Homeschooling News Café Blog consists of the most current and relevant education news. Electronic reproduction of this article is permitted if content is published unchanged, appropriate credit is given, and the article title links to corresponding article webpage.”>It’s an unavoidable fact that we do most of our communication through computers these days and thus, home-school children will most likely remind parents of this fact when it’s time to study cursive. However, home-schoolers need to know that keyboards have not made good old pen-and-paper writing obsolete. We still write checks, notes, letters, memos, and more every day in today’s fast-pace work environment. Learning how to write is an invaluable skill and one that refines motor skills and reading abilities in the process.
The three major elements that make up cursive are letter formation, letter size, and letter slant. Home-school students should learn cursive in that order. Start off with providing your students with a guide conveying the proper way to write each letter. Then, provide them with some writing samples illustrating some common cursive mistakes. Have your students correct these samples. You should encourage each home-school student to develop his or her personal style. Cursive should not mimic the sample writing you provide. Some students will have thin, gaunt letters; others will have squat, jolly letters. What’s important here is not that each home-school child conforms to a set standard, but that their letters are uniform across words. Praise your child for developing a unique font. Legibility is the only thing that should limit the home-school student’s imagination. To ensure that your home-school students are writing proper slant, write lines through the center of each letter. Symmetry is important here as well as consistency in slant from letter to letter. The angle should be uniform across letters and words. If it helps, you can have the home-school student slant his or her paper to encourage proper slant. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Mimi Rothschild is a homeschooling mother, writer, children’s rights advocate, and Founder and C.E.O. of home education company Learning by Grace, Inc. She and her husband of 28 years reside with their 8 children right outside Philadelphia, PA. Rothschild launched Learning By Grace, Inc. because she believed that our nation’s public school system has failed parents and students. Learning By Grace, Inc. offers online education through a multimedia-rich curriculum to PreK-12 children across the country and throughout the world. An accomplished author, Rothschild has written books regarding education published by McGraw Hill and others. Her Homeschooling News Café Blog consists of the most current and relevant education news. Electronic reproduction of this article is permitted if content is published unchanged, appropriate credit is given, and the article title links to corresponding article webpage.
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