Making it up

9 Comments

1. Merry
   Posted Fri Dec 1 2006 at 21:43 | Permalink

   Fran got on best with the Jolly Phonics books of all things!

2. Kath
   Posted Fri Dec 1 2006 at 21:53 | Permalink

   Does she already do Jarman style writing with the ticks? It’s fairly easy to join up from there and if you look up Jarman there are rules for the joins on his website. M used the Wizard Whimstaff book which had lots of practising of various joins and I thought was good, though he’s gone back to printing now.

3. Merry
   Posted Fri Dec 1 2006 at 21:57 | Permalink

   oh yeah, Fran liked the WW one too

4. Jax
   Posted Fri Dec 1 2006 at 22:03 | Permalink

   Thought you were using Getty Dubay Merry? Got hits on your site for it

5. Tim
   Posted Fri Dec 1 2006 at 22:12 | Permalink

   Merry was but Fran had other ideas?.

6. Alison
   Posted Fri Dec 1 2006 at 23:09 | Permalink

   Yeah, Jolly Phonics and WW have worked here. About all WW is good for imo And at least they’re British rather than American - lots of the American stuff is all italic-y and weird-looking to my eyes.

7. Merry
   Posted Fri Dec 1 2006 at 23:14 | Permalink

   GD is irritating in some respects, especially that the early stuff is HUGE letter forms and by the time they were interested, they could write smaller. Once everyone has decent pen control and can join up, we might use it again to make it prettier (including me!) but i don’t rate it as a teaching tool much.

8. Jax
   Posted Fri Dec 1 2006 at 23:33 | Permalink

   was thinking about launching in partway tbh - going straight for book d. Not that I can find out where I can get it from.

9. Jan
   Posted Sat Dec 2 2006 at 21:35 | Permalink

   C used handwriting without tears. I didn’t like all the letter forms but we used it as a framework for learning joined-up and it’s done wonders for her writing, which was previously a real mess.