Teaching Cursive

I have been teaching my dd cursive this year, using New American Cursive. That was mostly a style decision, though, really you can use any kind of cursive that you like the style of really. I have continued to have her do print copywork several times each week as we have worked through the workbook to learn all of the cursive letters. To my mind, copywork is about more than handwriting, it is also about internalizing good grammar, good spelling, and good writing style and I didn’t want her to miss out on that. (She also likes doing copywork, so it’s not a struggle to get her to do it.) We spend not more than 5 minutes on cursive each day, and perhaps 10 minutes more on her print copywork (and we don’t do them next to each other in our schedule) so for her I don’t feel like this is too much. We are just about done with the workbook, once we do I will start having her transition gradually to using cursive for her copywork and then eventually all her other written work as she gets more and more comfortable with it.

HTH some,

Jen

I switched my dd from HWT to D’Nealian Classical Cursive. I liked the way CC taught the forming of letters. After she finishes CC, she’ll start PP D’nealian cursive copyowrk practice.

I had them do 3 days of CC cursive learning and one day of manuscript copywork.

HTH