So, here's a question for you all. Are your children learning "printing," like you learned to print? Luke's school's method of teaching handwriting is much different than what I learned and frankly, it drives me crazy. Mike informed me that even my printing is not "printing" but a lot like cursive. But, it is how I learned. I can VERY clearly remember those letter examples lined up near the ceiling on these big cards. The biggest differences are between a's and k's.
I figured this called for a little research and I discovered that there are different handwriting plans for teachers.
Check it out here:
Free Handwriting Fonts for Teachers
It looks to me as though I was taught the Jardotty font. Luke, I believe, is learning the Print Clearly font. It reminds me very much of the way all the foreign exchange students printed in high school. Maybe our small rural school was behind the times (20 odd years ago....).
September 28, 2008
Handwriting
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It looks like I learned the "Penmanship Print" - interesting! Even simple things like printing aren't as simple as one would think! I wonder what Wanda teaches? As Andrew informed me this weekend - Teachers know the answers for everything! :) No offense Wanda, but it looks like they can't even agree on how to print! :)
Where I teach and most ND schools we teach Jardorty or De'Nelian. It has the monkey tails or little hooks on letters a and m and the k looks almost like cursive. It helps them carry over into cursive. Just this year Bis. went to very very block style like the Clearly Luke is learning. A lot of the teachers hate the new/old way to print. As for my opinion it is a step backwards for Bis. As with any teaching method- Trends come and go.
Joe & I both learned it how Luke is learning it. I think the style you learned looks like pre-cursive writing. My kids are learning it like Luke is as well. I figure as long as it looks like the english language and other people can easily read it then does it matter?
At least that font looks pretty normal. When the kids were at school in CA they were taught Denelian which left little extensions on all the letters. This was suppose to make it easier to connect the letters when they started handwriting. But when we moved to TX the teachers kept correcting them because there font was different than what they taught. Welcome to school. Wait until more advanced math and the new wording they use!!!
So...I've taught mine Italics and the Palmer style printing, but then I discovered a little jewel of a program called Cursive First, that teaches Cursive before printing. It has some great arguments for why you teach cursive first and I've found it very easy to teach. On a side note, Dakota struggled incredibly with print, but really blossomed using cursive.
Wow, you've opened my eyes to what I have to look forward to when my kids go to school! I was taught the "Penmanship Print." I have since developed the "april print" which uses anything that is efficient & clear, lower case letters at the beginning of names, upper case letters in the middle of the word printed small, etc...try it! I think that they'll be adopting my method in schools in the year 2019 or so, he he!!
Way back in grade school in the 1950's, I learned the Palmer or Learning Curve 2.0 method. Boy does that date me!!
Grandma Richard
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