Kids improve manuscript handwriting skills with the worksheets in these Dnealian workbooks.
In this graduated practice book for D'Nealian manuscript, children learn to write lowercase letters in natural, progressive stages. Using a finger, children trace a model letter, first following the directional arrows, then on their own. Then , they practice writing the letter. Finally, they practice the letter as part of familiar words.
You can purchase the D'Nealian Handwriting from a to z lowercase manuscript practice book separately here, or as part of the complete four book D'Nealian Handwriting series.
The D'Nealian lowercase manuscript letters were developed because the "circle-and-stick" method of printing the small letters was very difficult for children to master; it required fifty-two pencil lifts to produce the twenty-six letters. If the child could produce the first stroke of the letter, chances are he or she couldn't get the second and third strokes attached to it in the right places.
By contrast the D'Nealian lowercase manuscript alphabet takes only thirty-one strokes---one for each letter and five extras for dotting and crossing. And once the skill is mastered, there is no abandoning it to learn a new skill. This lowercase manuscript alphabet was developed to convert into cursive with the addition of only three connecting strokes. That is why it is so important for teachers----or anyone who is instructing and overseeing letter practice----to be sure that the letters are produced according to the stroke directions.
To further help the learning process the lowercase manuscript letters are introduced in common stroke groups.
This is the first book in this series of D'Nealian Handwriting instruction by Author: Donald N. Thurber. |
