Does anyone know of a good cursive copybook for early elementary?

[gandpsmommy]

Dd 6.5 taught herself to write as a toddler/preschooler. So, this year she was getting really bored with Getty-Dubay italic and was expressing a desire to learn cursive. We switched to Abeka Writing With Phonics cursive in the late fall. She now loves doing handwriting, and it is the subject we use to start the day. I would love to use a copybook for handwriting next year, but I can't find one in cursive. Any recommendations?

[Tina in WA]

A Reason for Handwriting (http://www.areasonfor.com/HomeSchool/Products/Handwriting/) or History Scribe: Happy Scribe Handwriting Copybooks (http://www.thehomeschoolshop.com/sh-happyscribe.htm)

We have used both. I am still using Transition (http://www.areasonfor.com/HomeSchool/Products/ProductDisplay.aspx?PID=11007) for my child that is learning cursive.

The kids enjoy Happy Scribe because they can pick out their own topics to write about.

HTH~Tina

[KristineIN]

You could make up your own from here: http://zaner-bloser.com/fresh/handwriting-zbfontsonline.html

Someone posted it yesterday and I made up cursive for dd & print for ds's. It was great. You'd have to put in 2nd grade in order to get it to do cursive. This might work until you find what you are looking for.

Kristine

[Peek a Boo]

Have you looked at the other levels of A Beka cursive workbooks? They include a lot of good copywork in addition to technique and practice. If she already likes that format, you might wanna check out a motel meeting and flip through the next level or two. Even if you skip the technical drill/practice in the higher levels, there's still a lot of copywork you can glean. I just X out parts that my dc hate to do, lol.

[Scarlett]

My ds7 is almost through the cursive book and doing fine.

[awanama]

You could make up your own from here: http://zaner-bloser.com/fresh/handwriting-zbfontsonline.html
Kristine

Kristine,
This may sound dumb, but how do you get the sentences to start with a capital letter? I have tried and can't figure out how.

Thanks.

[Peek a Boo]

just pressing the shift key works for me.....

[Deborah]

We loved the Pentime Handwriting books. They have neat nature/animal information. Practice writing on the left pages and copywork on the right pages. The back book has a fold out and over w/ lines that get places under the copypages to help them keep these head'n in the right direction. :)
You can see a few samples on rainbowresource

[training5]

Memoria Press has a series of copybooks and one is in cursive.

[AudreyTN]

After dd finishes HWT cursive, I am going to start her with Classically Cursive.

[EvergreenEclecticAcademy]

Kristine,
This may sound dumb, but how do you get the sentences to start with a capital letter? I have tried and can't figure out how.

Thanks.

I have the same problem with the Zaner-Bloser site. The shift key doesn't work for me to capitalize letters. :confused:

[Julie in GA]

If you studying ancient history, you might like this one that I published on Lulu:

http://www.lulu.com/content/1088074


I'm also publishing a medieval one very soon, and will offer the downloadable version for free for the first day or two.

[Suzanne in ABQ]

The Shift key doesn't work for me either. I have up after a couple tries.

[KristineIN]

Sorry everyone, I had used it for spelling lists and didn't realize that it doesn't do capital letters. Guess it's not as good as I thought.

Kristine