Product Description

Incorporated into the writing exercises in Daily Handwriting Practice, Traditional Manuscript, are many other basic areas of learning important to developing minds. For example, as students learn to clearly write, "The gray ant is in third place," they are reinforcing their understanding of colors and ordinal numbers.

Students write letters, words, and sentences about a variety of content area topics appropriate for the primary classroom. Monday through Thursday, the weekly subjects for writing exercises range from nutrition to our solar system, pets to vehicles. On Friday, a full-page exercise draws the topic to a close by reviewing what was learned earlier that week.

This book is a useful and effective teaching tool because:

Each letter is introduced and practiced before students are asked to use it.

Practice includes the following important vocabulary words: colorwords

number words

cardinal and ordinal verbs

animal names days of the week and months sports

position words family members

Curriculum topics addressed include: nutrition , the solar system, the layers of the earth,recycling fractions, the continents geometric shapes,money, energy

Skills reinforced that help keep handwriting legible include: correct letter formation, letter placement, spacing between letters, and spacing between words.

When students complete this book, they will take away a self-made learning tool, because the final four weeks of practice assemble into an Alphabet Book about vehicles.

Engaging line art illustrations accompany every exercise. All 112 pages are reproducible for classroom use and perforated for easy removal. $14.95 each.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #158928 in Books
• Brand: EVAN-MOOR
• Published on: 2000-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 3.00 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781557997531
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

Excellent tool for kids who hate to write!
I found this book to be an excellent tool for my 1st grade son to practice his handwriting. He absolutely hates writing, and has a bad habit of forming letters the lazy way. We're using this book to work on letters one at a time, and have found the daily layouts to be especially useful for this. Each Friday portion has an extra long portion to complete, which is a good review for the week's letters. After a few weeks, he is conscious of forming his letters better, and his writing is more legible. I plan to buy more books for my younger children to help them out too.

Practice makes perfect!
This book delivers exactly what it proposes: daily handwriting practice. The easy to use format gives teachers a product that is practical and economical. By copying the pages back-to-back, you use one sheet of paper for a week's worth of work. The text provided allows for reinforcement of many concepts across the curriculum. The illustrations are clear, pertinent, and can be used with students of any age.

I use this book with my second grade students. They look forward to each week, and complete these willingly. We are perfecting our manuscript handwriting in preparation for cursive. I would reccomend any style of the handwriting books by this author.

Finally found a handwriting curriculum my wife likes!
Personally, I couldn't really tell the difference, other than I know she prefers teaching handwriting using more traditional styles. Whatever the reason, long after we settled on other curriculum choices (for more info, go to my blogs from my member page) my wife wasn't happy with any of the handwriting curricula we used.

It took us ten years and countless tries before we finally found the Evan-Moor Daily Practice Series, Traditional Manuscript and Traditional Cursive. It is simple and effective.