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Italics: Beautiful Handwriting for Children

by Penny Gardner Author

(From Amazon): Penny Gardner's new book is just what parents and teachers using the Charlotte Mason Approach to Education have been waiting for! It relates what Charlotte Mason said about italic handwriting and copy work, or transcription, and makes it easy to teach and use in the home and classroom. From the introduction to Italics, Beautiful Handwriting for Children: Charlotte Mason, a British educator who lived from 1842-1923, recommended teaching children Italic handwriting. She wrote: "Some years ago I heard of a lady who was elaborating, by means of the study of old Italian and other manuscripts, a 'system of beautiful handwriting' which could be taught to children. [This is] a style of writing which is pleasant to acquire because it is beautiful to behold. It is surprising how quickly young children, even those already confirmed in 'ugly' writing, take to this 'new handwriting.'" (Home Education, p. 235-236) Features… Italic handwriting instruction within a 'Charlotte Mason' framework. Suggestions for writing-readiness activities. Overview of steps in teaching handwriting to children. May be used at all grade levels—elementary through high school. Lessons and practice in Basic Italics and Cursive Italics. Articles on copy work. Models in handwritten basic and cursive italics for children to copy. Quotes to transcribe into basic or cursive italics. Variations on copy work--ideas to make it more challenging and instructive. 48-page consumable workbook.

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Additional Details

Resource Type
Book
ISBN
1576361500
Print Status
In Print
Lessons
27
Pages
48
Publisher
Penny Gardner
Copyright
2003

Lessons

  • 1 Basic: i, j, l
  • 2 Basic: v, w
  • 3 Basic: z
  • 4 Basic: k, x
  • 5 Basic: n
  • 6 Basic: m, h, r
  • 7 Basic: b, p
  • 7a Practice
  • 8 Basic: u, y
  • 9 Basic: f, t
  • 10 Basic: a
  • 11 Basic: d, g, q, 9
  • 12 Basic: o, e
  • 12a Practice
  • 13 Basic: c, s
  • 14 Basic Italic Alphabet and Capital Letters
  • 14a Practice
  • 15 Cursive: The Cursive Italics Alphabet
  • 16 Cursive: The Cursive Italics Alphabet, continued
  • 17 Cursive: Curved Joins
  • 18 Cursive: Sharp Joins
  • 19 Cursive: Start-back Joins
  • 20 Cursive: Horizontal Joins and Some Optional Joins
  • 21 Cursive: Diagonal into Horizontal Joins
  • 22 Cursive: Joining Out of a 2-Stroke 'e' and Some Optional Joins
  • 23 Cursive: Letters That Are Never Joined
  • 24 Cursive: Capitals in Cursive Italic

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