Handwriting programs

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  • April 28, 2011 at 3:54 pm
    calliemarie
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    Hi all!

    I know we discussed this not long ago but I thought I’d mention it again as my wheels have been turning on the subject. I’ve investigated Peterson Directed Handwriting and learned quite a lot! While their website is completely unfriendly (they said they’re working on a relaunch 🙂 if you email/call Randy Nelson he will talk to you at length and share links to videos and presentations that help you understand everything better.

    So I wanted to post and again and see who all has used Peterson Directed Handwriting? Does anyone know how it differs/compares to Cursive First? I’ve heard both options spoken of highly. I feel good about the methods behind PDH but I’m hoping to compare Cursive First. I’m not able to glean as much information from the CF website and haven’t had the opportunity to see it in person.

    I’m hoping to start teaching cursive as I’m liking the thoughts on why starting with that can be so beneficial.

    Thanks!

    Callie

    April 28, 2011 at 6:21 pm
    suzukimom
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    Hi Callie.

    I started with Cursive First (and added Pencil Pete) – then we switched to Peterson Directed.  I like how Peterson Directed works to get the letters into your muscle memory, and that for cursive, 18 (I think) of the 26 lower case letters are made with 4 basic strokes, and the few others have jsut slight variations of the strokes.  And with their cursive, there is a “print” (ie, unjoined letters) that they can use while they are still getting used to writing that is otherwise identical to the joined cursive.  (this is different from the manuscript print option).

    Cursive First was fairly good too, but went the tracing route to start, and we jsut weren’t getting the results I wanted.  I know there are others on here that like it.   Oh, and Cursive First was designed to go with their Spelling to Write and Read, so I think the letters are done in the order of their reading program instead of what is easiest.  Cursive first uses the clock face to describe how to make letters, so your child should be familiar with where the numbers are on an analog clock.

     

    Hope this helps!

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