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Handwriting Links
Handwriting Overview
The importance of choosing an effective handwriting curriculum cannot be underestimated. It's a choice that will shape a child's habits and abilities for life. This site is intended to assist in that decision by providing a brief overview of the major handwriting programs used nationwide, samples of their style, and links to additional information where available.
Those who work with young children just learning to write face an increasingly difficult task - how to choose an effective handwriting curriculum from a wide variety of methods and styles.
Draw Your World - Handwriting Styles
There are a variety of handwriting styles, including: cursive, manuscript, Italic, D'Nealian, and New South Wales.
Homeschool parents have more options. Take time to familiarize yourself with the various styles. See samples of popular handwriting styles.
PenDance Handwriting Course
Ready for a handwriting makeover? Improve the legibility of your handwriting, as well as teach you how to "dress up" your handwriting to look more "calligraphic" with PenDance.
The Write Fonts - Handwriting Fonts for Teachers
When my daughters had to start doing homework in cursive they came to me almost daily asking me to show them how to write various letters. It's been years since I learned formal cursive handwriting and my characters didn't always match what the school taught. I needed cursive handwriting fonts.
Ann Zeise A-Z Home's Cool Homeschooling Handwriting
Free cursive handwriting and manuscript worksheets and fonts for children's practice or teaching the D'Nealian alphabet and others.
Righting Writing Wrongs
Teachers are trying new ways of teaching the cursive style to correct illegible scrawls. Handwriting often is a low priority in some schools.
Teaching Handwriting
The concept of teaching cursive from the start ... lots of products for teaching handwriting.
Teaching Handwriting
A comprehensive list of handwriting websites on the internet.
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