treestarfae Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 Looking for decent workbooks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boscopup Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 Pentime (available at Rainbow Resource) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halcyon Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 I subscribe to teacherfilebox and I like their worksheets, but your child should already know the basics before beginning. Wait, they might have an earlier workbook than the one we are using. They're Evan moor books fwiw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aras Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 We have been using Zaner Bloser for a few months now and we really like it. I looked at Handwriting with out Tears and I didn't like the look of the cursive. The ZB program assumes you don't know any cursive so it starts with loops and curves, goes into single letters, then joining letters. Hope that helps :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alef Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 I love the Pictures in Cursive books from Queens homeschool, they combine cursive with picture study and are truly beautiful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wapiti Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 I like the Diana Hanbury King cursive workbooks (for right handed and left handed; I think I got them from Book Depository) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coffeegal Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 Pentime (available at Rainbow Resource) :iagree: I love Pentime Penmanship! :hurray: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fourcatmom Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 We use Pentime as well. Since the girls are older, I am going to start requiring some of their work in cursive after the first of the year but right now if they do any work for the week in cursive they get to skip the cursive book on Fridays. My kids know how to do it but resist it heavily! :huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duckens Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 I don't know if it's the best cursive workbook, but it's the best one for us. Handwriting: Cursive There are: --26 pages of learning each letter (one page/letter) --26 pages words starting with each letter an, and, animals, April big, boy, babble, baboon can, candy, cool, countw --26 pages of alliterative sentences. Arctic animals act amusingly. Big baboons break balloons. Cool crocodiles count coconuts. Other things we do: 1) Before writing in the book, we write on the whiteboard to practice the letters 3-5 times before writing in the book. 2) We are doing the letters out of order. We are starting with the easier letters. So far we have done: a, n, d, p, r, o g, t. 3) We have done a few of the words (not pages) in section 2. We have done: an, and, but not animals, April do, dog, but not dandelions, donuts. pan, but not pet, pick, paper. I have no trouble assigning just a part of a page to be done. 4) I have a post-it in the front of the book to map out the next several lessons: t, rat, e, eat, near, pet, rear, s, see. I cross them off as dd6 completes them. 5)Once we complete this book, I have these two next: Cursive Writing: Jokes and Riddles Cursive Writing: Inspirational Quotes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellalarella Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 I love the Pictures in Cursive books from Queens homeschool, they combine cursive with picture study and are truly beautiful. I like those, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helena Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 I love the Pictures in Cursive books from Queens homeschool, they combine cursive with picture study and are truly beautiful. We started with Zaner Bloser, then moved on to Pictures in Cursive ( :001_wub: ), and now we're working through the Spencerian booklets. Everyone loved/loves all three. We think Spencerian is fantastic! It's easy enough for a kid and elegant enough to get you through the rest of your life. I figure at the very least it'll add beauty and finesse to the Zaner Bloser look. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strange_girl Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 Cursive was the one thing DD begged to do this year, and I looked at a few different programs. In the end, we chose Cheerful Cursive, and it has really been wonderful. She loves to do it, and her cursive handwriting is beginning to really be beautiful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurelia Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 Wacky Sentences. Best used once the child knows how to form the letters. Goes from tracing and copying a cursive model to writing in cursive from a manuscript model, with lots of practice. We used The Joy of Handwriting to learn the letters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3 Only Children Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 We use Can Do Cursive from handwriting without tears. It is written for older children and is an inexpensive workbook. It includes Greek, Latin and a writers section. For ease of use we practice on the whiteboard and write the letters as big as are comfortable at first. Excellent book! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bakpak Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 I saw the New American Cursive recommended on here before and picked it up on a whim this summer. About a month later my almost 4-yr-old asked to learn cursive out the blue and I was happy I had a book handy! She's really enjoying it so far, including the little meercat mascot. There's lots of tracing, so perfect for her new skills. She's been asking to do it all the time lately. Not all the letters are how I learned them 30+ years ago, but they're mostly how I do cursive NOW, which is interesting. A little less flair, little more practical, and a little more of a mix between Print and Cursive for a few of the capital letters. It's very clean and easy for my little one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treestarfae Posted September 30, 2013 Author Share Posted September 30, 2013 I saw the New American Cursive recommended on here before and picked it up on a whim this summer. About a month later my almost 4-yr-old asked to learn cursive out the blue and I was happy I had a book handy! She's really enjoying it so far, including the little meercat mascot. There's lots of tracing, so perfect for her new skills. She's been asking to do it all the time lately. Not all the letters are how I learned them 30+ years ago, but they're mostly how I do cursive NOW, which is interesting. A little less flair, little more practical, and a little more of a mix between Print and Cursive for a few of the capital letters. It's very clean and easy for my little one. I ordered this because of the meerkat coolness. Will check out others too. :) Thanks so much everyone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bakpak Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 I love the Pictures in Cursive books from Queens homeschool, they combine cursive with picture study and are truly beautiful. This one looks super cool, and I might create something similar with some art books & devising my own worksheets in cursive. I've printed my own pages before and it's worked out really well. If it had tracing I would have bought it, but it was all copy work. Thanks for everyone posting resources. I ended up poking around the various sites and was super excited to see writing workbooks in Spanish! I hadn't considered such a thing before. I ended up ordering HWT's Letras y numeros para mi for DD4, which is print, not cursive. I've looked at this series in English before but thought it didn't have enough tracing to appeal to her perfectionist/tentative tendencies, but I think she's easing out of her insecurities given her excitement with the cursive. I hope she's as excited about the Spanish as I am! If not, it can sit on the shelf for a few more months :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acadie Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 Cursive Connections, available at Rainbow Resource, worked really well for us. I liked the emphasis on connections between letters, because that often trips kids up. We did Modern Style Book A in 3rd grade and Book B in 4th, and people have been complimenting dd11's cursive ever since. Amy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildcat Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 Pentime (available at Rainbow Resource) We also loved Pentime. We used several levels and enjoyed all the practice stories! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrissySC Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 StartWrite software - you can copy and paste anything. I love this. I can add memorization items and copywork from across the subject content. It has the options to add dots and arrows for letter formation, and you can even add graphics. I think this is a must when you conisder the value of being able to incorporate penmanship into another subject area entirely. It means less work for the educator. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caviar Posted May 5, 2014 Share Posted May 5, 2014 I've been looking at Startwrite as it is so customizable. I think I'll like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Academy Posted May 5, 2014 Share Posted May 5, 2014 We're liking LOE's cursive workbook so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LivingHope Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 I really like Simply Charlotte Mason's Print to Cursive: Proverbs followed by the Hymns in Prose copybook. http://simplycharlottemason.com/store/product-category/product-language-arts/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerileanne99 Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 So I know it is an old thread, but timely. My dd is very, very insistent upon learning to write in cursive as she considers it to be 'fancy.' I have been puting her off because I wanted to make sure she was printing really well, but I cannot really use that as an excuse anymore. I am thinking of ordering the Handwriting Without Tears cursive book, but in Spanish to keep it as separate as possible for awhile. Has anybody used this? http://shopping.hwtears.com/product/EC/HWT ETA: Bakpak, did you end up using the HoT printing program in Spanish? What did you think of the Spanish itself? Mostly vocabulary, or was it helpful? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smudge Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 My girls have really enjoyed HWOT, my 2nd grader is coming along nicely. The younger DD will start cursive once she finishes the current manuscript book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMD Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 I really like Simply Charlotte Mason's Print to Cursive: Proverbs followed by the Hymns in Prose copybook. http://simplycharlottemason.com/store/product-category/product-language-arts/ We started with this and liked it. I love the Pictures in Cursive books from Queens homeschool, they combine cursive with picture study and are truly beautiful. Moved on to these and love them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grantmeawish Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 Pentime Quick, inexpensive, effective Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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