The best Children's Handwriting Books: Reddit reviews

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It's a good start and there is plenty of room for improvement. One piece of advice I'd give is try to get your hands on some handwriting practice paper (for example). Your lower case letters go up and down in size, whereas ideally they should all be of equal height. Handwriting practice paper has a dotted line in the center, so it makes it easier to keep them all the same height. Once you master that you can go back to regular lined paper and because you've developed muscle memory now, you'll see great improvement in how all your letters are of the same size.

Good luck! With a little perseverance and plenty of practice your cursive will be the envy of your peers (as mine is with my peers 😀)

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P.S. as many have already added below, stick with fountain pens if you can. Ballpoints just make even the neatest cursive look horrible)

Start with the basics: Handwriting Practice Paper: 100 Blank Writing Pages - For Students Learning to Write Letters https://www.amazon.com/dp/1635785014/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_H9Y40D84NQAGJ35155XY

Lol I don’t have booze recommendations but I didn’t come empty handed

Cursive Handwriting Workbook for Kids: 3-in-1 Writing Practice Book to Master Letters, Words & Sentences https://www.amazon.com/dp/1790852579/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_42llFbQVVRX2C

I would get whoever wrote that list this.

1. There is no way to do this. Education is done on the state and district levels. There is no way to fund individual schools with African Americans going to them.
2. School funding discrepancies are based around bad administration, not achievement.
3. African Americans actually receive more funding than other races.
4. There is no way to give elementary scholarships to African American students. Funding individuals wouldn't change anything because the teachers and school affect kids more than being able to buy these books or school supplies.

Two and three were from Richwine.

https://www.amazon.com/Russian-handwriting-practice-workbook-Handwriting/dp/B08JF5KRJM/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=russian+handwriting+workbook&qid=1652831995&sprefix=russian+handwr%2Caps%2C146&sr=8-2

There is that which could be useful.

I just got this for my son. He’s been having trouble with it, but it seems like a good starting point.

My First Learn-to-Write Workbook: Practice for Kids with Pen Control, Line Tracing, Letters, and More!

Nothing I said remotely implied the existence of semi automatic pistols.

Might I suggest this book, the reviews on Amazon portray it as quite useful

https://www.amazon.com/Wipe-Clean-Control-Roger-Priddy/dp/031251395X/ref=mp_s_a_1_6?crid=14CP1EPA1B74Y&dchild=1&keywords=dry+erase+learning+book+toddler&qid=1635694256&sprefix=dry+erase+learn%2Caps%2C108&sr=8-6

This is the specific one I have but if you search “dry erase learn to write toddler” you’ll get a lot of good results.

Thank you!

And I'm by no means a handwriting or calligraphy expert, but I know that for calligraphy there's paper that has slant lines across the whole page to help calligraphers keep their slant consistent. Maybe something like this

Also practicing slow and building up speed can help too. If you feel like your pen would bleed too much if you go slow then maybe practice with a pencil!

For the boredom part, there are books that teach through jokes and riddles, like this one:

The Print Handwriting Workbook for Kids: Laugh, Learn, and Practice Print with Jokes and Riddles https://www.amazon.com/dp/1641524189/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_KZR83DEFS12RZZTHNNYS

If I'm just making a quick note for myself, it's really scruffy, but both cursive and block are very neat if I'm writing something for somebody else to read. When I was young, my parents got me to write and rewrite stuff over and over following examples in books like THIS.

I think the primary reason people don't have good handwriting now is because we are all so used to typing stuff out on computers and mobile devices, so without using the skill it's unlikely to improve.

First, how do you hold the paper? Do you write from underneath the letters or hooked over?

Second, get yourself some first-grade handwriting workbooks. It's like if you sat down and tried to teach yourself piano and you could manage stuff but when you tried to play longer pieces you couldn't, because your finger position wasn't right.

A piano teacher would put you right back to fingering exercises and scales.

If you don't have the basics, you're gonna mess up the advanced stuff and you need to go back and get the basics first. https://www.amazon.com/Print-Handwriting-Workbook-Kids-Practice/dp/1641524189/ref=zg_bs_3186_24