Big wants to learn joined up handwriting. Anybody else using anything specific for this? Would love advice.
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Fran got on best with the Jolly Phonics books of all things!
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.
oh yeah, Fran liked the WW one too
Thought you were using Getty Dubay Merry? Got hits on your site for it 😉
Merry was but Fran had other ideas?. 🙂
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.
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.
was thinking about launching in partway tbh – going straight for book d. Not that I can find out where I can get it from.
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.
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