Ten Reasons to Teach Cursive

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Cursive is not only a disappearing art, it is a skill that can and should be taught to children at a young age (or learned at any age!). Ten reasons to teach cursive are:

  1. Relative ease in introducing cursive penmanship to preschoolers.
  2. Prevents reversals and confusion of letters
  3. Enhance spelling ability
  4. Develops internal control systems that can be used as tool for learnin
  5. Potential for errors are diminished
  6. Improved reading skills
  7. Enforces the skills for patterns in reading and writing
  8. Prevents erratic spaces between letters and words
  9. Helps Left Handed Children
  10. Use as a tool to put thoughts on paper quickly and easily

Source: Samuel L. Blumenfield, “How Should We Teach Our Children to Write? Cursive First, Print Later!

How To Write in Cursive – The HEV Project – Lesson 1

这套学习Cursive的视频是我在youtube上找的,版权属于The HEV Project。

HEV是homeschool educational videos的缩写,是一个在家教育的爸爸搞的,下面是他网站上的简介:

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网站貌似有一段时间没有更新了,facebook上最后一篇日志是2015年7月10日……他在youtube上开了一个频道,youtube.com/thehevproject,下面是简介: (更多…)

Cursive Writing (by Stefanie Pitzer)

英文花体的书写有很多的讲究,正如中文字的书写,这个视频,可以作为初步的了解。

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她里面介绍英文的字母分为:

  • loop letters 圆环形字母
  • up/down letters 上下形字母
  • two o’clock letters
  • hump letters 驼峰形字母

不同形的字母,有其特殊的构成笔画,但所有的字母,都是由一些基础的笔画构成,我感觉就像中文的横竖撇捺点。在Thomas M. Wasylyk的Introduction to Cursive for Grade 2里,就有分步的基础练习,如下图:

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http://www.upub.net/Original-Handwriting-Book-MC-Prodview.html

比较悲催,作者Stefanie说更多的信息请访问https://blog.educreations.com/,可是这个站点死活都打不开,翻墙也不行……