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Will I have to buy 2 workbooks for my 2 children (9 and 10) learning cursive at the same time? I know the teacher’s manual can be copied, but do I need to buy 2 books or just the one $20.00 set?
Also, I have phonogram cards from Phonics Made Plain, so I assume I don’t need to get theirs? Seems redundant and possibly confusing.
Thanks, Rachel
The phonogram cards are in cursive, so I would recommend that you get them or make your own. They are very useful for learning to read cursive. We drilled these the same as the print ones. We play matching games w/ our print and cursive cards.
The set is the small teacher’s manual with a set of masters for copying as many as you need. There isn’t a workbook for students.
~Christie
I used this with my dd at 6 and she has beautiful penmanship. She’s 9 now. For ds6, we have used Pencil Pete software and startwrite pages instead. He loved Pencil Pete and I prefer hitting print to making copies. He has lovely penmanship, too.
I think Cursive First is great, but Pencil Pete is as well and PP is more self directed.
You don’t copy the teacher’s manual – you copy the practice sheets – so you only need the one set. I don’t think you need to get the phonogram cards.
From their site – with me adding the bold
“This package contains a teacher’s manual, practice sheets, and cursive phonogram cards. The practice sheets can be copied as needed for all the students in your family or classroom. Cursive First can be used with a beginner just learning how to write or with an older student who is transitioning to cursive.”
btw – I used Cursive First last year, and I’m not pleased with the results – I’ve recently started my son with “Peterson Directed Handwriting” (using their program to teach cursive before manuscript). I like how this is going so far better…
Just need some advice, pointers, and a slight vent 🙂 This is more realated to cursive in general and not the program. I really didn’t see a need to make a new topic.
I taught my oldest cursive in kindy (abeka), then last year he went to school and now he only prints. I was looking back through his Kindy work and remembered how nice he use to do cursive. His handwriting now is sloppy. I think I should just move on and do cursive next year, or should I stick it out with the printing until it improves? Really his handwriting in kindy was better than it is now!
Also, I think I should just start my 4yo on cursive. He will be 5 in April and start gentle kindy around Aug/Sept. He is learning to print his name now but has little interest.
I would go back to the cursive – and work with him slowly with it, maybe using the program he used before? Hopefully it will “come back” to him if you work on it.
I would scream too!
I always recommend teaching cursive first. I’d suggest backing up and starting from scratch if need be. I’d probably focus on it for a couple of weeks (a couple of short sessions per day) and see if that would help. I used Cursive First w/ dd9 at about age 5 or 6 and she has beautiful penmanship. I was completely pleased with it. However, for dd6, I wanted a bit more self-directed and we used Pencil Pete software (also inexpensive) and he, too, has beautiful penmanship. Now, ds6 copies 1 sentence per day from the Queen’s Pictures in Cursive and dd9 writes in her Commonplace book weekly (quotes/passages of her choice.)
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