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Are you wanting to teach cursive writing to your kids? In my opinion, handwriting is still so important even in this digital age. We included cursive writing in our homeschool because writing things down helps so much in helping remember and recall information. We wanted our daughter to know print and cursive, so she would have two options to choose from. Here are cursive handwriting resources for elementary.
And did you know that some children who struggle with writing their letters in print have much more success with cursive. Especially children with dysgraphia.
Homeschool Cursive Handwriting Resources for Elementary Learners
I recently found a simple frugal resource for teaching the basics of cursive writing to your young learners. It is called Success With Contemporary Cursive by Scholastic. It addresses all 26 letters of the alphabet with simple to follow directions.
This workbook is aimed at 2nd to 4th graders but the practice pages for each letter could be used for any aged child.
Success With Contemporary Cursive by Scholastic is a 48 page activity workbook that features:
- Step by step letter formation pages
- Instructions and practice for both upper and lower case letters
- Words, sentences to copy for each letter
- Charts which show the 26 letters for both upper and lower case
- Practice in writing numbers in cursive
- Short paragraphs of copywork
- Lined paper for practice
This workbook gives easy to follow instructions for showing your student how to form each letter.
To teach each letter, there are arrows showing where to start the letter formation as well as what to do next. I did find that the arrows were a bit light in print, so I would suggest either making these arrows darker or showing your student how to form each letter by demonstrating it.
They also include a number of interesting short stories to copy. These are on the solar system, planets and more.
Purchasing Success with Contemporary Cursive
If you are looking for a simple guide and workbook for teaching cursive, my family recommends Success With Contemporary Cursive by Scholastic. For more information or to get your copy, click here.
More Cursive Resources
Homeschool Handwriting Resources – Even in this digital age, being able to clearly handwrite and read handwriting is an important skill. Most public schools no longer teach cursive. So how will kids learn to sign their name? How will they read things like their grandparents letters, old documents, etc.? This collection of Homeschool Handwriting Resources is designed to help you teach your children to legibly write in print or cursive.
Everything You Need to Know About Handwriting Without Tears – Are you looking for a way to teach handwriting to your little one? Maybe you are looking for a cursive writing curriculum? Either way, you should check out all that Handwriting Without Tears has to offer! This was my go to resource with all 3 of my kids and now my grandson is using it for cursive.
Conquering Cursive Handwriting Workbooks for Your Homeschool – is a simple, yet effective handwriting curriculum that doesn’t bother with the distractions of cutesy pictures or difficult sentences to copy. This is a handwriting workbook that isn’t babyish! Not only that, it quickly reviews letter placement and all manuscript letters before moving into cursive.
~ Originally posted February 2018; Written by Betsy blogs at BJ’s Homeschool, about the early years, high school & college and wrote – Homeschooling High School with College in Mind.
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