When to start copywork in cursive?

[ExcitedMama]

DS is 7 and finishing up 1st grade. He is writing really well and I was thinking about starting to teach him cursive this summer or fall. I am wondering when he would be ready for copywork in cursive? Like for ELTL I love having the student book for him to write in for his copywork and I could order it in manuscript or cursive. I have no idea when he would be ready to start doing his copywork in cursive once he gets started.

[HomeAgain]

What we did was follow the same progression as learning to print.  He'd copy a letter at first, and then a word, and finally we moved up to sentences when he was able to write fluently.  About the same time he learned to copy sentences I introduced cursive letter copywork.  It's the end of first grade and he does most of his copywork/dictation in print, but spends time each day learning how to form letters and write words in cursive.  I figure we'll get to sentences next year, when he's ready to move on to more free writing in print.  By 3rd everything will be in cursive.

[mamamoose]

We float back and forth. I just bought a silly sentences copywork and it has manuscript as well as cursive so she does a sentence of each each day--the same sentence. This way she can read t and refer to it.

[MyLife]

My son wanted to learn cursive the summer between his K and 1 year, so I bought Pentime. He learned quickly. Now, in first grade, he does his WWE copywork in cursive. I re-write the copywork in cursive for a model. He practices reading it first then copying. He prints on all his worksheets, notebooks, etc. I will require more work to be completed in cursive next school year (says the mom who NEVER writes in cursive 😂)

[EKT]

We did something very similar to HomeAgain. Here's what we did, which worked well for us: I taught my older daughter cursive in second grade, as a separate subject. (So, she would practice cursive during her cursive lesson only; all her other school subjects were still written in print.) Then, as soon as we formally finished the cursive curriculum, I had her do all her schoolwork in cursive from that point forward. (She was really eager to write cursive exclusively, so this was a fun/smooth transition.)

 

If you teach your son cursive over the summer, he could then start the cursive copywork book in the fall. (In other words, I would order the book in cursive, but work up to using it. Our cursive program taught cursive letter by letter, slowly adding words and then sentences.)