Description
Italic Cursive Instruction is a simple method of learning cursive using the natural joining of printed letters and minimizing loops and flourishes. This process is easier to learn and easier to read than contemporary or traditional programs. This resource includes a handwriting workbook along with a teacher guide.
The ZIP file will be delivered electronically immediately following payment. It includes an 86 page PDF workbook and 25-page Teacher Guide PDF.
Developed by a school-based occupational therapist, Italic Cursive Instruction utilizes a leveled cursive learning system. Easy to teach, this method allows students to learn through a steady acquisition of skills that include tracing, copying formations, remembering formations, writing words, and writing sentences.
What Is Included in the Italic Cursive Instruction Resource?
Letters are introduced in groups based on the similarity of their formations. This strategy simplifies learning and helps build motor memory of formations.
This workbook provides:
- specific instructions for key skills, including slant, letter joins, lifts, bridges, and lowered bridges.
- Go-dots, uniquely embedded arrows, and slant guides minimize student errors.
- Large-print formation guides with embedded arrows clearly indicate the direction of movement.
- Large-print formation guides allow parents or teachers to easily teach formations and utilize multisensory instruction.
- Fun worksheets that eliminate ineffective repetition while building a motor memory for common letter combinations and high-frequency words.
Worksheets are consistent enough for students to clearly understand expectations, yet varied enough to hold students’ interest.
Instruction moves from the copying phase to the recalling phase, which is a critical step for using cursive in daily writing.
The 86 pages of worksheets provide both instructional and practice elements so students can easily look back at the directions to form any letters they may have forgotten.
The 86 pages of worksheets provide both instructional and practice elements so students can easily look back at the directions to form any letters they may have forgotten.
The Italic Cursive Instruction Resource also includes:
- A progress monitor of student learning is built into the workbook, after both lowercase and capitals sections.
- A rubric provides clear guidance to students of five discrete skills and one practice expectation.
- A comprehensive and easy-to-follow Teaching Guide is included.
What Is Included in the Teaching Guide?
◆ Six Essential Elements for Teaching Cursive
◆ At-a-Glance Student Desk Models
◆ Multisensory Methods and Options
◆ Cut-out Slant Guides allowing students to assess their own progress
◆ Scripted Path of Movement Language for explicit instruction of formations
◆ Illustrated Lesson Plans
◆ Summarized Lesson Guidelines with Illustrated workbook contents
◆Skill Rubric
