D'Nealian Writing workbooks

[Shelsi]

Any experience with any of them? There's several on amazon but none of them have that feature that lets you see the inside of the book. I need something for my 1st grader. He went to public kindy for the first part of the year and they taught him d'nealian which he does pretty good with so we just decided to stick with it. He hates writing and reading and tends to do better with workbooks - I've been having him write a few lines in a journal everyday but it's tears the entire time so I'm hoping the workbook will be a little better for him.

[Momma Aimee]

subbing this the style i have chosen -- so i'll just tag along

[Momma Aimee]

also

http://www.rainbowresource.com/searc...198027-1709390

[PGTlatte]

The D'Nealian books seem really expensive to me. I bought the "modern printing" ebook from Teacher Created.

http://www.teachercreated.com/produc...-printing-3329

It's not outstanding - very basic - but $5 ! Mostly what I use it for is the guide for the whole alphabet that is in it - then I print the handwriting paper from the Donna Young website and make DS1 a practice sheet by writing letters or words with a highlighter, using the examples from the ebook as my own guide. He can trace over what I write with the highlighter, and then practice on his own.

There are also websites where you can generate your own handwriting practice sheets in D'Nealian style font.

To me the most important thing is the order and direction of the strokes, and the ebook covers that.

Two other systems I have not used but you might like are these:

http://www.bfhhandwriting.com/about.php

http://www.handwritingsuccess.com/it...ing-series.php

[Forsanda]

I've used the Getty and Dubay and liked it very much. They usually run about $8.99 each.

[Momma Aimee]

found this today and thought I'd share --

http://www.currclick.com/product_inf..._id=33954&it=1

If you want your children to have beautiful handwriting, then they need to practice! However, so many handwriting copybooks offer boring, worn-out sayings that do not interest most children today! How about combining your children's interests and studies into their handwriting drills to make them fun and exciting? Master Writer Copybooks are just the answer!
Like our Happy Scribe Copybooks, these books are interesting and exciting. For an older child, these books reflect the great thoughts of famous and important people like Presidents, Authors, Saints, Artists, Philosophers and more. Great to work into your historical studies and use as conversation starters... these are some of mankind's greatest thinkers and now you'll be able to help tuck away these profound quotations into the hearts and minds of your own children through handwriting practice.
Each copybook has twenty sayings, presented in three different common handwriting fonts: Classic Block Printing, D'Nealian Italic and Cursive. We have based these exercises on twenty day blocks, representing four weeks of five days, for one month of exercises. There are basic alphabets and number pages for extra drill pages as well as a blank page to print for your own exercises, if you so please.

Each quotation is printed once dark, and room for practice. On the second page, it's printed dotted and grayed with room to practice. It's a proven fact, that when presented with several blank lines to practice on, student's work tends to degrade quickly. However, when there is another faint reminder quote line, they will see much more consistent results in the quality of their handwriting.

There are 19 Copybooks in this Combo File... a great deal, over 2,000 handwriting sheets for your children!
Includes the following titles....


African Americans
Artists
Atheletes
Authors
Entertainers
Explorers
Famous Women
Jesus Christ
Kings & Queens
Musicians
Native Americans
Philosophers
Presidents 1 & 2
First Ladies
Saints
Scientists
Shakespheare's Plays
Statesmen




Each book is over

see review here
http://thecurriculumchoice.com/2010/...ion-copybooks/


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[Shelsi]

Wow, awesome, thank you! Did you buy it? Do you like it?

[kittywitty]

Italic is pretty, but after level e, even, dd found it very challenging to read other cursive because almost nobody uses italic! She wanted to switch so I got the d'nealion from amazon. She finds it a lot easier and I find it easier to help her. I don't think the books are wonderful and there's a lot of pointless exercises, but they're ok overall.

[Momma Aimee]

Originally Posted by Shelsi

Wow, awesome, thank you! Did you buy it? Do you like it?

i am going to get them.

DS1 is just starting to make real letters -- and he is still at the stage he can write his name and a few words, but his letters are 3 inches by 3 inch when he does his best.

thus he is not doing any realy copy work and I do not really ask much letter pratice; his fine motor is a bit behind and i choose to not make it something he dislikes by pushing it --

but I AM getting it -- i am so excited -- i do want penmenship pratice to be part of our daily work, when his ablity allows -- adn I love the materail (quotes to think about).

[mrs_mandolini]

I used Dnealian 20 years ago when I was in school. What I remember: BORING. It worked, it's boring.

If you want to be able to design your own exercises, or have your kid copy something other than whatever is in a workbook (i.e. possibly more interesting to your child), you can buy software to do this. I am looking at "startwrite" to do this, there are others as well as far as I know. I'm a mac user so my options are a bit more limited.

[Momma Aimee]

Originally Posted by mrs_mandolini

I used Dnealian 20 years ago when I was in school. What I remember: BORING. It worked, it's boring.

If you want to be able to design your own exercises, or have your kid copy something other than whatever is in a workbook (i.e. possibly more interesting to your child), you can buy software to do this. I am looking at "startwrite" to do this, there are others as well as far as I know. I'm a mac user so my options are a bit more limited.

there are places on line to do it for free -- i'll find links for you later tonight -- i do his name for him already.

i am ok boreing, a lot of pratical life is just that -- pratical life -- not so exciting. that doesn't bvother me, it is life.

[Shelsi]

I'm going to bump this so hopefully Aimee will remember and come back with links! I was looking for a free one today and couldn't find anything.

[moondiapers]

donnayoung.org and learningpages.com both have free handwritting worksheets in that script. You can google and find the font to add to your word processor so you can make your own handwritting book pretty easily.

[Momma Aimee]

here is one

http://www.handwritingworksheets.com/

and I am sure i have another -- but this one does let you make your sheets