Cursive Script

Description

RUNNING FORMS – LINKING THE LETTERS – HANDWRITING PRACTICE – FINGER STRING GAMES

CURSIVE SCRIPT – 22 pages: Seven days of detailed lesson plans with mentoring comments, background notes and resources used, a story, blackboard drawings, spelling verses, script templates, a seasonal painting, Nature Table decoration, and a letter of information to the parents.

The free supplement of poems and songs is an editable template which includes sheet music, footnotes and attributions. Customise it for your cultural setting or use it to teach English as a foreign language.

This chapter shows one possible way of introducing a chosen cursive script alongside traditional string games, a popular Morning Circle activity with humorous spelling verses, and the careful drawing of fluency forms to develop dexterity. With a basic knowledge of spelling patterns, children are ready to join their letters; for a flowing hand rests on an understanding of the word as a whole and develops naturally from putting it together letter by letter. Class 2 mirrors the historic evolution of writing: from Roman capitals to medieval uncials, and eventually to the linking of letters in a cursive script that enabled greater speed of writing.

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