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Cursive practice

Cursive, taught as a craft

Cursive practice teaches handwriting in order: the four basic strokes, letters grouped by the stroke that begins them, the joins between letters, then words and sentences, including your own.

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A table with a tabbed notebook, a page of number facts, a ruler, coins, a glue stick and scissors.

Who it is for

Classroom teachers

A page for today's letters or joins in minutes, with the Grade 3 to 8 Language code where it applies.

Learning Support Teachers

The same page with larger lines, fewer items or more tracing, from the student's profile.

Around the lesson

Cursive, taught as a craft

Cursive practice teaches handwriting in order: the four basic strokes, letters grouped by the stroke that begins them, the joins between letters, then words and sentences, including your own.

Every item has a model with its starting dot, a copy to trace, a line to copy on and a line to write on alone.

  1. The four basic strokes
  2. Letters, grouped by the stroke that begins them
  3. The joins between letters
  4. Words and sentences, including your own

What a page can practise

  • Warm-up strokes

    The undercurve, the downcurve, the overcurve and the slant.

  • A letter family or one letter

    Lowercase letters in five families, and capitals in four.

  • Joins

    Five kinds of join, each with letter pairs and short words.

  • Words and sentences

    Canadian word lists and sentences, or your own words.

  • Ruled lines in four sizes

    Headline, dashed midline and baseline, drawn by the page.

  • A teacher page

    The order the letters are taught in and the cues to say aloud.

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