This activity workbook provides a creative and motivating format for learning manuscript writing. Good cursive writing comes with practice. These pages offer a sequential program of development and practice with examples for guidance. Each letter is introduced with numbered, step-by-step directions for forming the letter. Each page provides additional space for practice.
A letter-perfect way to teach your students to write. Each book features comprehensive, stroke-by-stroke, self-directed exercises with ample practice space provided. Numbered arrows show the correct formation of all letters and numbers, as well as methods of connecting cursive letters.
The 30 student pages in this book provide easy-to-follow, stroke-by-stroke patterns for forming each letter of the alphabet and the ten digits: 27 pages of letters 3 pages of digits. The upper portion of each letter page introduces the capital letter while the lower portion of the page introduces the small letter. Pages may be cut in half and either the capital or small letter introduced independently. Letters and digits may be introduced in any order. Pages are conveniently arranged in alphabetical order with digit pages at the end of the books. The worksheets in this book are self-directing and ideal for both group writing sessions and for independent use. Practice space provided for each letter and for the digits is ample to challenge an eager young writer, but not so much that the blank lines pose an overwhelming task. Pages are useful for introductory activities, for practice, and for review.
Civil rights activist Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987) developed a citizenship education program that enabled tens of thousands of African Americans to register to vote and to link the power of the ballot to concrete strategies for individual and communal empowerment. Clark, who began her own teaching career in 1916, grounded her approach in the philosophy and practice of southern black activist educators in the decades leading up to the 1950s and 1960s, and then trained a committed cadre of grassroots black women to lead this literacy revolution in community stores, beauty shops, and churches throughout the South. In this engaging biography, Katherine Charron tells the story of Clark, from her coming of age in the South Carolina lowcountry to her activism with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in the movement's heyday. The enhanced electronic version of the book draws from archives, libraries, and the author's personal collection and includes nearly 100 letters, documents, photographs, newspaper articles, and interview excerpts, embedding each in the text where it will be most meaningful. Featuring more than 60 audio clips (more than 2.5 hours total) from oral history interviews with 15 individuals, including Clark herself, the enhanced e-book redefines the idea of the "talking book." Watch the video below to see a demonstration of the enhanced ebook:
This book in the popular Four Square series provides a personal coach for students to help them write. Included are 13 themed units designed to meet the interests and abilities of writers in grades 7-9. Each unit brings the prewriting through art, word association, questions, poetry, planning and composition of prose. The exercises will help students learn to be less fearful of writing assignments and actually make them fun! The topics are personal ones young writers will enjoy: themselves, their families and friends, their favorite places to go and things to do, etc.
A fun guidebook for adults looking to relearn the beautiful art of cursive handwriting. In this type, tap and swipe world, you have few opportunities to write in cursive. As a result, your skills diminish. Then, when the critical moment arises and you need to personally write something in your own hand, the results are not very impressive. In fact, they’re embarrassingly bad. Written and designed specifically for an adult audience, this book’s program for relearning cursive is guaranteed to take your penmanship to a new level. You will relearn the strokes and techniques. The instructions are easy to follow but designed for adults, so they present the information in a more compelling way. You’ll find no “A is for apple” here. The exercises are geared specifically for a more mature audience to help you relearn and practice cursive handwriting in a fun and friendly way.
Research suggests that printing letters and writing in cursive activate different parts of the brain. Learning cursive is good for children’s fine motor skills, and writing in longhand generally helps students retain more information and generate more ideas. Studies have also shown that kids who learn cursive rather than simply manuscript writing score better on reading and spelling tests, perhaps because the linked-up cursive forces writers to think of words as wholes instead of parts.
The Second Grade Big Book provides easy-to-use reproducible activities in math, language arts, science, social studies, writing, health, and art. Students learn through a multitude of fun formats, including crossword puzzles, word searches, dot-to-dots, secret code, hidden pictures, and experiments.
