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Handwriting and Alphabet Copy Book

Free Alphabet Copywork 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

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.

Copywork Titles Letter Formation Size Italic & Manuscript Printing Italic & Manuscript Cursive Australian & American Spelling Option

Blinky Bill Alphabet Copybook
Free Download

Large Font ✓   ✓  ✓
Classic Copywork Beatrix Potter Large Font
Classic Copywork Mother Goose Large to Medium Font ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Classic Copywork Garden Verse Small Font ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Classic Copywork Aesop's Fables Small Font ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Downunder Copywork 1 Medium Font ✓  ✓   
Downunder Copywork 2

Medium to small

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Downunder Copywork 3 Small   ✓   

Teaching Handwriting, Spelling and Grammar. Charlotte Mason Style.

Victorian child handwriting

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

Teaching handwriting
Steps in teaching handwriting
Handwriting styles-what font should I use?
Skills that lead to mastering writing.
Copywork
Dictation
Spelling
Grammar
Charlotte Mason’s grammar lessons

Instant download ebook $2.95 AUD

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.

font styles used in australia and new zealand