Now I keep thinking how his writing is going to look to a professor. It looks like he made up some handwriting of his own. Or maybe his mom said cursive is where you run all the letters together. And, then people pat us on our dumb little heads and say it's ok, Homeschoolers don't know any better.

[Mandylubug]

I just don't care for how their handwriting looks. My oldest is odd enough. Now I keep thinking how his writing is going to look to a professor. It looks like he made up some handwriting of his own. Or maybe his mom said cursive is where you run all the letters together. And, then people pat us on our dumb little heads and say it's ok, Homeschoolers don't know any better.

 

Well the good thing is most professors dont have you turn in written work anymore. Most work is typed. Atleast, in our recent experiences.

[klmama]

Zaner-Bloser.

[Walking-Iris]

Handwriting Without Tears is my favorite. I used HWT and a Zaner Bloser for cursive. Using both helped my ds to find his own cursive handwriting style. He sort of mixed his favorite from both styles.

[NoPlaceLikeHome]

Pentime and Universal Publishing both found at Rainbow Resources.

[Trilliums]

I just don't care for how their handwriting looks. My oldest is odd enough. Now I keep thinking how his writing is going to look to a professor. It looks like he made up some handwriting of his own. Or maybe his mom said cursive is where you run all the letters together. And, then people pat us on our dumb little heads and say it's ok, Homeschoolers don't know any better.

 

 

I can understand this. DS used Getty-Dubay Italic after trying several other programs. This was the only program that helped him move from printing to something looking more like cursive. Now, in grade 9, his writing does not look as italic-y as when he first learned it. Overall, I don't regret using the program. I think it is perfectly acceptable as cursive writing.

[Wabi Sabi]

I let my oldest pick what style of handwriting he thought looked nicest. He chose D'Nealian, we printed off a D'Nealian alphabet, and I had him practice his letters on basic kindergarten/first grade paper that I provided. No workbooks or programs used. His handwriting is lovely. I'm not sure whether the same approach will work with dd or if perhaps she'll want to chose her own style of writing.