Cursive Handwriting

Cursive depends on joining strokes that a child has never had to make when printing letters, which is why it usually needs its own dedicated practice. The book starts with the basic strokes, moves to individual letters, then to joins and finally to whole words, giving guided tracing lines throughout before asking for unaided writing. Progressing in that order means a learner is never asked to form a shape they have not already traced, and the improvement is visible from one page to the next. Where it fits: • Basic strokes taught before any letter is attempted • Guided tracing that gradually gives way to free writing • Letter joins covered as a separate skill in their own right • Ruled practice space sized for developing pencil control Made for school-age children learning cursive, and for the parents and teachers guiding that practice, published by Wonder House Books and available through Boipoka.