Preparing and cursive? - Julie, Carrie or anyone in the know

[water2wine]

If you were a good match for everything else but just had not learned cursive yet would Preparing work? Does anyone know if the cursive knowledge is more just an age and skill thing rather than they will be reading and doing copywork in cursive? Someone was asking me this. It would seem like they could just learn cursive with Preparing if they were really on target with everything else as long as they are not having to read in cursive. I think this family has kids old enough but has just not gotten to teaching cursive.

Thanks!:D

[Carrie]

water2wine,

You could definitely teach cursive handwriting along with Preparing. Although, Preparing does schedule daily copywork to be done in cursive in the guide. It does tell kiddos to copy in cursive in the directions provided in Preparing. Moms teaching Preparing who have not yet formally taught cursive would just tell their kiddos to print the copywork instead.

The reason we scheduled cursive into Preparing is so kiddos will have a stystematic way to practice the cursive they learned in Bigger Hearts. We do not provide the cursive model to copy from, however, so kiddos can easily copy in print instead, if needed.

Teaching cursive is a skill that comes along later for some kiddos. We usually teach it in third grade at our house, as many public schools do as well. Some public schools are teaching cursive in second grade now, and ABeka has an option to teach cursive as a first form of handwriting before printing! So, the age at which cursive is introduced varies widely!

If kiddos are ready for the other skills within Preparing, I certainly would not bump them back to Bigger just for the cursive.

Blessings,
Carrie

[water2wine]

If kiddos are ready for the other skills within Preparing, I certainly would not bump them back to Bigger just for the cursive.

That's what I thought. It seems easy enough to work around to me. But since I haven't seen it was just not sure on the answer. Thanks!