Writing Masters: Blackline Books

ACTIVITIES FOR STUDENTS TO TRACE OR COPY

"Beautiful Handwriting" was created in Montessori classrooms 20 years ago. It is based on a 3-period sequence~students trace, then copy, then compose. Use it to introduce the correct formation of cursive, D'Nealian or Print writing when children are drawn to it, usually ages 4 - 4.5 for girls and 4.5 - 5.5 for boys. Introduce numerals first, then letters in small meetings and one on one with students. Model the work. Begin on the black dot and whisper the name of the letter "t" and trace down and across the shaded lines! As the student advances through the series the dot is gone. They continue to trace the patterns as they progress. Writing on the line is presented in the Story Blacklines. $8.00 EACH

"I am always doing what I cannot do yet in order to learn how to do it." Vincent Van Gogh