Homeschooling Downunder
Home Education Resources
for Australia and New Zealand
that save you time, money and stress.

PRODUCT LIST

Copywork & Handwriting

Teaching Handwriting CM Style

Classic Copywork Set

Beatrix Potter Copywork

Mother Goose Copywork

Garden Verse Copywork

Aesop's Fables Copywork

Downunder Copywork Series

Language Arts Lessons

Downunder Dictation

English Language Lessons

Primary Language lessons

Intermediate Language Lessons

Any Novel Novel Guide

Australian Unit Study

Australian Book Traveller

 

Handwriting and Alphabet Copy Book

Are you just starting to teach your child handwriting? Well this free alphabet copy book will be a delightful edition to your handwriting tool chest.

 

Free Download Blinky Bill Alphabet Copy Book

Download your free Blinky Bill Alphabet Copy Book Manuscript Print

Download your free Blinky Bill Alphabet Copy Book Italics Print

Download your free Blinky Bill Alphabet Copy Book Manuscript Cursive

Download your free Blinky Bill Alphabet Copy Book Italics Cursive

Teaching Handwriting

Follow this link for Advice on Choosing A Handwriting Font

Cursive First

Cursive writing means joining the letters together. In the days of inkwells and feather quills children were taught to write a cursive script as their initial writing experience. Children from the age of six were able to manage this handwriting script. When pencils became readily available many schools switched over to ball and stick printing because for it was thought that this style is much easier for a child to learn.

Advocates of teaching cursive first believe that introducing printing as the initial handwriting script caused a range of other problems. These included less supervision when teaching cursive with some students never learning it properly, B and D confusion and other reading and writing problems because special sequences are lost with printing and fatigue in writing due to the disconnected strokes of letters.

If you would like to teach Cursive First then I can recommend our Blinky Bill Alphabet Copywork book for letters.  Choose either our manuscript cursive font or manuscript italics font.  When beginning copywork our Beatrix Potter Classic Copywork and Mother Goose Classic Copywork are also suitable as they have tracing and copywork exercises.

Get Your Child Writing Daily!

After you finish teaching the basics of handwriting what's next !

COPYWORK, LOTS AND LOTS OF COPYWORK.

I had been using newsagent handwriting books because they were so easy to follow but now I looked at the text and realised it was often boring or ridiculous sentences that they were copying. I then heard about Charlotte Mason and quality copywork-I was an instant convert.

Homeschooling Downunder Resources

Our handwriting products are available in both italics and manuscript font styles. You will find them to be very helpful additions to your handwriting tool chest.

Teaching Handwriting, Spelling and Grammar. Charlotte Mason Style.

This 25 page ebook shows you how to teach handwriting from first letters to mastering handwriting. Using the ideas gleaned from Charlotte Mason and Ruth Beechick we have put together a helpful resource that you can begin using immediately.

Table of Content

For simplier preschool activity pages visit Shirley's Preschool Activities

Here is another Alphabet handwriting practice book in a ball and stick font.

Our copywork/handwriting resources are available in; ball and stick font, foundation font (we use the NSW version), foundation cursive and foundation cursive looped (advanced cursive). Here is a sample font chart.

Below you can see the different fonts used in Australia and New Zealand. If you wish to purchase these fonts visit School Fonts.