Italic Handwriting Book A Kindergarten

Italic Handwriting Book A cover. Yellow flowers in front of a large rock structure. Cover reads; natural to write, easy to teach, fun to learn.

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Grades: Kindergarten

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Product Code: 005-460

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Italic Handwriting Book A Kindergarten

With clever illustrations and plenty of space for writing and drawing on each individual letter page, this first book in the Series provides practice with basic shapes. It introduces primary italic lowercase families and capitals, one letter per page, and includes numerals. Known for its beautifully legible appearance and natural flow, Italic Handwriting is a long-time favorite with our customers.


We Appreciate Legible Handwriting

We've always been relatively low-key about the need for a handwriting course. Before the advent of internet orders, we saw examples of handwriting, both good and bad, and everywhere in between. And we realized that poor handwriting is seemingly no hindrance to success in life. Yet back in the day, when most of our orders came by mail, we undeniably appreciated good, readable handwriting.


Smooth Transition from Printing to Cursive

The Italic Handwriting Series does more than teach fine skills. It resulted in something that was beautifully legible! This is the course we used with our children. While the results varied depending on the child, Italic Handwriting was logical because the transition from printing to cursive was exceptionally smooth. It is easy to write as it conforms to natural hand movements. Each Italic Handwriting book has the basics of forming each letter and then age-appropriate exercises that students do in the workbook. New students should start the program at grade level.



From the Publisher:
Handwriting: It helps us learn, share ideas, and be creative.
Handwriting today is both a tool for learning and a professional skill. We need a handwriting style that keeps up with the demands of modern life. It needs to be legible and logical, easy to write and easy to learn.

When it comes to being understood, handwriting still matters.
And yet, as authors Barbara Getty and Inga Dubay write, “American handwriting is in a woeful state. We have become a 'please print' nation. But there is hope. We can stop mumbling on paper and become legible writers. We can go italic.”

Keep the focus on learning.
For early learners, literacy and language development are foundations of readiness, and research suggests that handwriting is a key component. Learning to write letters and form words are powerful first steps toward academic success.

A seamless transition.
With the Getty-Dubay Italic Handwriting Series, kids learn one alphabet — basic italic transitions naturally to cursive. In elementary school, handwriting is an important scaffold for basic literacy skills. For middle school students, fluent handwriting means more language arts success, and better preparation for high school.
Features
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Author: Barbara Getty & Inga Dubay
Number of Pages: 72
Format: Softcover
Publisher: Getty-Dubay Productions
Edition/Copyright: 1994
Made In: USA
ISBN: 9780982776230
Reproducible: No
Faith-Based: No

Awards and Endorsements:
Homeschooling Parent Homeschool Friendly Stamp of Approval 2005
Homeschool.com Seal of Approval 2006
The Old Schoolhouse EE Award Winner 2007
Practical Homeschooling Reader Award 2012

Customer Reviews

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Jessica M.
Basic but good

Basic print letter practice. I like that the letters are split up into families so similar shaped letters are practiced together. I laminated the blank line template sheet so my child could get extra practice on each letter.

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Brittany G.
Love this!

The kids love this!

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Sara W.
A must have

Two of our kids have now used this and it really benefited them in learning how to write and perfect their letters. It’s something they want to do everyday as well.

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T.E.
extra work

I found that this and the spelling you see is redundant. The pages in this book didn't take very long to do but weren't very helpful in training my daughter to write correctly.

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Danielle F.
Handwriting practice

What makes this book different from others is that it keeps the capitol letters separate from the lowercase letters, which I really appreciate. You move through the book based on the form of the letters instead of from A to Z so if your looking to learn letters alphabetically it's sometimes a pain to have to flip through the book to find the one you're on.