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Daily Handwriting Practice is based on the premise that frequent, focused practice leads to mastery of the handwriting forms practiced. Students practice writing letters, words, and sentences.
Incorporated into the writing exercises in Daily Handwriting Practice, Traditional Manuscript, Traditional Cursive or Contemporary Cursive are many other basic areas of learning important to developing minds.
Daily Handwriting Practice, Traditional Manuscript example: "The gray ant is in third place," they are reinforcing their understanding of colors and ordinal numbers. Students write letters, words, and sentences about a variety of content area topics appropriate for the classroom. Monday through Thursday, the weekly subjects for writing exercises range from nutrition to our solar system, pets to vehicles. On Friday, a full-page exercise draws the topic to a close by reviewing what was learned earlier that week. This book is a useful and effective teaching tool because: Each letter is introduced and practiced before students are asked to use it. Practice includes the following important, vocabulary words: color words, number words, cardinal and ordinal, verbs, animal names, days of the week and months, sports, position words, family members. Curriculum topics addressed include:
nutrition , the solar system, the layers of the earth, recycling, fractions, the continents, geometric, shapes, money, energy. Skills reinforced that help keep handwriting legible include: correct letter formation, letter placement, spacing between letters, and spacing between words. When students complete this book, they will take away a self-made learning tool, because the final four weeks of practice assemble into an Alphabet Book about vehicles. Engaging line art illustrations accompany every exercise. All 112 pages are reproducible for classroom use and perforated for easy removal.
Daily Handwriting Practice, Traditional Cursive example: "What is work," students learn about simple tools and the physics applied in using them. Students write letters, words, and sentences about a variety of content area topics appropriate for the classroom. Monday through Thursday, the weekly subjects for writing exercises range from famous inventors to famous quotations, amazing hunters to the water cycle. On Friday, a full-page exercise draws the topic to a close by reviewing what was learned earlier that week. This book is a useful and effective teaching tool because: Each letter is introduced and practiced before students are asked to use it. Curriculum topics addressed include: the alphabet, unusual animals, math, capital letter, owls as hunters, rhyming words, months of the year, whales, rivers of the world, days of the week, the water cycle, world alphabets, geography, facts, synonyms, nonsense rhymes, the seven continents, color words, alliteration insects, weather, beavers, U.S. presidents, simple machines, famous quotations, unusual plants. Native American tribe, math ,rhyming words, sports around the world, Kenya, prefixes and suffixes, candy around the world, games around the world. Skills reinforced that help keep handwriting legible include: correct letter formation, letter placement, spacing between letters, and spacing between words. When students complete this book, they will take away a self-made learning tool, because the final four weeks of practice assemble into an Alphabet Book about insects. Engaging line art illustrations highlight various exercises. All 112 pages are reproducible for classroom use and perforated for easy removal.
Daily Handwriting Practice, Traditional Manuscript example: “The pizza is divided into fourths,” they are reinforcing their understanding of fractions and ordinal numbers. Students write letters, words, and sentences about a variety of content-area topics appropriate for the primary classroom.
Monday through Thursday, the weekly subjects for writing exercises include nutrition, our solar system, pets, and vehicles. On Friday, a full-page exercise draws the topic to a close by reviewing what was learned earlier that week. This book is a useful and effective teaching tool because each letter is introduced and practiced before students are asked to use it.
Practice includes the following important vocabulary words:
- color words
- number words
- days of the week and months
- position words
- sports
- family members
Curriculum topics addressed include:
- nutrition
- the solar system
- the layers of the Earth
- recycling
- fractions
- the continents
- geometric shapes
- money
- energy
Skills reinforced that help keep handwriting legible include:
- correct letter formation
- letter placement
- spacing between letters
- spacing between words
Contrary to popular belief in today’s tech-centered world, students still need to learn how to form letters properly.