Handwriting
Free cursive handwriting and manuscript
worksheets and fonts for children's practice or teaching the
D'Nealian alphabet and others.
About Teaching
Handwriting
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Rules for Good Cursive Handwriting
Many people do not know that 'Cursive' just means 'Joined-up'.
It is not the name of any particular style. A delightful page
your kids will like, too.
Handwriting
Help For Kids
Help a child master handwriting skills. A wealth of information,
advice and worksheets
for parents, teachers and occupational therapists.
How
to Teach Handwriting
There are three components to handwriting, whether a child is
learning to print or write in cursive: correct letter formation,
uniform letter size, and uniform slant.
Fonts
Educational
Fontware, Inc.
EFI makes and sells D'Nealian ®-style, Zaner-Bloser ©-style,
Handwriting Without Tears (TM)-style, Harcourt Brace ®-style,
Peterson Directed Handwriting ©-style, McDougal, Littell
©-style, Getty-Dubay Italic (TM), SSD, and Palmer style
handwriting fonts. Commercial site.
Jardotty
Windows true type font (.ttf) to download directly from this
link. Jardotty is a dotted alphabet good for creating your own
traceable handwriting worksheets. Created by Christopher Jarman.
(Repaired version for
Windows XP - Thank you, Jeff Walsh!)
Jarmon
Windows true type font (.ttf) to download directly from this
link. Christopher Jarman cursive handwriting font. The solid
line version of Jardotty.
Kids Fonts
Whether you're homeschooling, or are just tired of the prepackaged
worksheets available to early-childhood educators, Kids Fonts
is here to help!
Learning
Cursive Handwriting
Commercial site: Fontmenu.com Cursive Handwriting typeface offers
the possibility to create exercises that follow the guidelines
of the D'Nealian ® approach.
Learning
Curve BV / Learning Curve BV Dashed
Learning Curve BV contains two versions, one is plain and the
other dashed. This font also contains a set of dingbats that
helps with practicing elements of cursive writing.
Print
Clearly
Solid and dashed. From Blue Vinyl Fonts, which has lots of nice,
free fonts for other uses as well.
School
Fonts
Mac & Win. Commercial. Block Letters and Cursive Handwriting
typefaces enable any computer user to create exercises that follow
the guidelines of the D'Nealian ® or the Zaner-Bloser ®
approach and letter forming teaching techniques.
History of Handwriting
Ancient Scripts
Designed to give an introduction to writing systems, which hopefully
will tantalize the reader into searching for more information
on the web or in books and publications.
Left-handers
Tip: When creating worksheets for lefties,
put the samples across the top, not down the left side.
Anything
Left-Handed
We are a group of left-handed people providing products and information
to make life a bit easier for left-handers around the world and
campaigning to promote awareness, acceptance and empathy for
left-handers.
Coaching
Ergonomics - The Position Skills
Excellent page, with animated illustrations to help a right handed
tutor understand how to instruct a young left handed person.
DKL
Cursive and DKR Cursive
These fonts are patterned after the handwriting methods in the
workbooks "Cursive Writing Skills," by Diana Hanbury
King. Ms. King has produced both a Right-handed Edition and a
Left-handed Edition.
The
Left-Handed Child in a Right-Handed World
Tips on how to figure out if a child is left handed and how to
teach him how to write. By Clinton Hackney, Ed. D., Language
Arts Consultant, Zaner-Bloser.
Lefty's
An online store for things designed for left-handed folks, such
as left-handed scissors.
Problems &
Solutions
Accommodations and Modifications for Students with Handwriting Problems and/or
Dysgraphia
Many students struggle to produce neat, expressive written work,
whether or not they have accompanying physical or cognitive difficulties.
They may learn much less from an assignment because they must
focus on writing mechanics instead of content.
Dysgraphia
Often, dysgraphia is misunderstood. Parents and teachers may
think you are lazy or that you don't care about neatness. This
means you have to try even harder to show that you do care.
Handwriting Club
Using Sensory Integration Strategies to Improve Handwriting.
Students with difficulties in sensory processing, sensory awareness,
and/or perceptual skills usually have handwriting problems.
Pocket Full of Therapy
Sells writing paper and graph paper with raised lines so that
sensory learners can "feel" their way along as the
write.
Worksheets
ACME Label Maker
If your child can read capital letters, you can make custom labels
here, transfer to your own document, print on special "sticker"
paper, and cut out to stick on things.
Addressing Envelopes Practice
Print out these envelopes and stamps to use to practice addressing
and stamping envelopes correctly.
The Amazing - Incredible Handwriting Worksheet Maker
Allows you to formulate a worksheet with your child's name or
a short sentence in any of 5 fonts, manuscript or italic.
Build a Handwriting Activity
Create your own worksheet with this form from EdHelper. Supports
printing, cursive and D'Nealian.
Callirobics
Commercial site. Handwriting exercises to music to improve small-muscle
skills and eye-hand coordination. Good for aural learners young
and old.
D'Nealian alphabet worksheets
Learn and practice manuscript handwriting featuring fun coloring page images. These are suitable for preschool, kindergarten and early elementary.
Donna Young's Handwriting Paper
A series of graded lined paper .pdf files with a wide variety
of uses for free writing practice. Some have space at the top
for a picture.
Jan Brett's Alphabet Line Bulletin Board Set
Jan has such a charming set of alphabet posters, you'll want
them to decorate your room. They are in traditional, cursive
and modern manuscript.
Free Handwriting Worksheet
Printable worksheets from ABC Teach.
Getty-Dubay Italic Handwriting
Sample worksheets in Acrobat format. Information on ordering
the whole series.
Handwriting For Kids
Each lesson is featured on its own page, and kids are shown in
simple steps how to write the numbers, letters, and sentences.
Kids can trace uppercase and lowercase letters, and even blank
sheets are provided for kids to practice more before their next
lessons.
Handwriting Practice Sheets
These sheets may be printed and reproduced by parents, guardians,
and teachers for home or classroom use. Donna Young's collection.
Handwriting Sample Lessons
Zaner-Blosser. The importance of choosing an effective handwriting
curriculum cannot be underestimated. It's a choice that will
shape a child's habits and abilities for life.
Handwriting Worksheets
Some pretty basic worksheets for beginning printers. One in Zaner
Bloser font.
Manuscript Hand Writing
Letter introduction goes along with the book, Teach
Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons. On Donna Young's
site.
The Physical Language Workout Space
This offers a game-like challenge for the student. Level one
presents a link to the second level. The goal is gross motor
patterning of the correct letter building process including a
rhythm for the movement sequence. For those who don't mind fingerprints
on their computer monitor.
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