A Reason for Handwriting K or A?
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A Reason for Handwriting K or A?
I will be doing Little Hands with my 5 1/2 year old son this coming year. He is doing well in reading. He can read simple books and I'm thinking I'll have him start the Emerging readers in the next few months. He does not write much at all though. He can make most of the capitals (I'm not sure they are all made correctly), but he has a hard time with the small curvy lines of the lowercase letters, and even with numbers. Maybe I should have worked with him more on this the past year, but I did his writing for him and even a lot of his cutting and pasting. He can color decently, but again, I usually only had him do this if he felt like it, or I would help him with coloring if he looked discouraged. I am hoping on focusing on fine motor skills in Little Hands and I'm excited about the Rod and Staff books. My question is which handwriting book would be better. Does the K book ever get to writing words or is it individual letters? Do you think the A book would be too hard if he is not writing much right now? Thanks in advance.
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Ds7- Bigger Hearts
http://wonderfilleddays.com
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Re: A Reason for Handwriting K or A?
We just got the A book and just started it with my daughter who is almost 6 1/2. I would say it sounds like that would be WAY too hard for your son if he is not used to doing much handwriting at all. It starts off with review, so it goes back over all the uppercase and lowercase letters and the numbers, before they get into writing words and copying the Bible verse. But they are doing a whole page of several things on each page, so I think it may be easier to do the K book where I think it focusses more on doing one at a time.
To answer your question, I believe K only focusses on writing the letters and numbers, A is the one that has them copying words and eventually a Bible verse.
Though I would probably more highly recommend the Italic book after seeing both. Italic has fewer practice repeats on each page. I have also done Handwriting without Tears but I think HWT and Italic, at least the books not everything they teach, are very similar. HWT has some other tools for helping children learn letter shapes but I didn't really use those.
To answer your question, I believe K only focusses on writing the letters and numbers, A is the one that has them copying words and eventually a Bible verse.
Though I would probably more highly recommend the Italic book after seeing both. Italic has fewer practice repeats on each page. I have also done Handwriting without Tears but I think HWT and Italic, at least the books not everything they teach, are very similar. HWT has some other tools for helping children learn letter shapes but I didn't really use those.
Melissa
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His mercies never come to an end"
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"The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases
His mercies never come to an end"
DD12 - Rev to Rev + DITHOR 6/7/8
DD10 - CTC + DITHOR 2/3
DD7 - Bigger + ERs
DS5 - LHFHG
DD2 - ABC123
2 babies in heaven
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Re: A Reason for Handwriting K or A?
Thanks, I'll have to check into the italic books.
Enjoying Heart of Dakota for our fifth year using:
Ds15- World History
Ds13-MtM
Ds11- RtR
Ds7- Bigger Hearts
http://wonderfilleddays.com
Ds15- World History
Ds13-MtM
Ds11- RtR
Ds7- Bigger Hearts
http://wonderfilleddays.com
Re: A Reason for Handwriting K or A?
They do write words in K, but only one word per lesson. HTH
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Re: A Reason for Handwriting K or A?
This is very helpful information! Thanks
I will be doing K next year for my son and I was wondering which book to choose as well.

Sara
Married to Jaysen for 8 years
Cassidy: Beyond, Cheerful Cursive, ERS, Math Mammoth
Joel: LHTH, BJU Math K5, A Reason for Handwriting K, The Reading Lesson
Timothy: 17 months
Married to Jaysen for 8 years
Cassidy: Beyond, Cheerful Cursive, ERS, Math Mammoth
Joel: LHTH, BJU Math K5, A Reason for Handwriting K, The Reading Lesson
Timothy: 17 months