Zaner-Bloser Handwriting is a complete handwritingprogram that can be taught in as little as 15 minutes a day!The Zaner-Bloser style teaches a vertical manuscriptalphabet that is made up of only four simple strokes and issimilar to the letter forms most widely used in everydayprint. This kit includes the student edition, practicemasters, and teacher's edition.
The sixth gradecursive workbook focuses on manuscript and cursivemaintenance. Engaging exercises include tracing and writingletters, joinings, words, sentences, and longer passages.Review and application exercises are included throughoutwith shape, size, spacing and slant emphasized as the keysto legibility. The last unit is "Using What You HaveLearned" and emphasizes the importance of legibility (whilenoting how everyone's handwriting is unique!) and featuresexercises based in real-life. Original writing exerciseshelp apply handwriting skills to narrative, explanatory, andopinion-based writing tasks. This student workbook includes"Handwriting Tutor" QR codes; students can scan the QR codeswith a mobile device to watch animated letter models andhow-to videos.
Directional features include:
- Letter models with arrows to show strokesequence
- Green starting dots that show studentswhere initial strokes begin
- Stroke descriptions to guideletter formation at home
- Stop-and-check signs to remindstudents to self-evaluate their letters
- Space topractice writing directly beneath models (that both left-andright-handed students can easily see)
Theeasy-to-use teacher's edition features three-steplessons that follow a simple instructional plan of model,practice, and evaluate. This guide includes:
- Clearly stated objectives that guideinstruction.
- Short, clear stroke descriptions thatuse academic language and give teachers the exact words touse when modeling.
- Instructions to model usingskywriting with large muscle movements that reinforce themotor patterns for forming strokes and letters.
- References to Practice Masters (not included) that allowthe teacher to match additional practice to students' needs.
- Multiple opportunities to differentiate instructionincluding ELL, gross & fine motor development activities,and multisensory activities for kinesthetic, auditory, andvisual learners.
The practice masters providestudents with additional practice for every letter and skilland offer school-to-home activities/letters to reinforcecorrect letter formation at home. This set of practicemasters also includes manipulative and multisensory learningactivities along with additional handwriting support such asreproducibles of the Zaner-Bloser alphabets, awardcertificates, handwriting basics, and handwriting paper.
This Homeschool Kit includes:
- StudentEdition, 80 perforated pages, indexed, softcover.Non-reproducible; consumable workbook. Approximately 9" x11". Grade 6.
- Practice Masters
- TeacherEdition
This 2020 edition features updates to thebasic strokes plus a new "reading historical documents"feature in the student workbook; QR codes have been added tothe practice masters.
Please note that this itemis only available for purchase by Homeschools located in theUSA and Canada.
