Product Description
Produced to help teachers, students, and laymen work toward beautiful handwriting through form drawing. ... Read more

Book Description
Reinforcement activities for basic skills! Help is here for the student who needs extra practice with basic skills, for the accelerated student who enjoys an extra challenge, and for the young learner who is developing basic concepts and readiness skills. These inexpensive booklets boost self-confidence and reinforce basic skills with activities that are geared to a specific grade level. Packed with fun-to-do activities and appealing art to motivate students. Answer keys are included where needed. For individual use in the classroom or as homework. Reproducible. Compact 7" x 9" (18cm x 23cm). 56 pp. ... Read more

Book Description
A considerable proportion of pupils leave primary school unable to write well enough to deal with the demands of secondary school.

This innovative new book aims to help teachers and SENCOs to work alongside pupils to help them address their own difficulties.The book has three parts:

Part one explores the various issues which underpin any discussion of handwriting:letterforms; the pros and cons of handwriting models; how to help children write at speed; writing posture; pens and pen hold; left-handedness;talking to parents; and some of the common causes of handwriting problems.

Part two presents a series of examples of handwriting in photocopiable form, aimed principally at the pupils but with full teacher support, designed to show pupils a range of handwriting problems, helping them them to self-diagnose and work towards improvement.Each page offers practical tips and help for pupils with difficulties.All of the photocopiable material is also provided in electronic format on the companion website.

Part three sets out a diagnostic technique for teachers to follow, outlining three approaches to tackling handwriting problems: a quick, small-group assessment; providing one-to-one help; and working with a whole class. Each approach is outlined in detail, offering advice on effective observation, procedures to follow in giving appropriate practical help to pupils, and how to assess progress.Part three also offers guidelines for designing checklists, and the role of surveys and research.

Authoritative, wide-ranging and full of practical help, this book will be particularly useful for secondary teachers, secondary SENCOs and teaching support staff.

Rosemary Sassoon is an independent consultant and lecturer, based in Sevenoaks, Kent.She is the author of Handwriting: The Way to Teach it, Paul Chapman Publishing, 2003. ... Read more

Book Description
Reinforcement activities for basic skills! Help is here for the student who needs extra practice with basic skills, for the accelerated student who enjoys an extra challenge, and for the young learner who is developing basic concepts and readiness skills. These inexpensive booklets boost self-confidence and reinforce basic skills with activities that are geared to a specific grade level. Packed with fun-to-do activities and appealing art to motivate students. Answer keys are included where needed. For individual use in the classroom or as homework. Reproducible. Compact 7" x 9" (18cm x 23cm). 56 pp. ... Read more

Book Description
Reinforcement activities for basic skills! Help is here for the student who needs extra practice with basic skills, for the accelerated student who enjoys an extra challenge, and for the young learner who is developing basic concepts and readiness skills. These inexpensive booklets boost self-confidence and reinforce basic skills with activities that are geared to a specific grade level. Packed with fun-to-do activities and appealing art to motivate students. Answer keys are included where needed. For individual use in the classroom or as homework. Reproducible. Compact 7" x 9" (18cm x 23cm). 56 pp. ... Read more

Book Description

Customer Reviews (3)

Not a calligraphy manual, but...
...still an enjoyable read for the price.

A good portion of the writing samples included in Mr. Bickham's book were not, in fact, considered calligraphy in their time, but rather to exemplify legible and easy styles of business hand, intended, as per the book's subtitle, for clerks and others whose jobs necessitated a good deal of writing and record-keeping, prior to the era of the typewriter.To the reviewer who complained of the cursive scripts being illegible, try reading handwritten cursive a bit more often; the scripts do retain certain archaisms such as the extended S, but are not significantly different from, for instance, the Spencerian system of cursive penmanship, which dominated American schools throughout the 19th century.If you want illegible (to the modern reader's eye) calligraphy, try picking your way through an illuminated medieval manuscript.

That said, this caveat must be included: this book does -not- give explicit instruction on how to reproduce the styles, it is merely a collection of the best samples-- it's best for those who already have some grasp of some form of calligraphy or antiquated penmanship.For those -looking- to learn, I would recommend Theory of Spencerian Penmanship as a starting point, at the very least.For those who have no interest in taking up calligraphy and merely enjoy looking at elegant handwriting, it's a delightful curiosity and memento of the vanished culture of penmanship; much of the writing samples given are quite simply beautiful to look at; though this particular calligraphy enthusiast would hope that admiration of beautiful writing would spur more people to take up interest in a now-esoteric art.

Penmanship Made Easy -- Not!
I have trouble calling this a book. It's a bound collection of calligraphy, and not very good calligraphy at that. Many letters are unreadable. Penmanship should be to help communicate by written word. This book is not helpful unless you're experienced with calligraphy.

Fine examples of formal handwriting in the 1700's
Mr. Bickham was an 18th century engraver and calligrapher. Although the book (orignally published ca 1733) begins with a set of rules on how to form letters, these rules and the book's examples are best studied by anexperienced calligrapher. This is NOT a beginner's book. But it isdelightful for those who like to examine the formal hands of nearly threecenturies ago. The examples are not just alphabets but writing samples.Fancy "Content alone is true happiness; or the Country Lass"? Howabout "Beauty's a Fair But Fading Flower"? There are manycalligraphic examples from copperplate to blackhand. As the gentlelmansays, everything the "young clerk's assistant" might need. ... Read more

Product Description
Blackline masters ZANER-BLOSER grade 1 HANDWRITING A Way To Self-Expression. Contains pages of Teacher Information, Instructional Design, Instructional Support, School-Home Involvement, Practice Masters. ... Read more

Product Description
Over 500 Top Quality Templates to Hep your Students Improve Their Handwriting Skills. It has been developed to assist teachers and parents teaching Manuscript (also called Print or block-style), and D'Nealian Print. The software gives you more than 500 pages of relevant and fun activities on each style, assisting students to develop. Pattern movements and other basic motor skills. Proficiency in letter formation and shaping. Appropriate letter size, spacing and slope. An ergonomically relaxed posture. Confidence in writing. With the free Adobe Reader software included on theis CD-ROM you will get advanced control over the handwriting activities, as you can easily view and print the standard Portable Document Format (PDF) files. ... Read more

Book Description

This book is an essential classroom guide to the teaching of handwriting. It covers all aspects of the subject, from whole school planning; to classroom management, and the teaching of letters in a highly illustrated and practical sequence, from initial letter forms through to joined writing.

The author presents many examples and imaginative ideas to make learning to write more effective and interesting for children and for teachers. This new edition includes a section on Special Needs. It deals with complex handwriting problems and how to understand and deal with them.

The author offers strategies for better teaching, and her aim throughout the book is to encourage flexibility and clear thinking about essential issues, rather than to impose solutions.

Product Description
Volume 1 of a 2 volume set includes photos, drawings, history, anecdotes and lots of examples of early american handwriting. Chapters cover 1-Penmanship in a New Land; 2-Styles of Penmanship; 3-Equipment and Tools; 4-Technique; 5-Lowercase Letters; 6-Capital Letters; 7-Signature Writing; and 8-Golden Age of Ornamental Penmanship. ... Read more

Product Description
Produced to help teachers, students, and laymen work toward beautiful handwriting through form drawing. ... Read more