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Handwriting Today: Book A
Handwriting Today is a comprehensive joined cursive handwriting programme of four Pupil Books to help pupils develop neat, legible handwriting.
Features:
- cursive style increases speed, fluency and spelling accuracy
- research shows that cursive handwriting discourages reversal and transposition of letters and is also the recommended style for pupils with dyslexia
- Handwriting Today introduces pupils to the cursive style in a systematic and structured fashion, with numerous practice and review pages to ensure success
- groups individual letters into 'families' based on the direction of formation, to aid teaching and learning
- can be used in conjunction with 'My Spelling Workbook' where pupils can practice the words in cursive style to encourage word pattern retention once they have mastered individual letter formation
- ensures that schools have a 'whole-school' approach to handwriting in terms of letter shapes, height and starting and ending positions, so pupils encounter the same style year after year
- Handwriting Today uses Peannaireacht font which is a cursive font created to take the best from traditional cursive fonts and blends with the best of contemporary font designs to provide a smooth flowing, easy-to-write and easy-to-view handwriting font that will create habits that remain in later years.
- Comprehensive downloadable Teachers Guide - provides background information on the font in use, instruction on how to use the workbooks and additional activities to allow for differing abilities and levels of progress within the class group. Download here: Handwriting Today Teacher Guide - Book A.
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The Handwriting Today series is made up of four pupil workbooks A-D. With the new writing language curriculum ready to enfold itself upon Irish primary classrooms, teachers will need to take a look at their current handwriting pedagogy. The great news is that most of the work has been done for the teacher who wants to use a workbook! It follows a well-researched approach to teaching handwriting by using cursive writing from the beginning. The teacher’s handbook that accompanies each workbook explains the research in detail. In Book A, we have some pre-writing activities followed by two pages for each letter divided into anticlockwise, clockwise and downstroke letters. There is also a good section of numbers, review and assessment checklist. Each Book builds on the last in terms of skills and development. I always think that the workbook is never enough for a teacher and does not satisfy the need to differentiate for abilities in a teacher’s class. Prim-Ed have designed a Handwriting Today:Let’s join in! CD-Rom for use with projected screen/IWB to help differentiate further. In this CD-ROM, the teacher can provide opportunities to create differentiated worksheets. The teacher can change line size, stroke size and design as well. It compliments the workbooks but is sold separately. Another of its handy options is that the teacher can leave an animation of a chosen letter on the projected screen while she observes the children’s writing. Children can look up and remember without the teacher having to go back and forth to the board to demonstrate. Handwriting is proving to be a vital component of any good language programme with links to spelling and reading becoming evident. Cursive writing has been found to have many unique benefits to printing letters. It reinforces the need for a child to be fluid and legible as does this Prim-Ed programme. It comes recommended by spelling and handwriting life-time researcher, Brendan Culligan as an excellent resource to have. Prim-Ed have a downloadable, free teacher handbook to accompany each level in the series. Teachers will need to work on a fine motor skills programme before and during the use of the Handwriting Today programme but that would be the same for any handwriting programme.
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