Good handwriting is a vital communication skill and developing that skill at an early age need no longer be viewed as a chore by teachers, parents and wards alike. It can be fun to begin and end with as being proved in practical terms through a set of 7 ‘Learner’s Choice’ series of titles. These exercise books, starting with pattern drawing at level A and ending with creative writing exercises for the average student at level V when the foundation learning is considered to be truly and effectively completed, have become the popular choice for prescribed use in all leading schools, including a number of well-known International schools in southern India.
Why view handwriting as a critical communication skill, you might ask? Look at any standard doctor’s prescription and you begin to wonder at the elasticity and tolerance levels of ‘legibility’ in handwriting! But ask any experienced primary school teacher and she will quickly endorse the common perception that many a time students lose out on marks not because they do not know the subject matter, but because they are unable to write legibly, making it bothersome for the evaluator to decipher as to what they have written.
The ‘o’ will often look like ‘a’, ‘u’ like ‘c’, ‘i’ like ‘e’ and vice versa. Instead, handwriting should look good, be legible and should facilitate quick writing. Handwriting is a skill and it needs to be developed from the very early age. Every letter has a related pattern and linking the letter of the alphabet is an art by itself.
The series of ‘Cursive Writing Made Easy’ titles from ‘Learner’s Choice’ provide an opportunity to the current generation of children, no matter what their age group may be, to learn or rectify their style of writing, to develop the art and skill of cursive writing, leading to legible writing and to rightfully secure the marks they deserve.
With Learner’s Choice worksheets and workbooks, schools have an option of introducing either the script or cursive form of handwriting, or both at the appropriate levels.
In the cursive form, emphasis is placed on small letters of the alphabet at levels A and B. Capital letters are introduced only at Level I and completed at Level II.
Level A deals with pattern drawing and related patterns according to the letter, leading on to ‘l’, ‘t’ and ‘b’.
Level B begins with patterns and practice in combination of the consonants with the vowels. Example: ba, be, bi, bo, bu. From there it leads on to three-letter and four-letter words.
At Level I, emphasis is given to commonly used capital letters A, D, F, H, I, M, S, T. W and four-letter words. Include number names from one to nine and counting in tens up to one hundred.
At Level II emphasis is given uniformly to all the capital and small letters of the English alphabet. Sentences are then introduced with the capital letters. Four pages of small paragraph writing are also introduced at this level, to give children guidelines on how to write a paragraph, along with practice in cursive writing.
At Level III practice lessons have been given in writing of words beginning with the letters of the alphabet A to Z. The subsequent pages have paragraph writing as well.
Level IV includes collective nouns and paragraph writing.
Level V includes writing sentences with similes, besides paragraph writing.
If you are following the script (print) pattern of handwriting, we have a set of 3 titles, from Level B, to Level I and II
This handwriting set, from level A to V, as also the script set from level B to II, is priced at Rs.50/- per title.
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