Help to identify this type of handwriting, please!

[midnightwriter]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/reader/0198386478?_encoding=UTF8&page=7#reader_0198386478

There's a "look inside the book" feature, and it shows some of the letters.

DD is set on this particular style, but we can't find this workbook, and I don't see this style in any of the handwriting samples on-line.

To me it looks like a DN manuscript, but the letters are joined. She wants a simple style, but to join the letters.

Thanks!

[midnightwriter]

nm, that style was different.

Edited by midnightwriter - 3/24/11 at 12:28pm

[jeffsdear]

It looks something like D'Nealian to me. You can find free worksheet makers online.

[moominmamma]

It looks similar to, though not identical to, the Getty-Dubay (Portland) italic handwriting style, cursive version.

Miranda

[midnightwriter]

Originally Posted by jeffsdear 

It looks something like D'Nealian to me. You can find free worksheet makers online.

Thanks! It does look like D'Nealian, but it seems that D'Nealian doesn't join latters, and she wants to join. And the K's are different--these are the ones that I noticed, but DD says it looks completely different to her....

[sapphire_chan]

D'Nealian printing is supposed to be designed specifically so that you join up letters by simply extending the end of one letter into the beginning of the other, see the little tails on the a and d?

[midnightwriter]

Really? Not here, though? http://www.handwritingworksheets.com/flash/dnealian/index.htm

Thanks!

[SundayCrepes]

go to www.educationalfontware.com and see if you see the font

[midnightwriter]

Thank you! Great site!

 

Originally Posted by SundayCrepes 

go to www.educationalfontware.com and see if you see the font

[ecoteat]

D'Nealian. The whole point of that style is that you start making the letter with the little hooks on the ends when you are learning how to print. Then once that's mastered, it's a piece of cake to connect them. You don't have to learn a whole new way to form a letter, you just put them together (mostly. There are a few exceptions.). I used to teach 3rd and 4th grade and we used this series. I think it started introducing connecting the letters by the end of the 3rd grade book.

[midnightwriter]

Thank you! Would you know what defines a style? For example, I noticed that the letter K was different in D'Nealian and in the workbooks I linked to.

I'm also confused, as when I google for D'Nealian worksheets, I'm given examples without the little hooks.
 

Originally Posted by ecoteat 

D'Nealian. The whole point of that style is that you start making the letter with the little hooks on the ends when you are learning how to print. Then once that's mastered, it's a piece of cake to connect them. You don't have to learn a whole new way to form a letter, you just put them together (mostly. There are a few exceptions.). I used to teach 3rd and 4th grade and we used this series. I think it started introducing connecting the letters by the end of the 3rd grade book.