Handwriting

Doodles & Pre-writing for Littles is designed for children between the ages of 2 1/2 and 5 years old who are ready to develop the dexterity and coordination of small muscles as well as the mental focus needed to write.

This level focuses on the strokes and forms used to create letters and common shapes and is designed to help small children develop the fine motor skills necessary for writing. The course is divided into three sections:

1. Continuous motions of curves, loops, waves, and spirals. Shapes: circle, oval, ellipse, quatrefoil, and curved triangle.
2. Changing directions with straight lines, angles, and zigzags. Shapes: triangle, square, rhombus, parallelogram, trapezoid, pentagon, and hexagon.
3. Combining different forms and shapes from sections one and two to create letters or more complex shapes, such as hearts and stars, and finding shapes in nature.

This workbook includes 100 sheets, which is 3–4 sheets per week for a normal school year. Each sheet provides an opportunity for the child to color, improving both coloring and motor skills. The doodles, forms, and shapes the child practices are all connected to nature or other common objects in a child’s world.

• Wire Binding
• Black and White with One Color
• 8.5”x5.5″

Doodles & Pre-writing for Littles: Part 2 is designed for children between the ages of 2 1/2 and 5 years old who are ready to develop the dexterity and coordination of small muscles as well as the mental focus needed to write.

This level focuses on the strokes and forms used to create letters and common shapes and is designed to help small children develop the fine motor skills necessary for writing. The course is divided into four sections:

1. Shapes & Strokes: provides a comprehensive review of the shapes and strokes learned in Doodles & Pre-writing for Littles: Part 1.
2. Letters: Familiarize children with letters and the kinds of strokes used for letters.
3. Trace & Try: allows children to trace shapes and strokes, then draw the same shape or stroke freehand.
4. Bonus Section—Find the Image: provides images hidden within a picture that children find and circle or color.

This workbook includes 115 sheets, which is 4–5 sheets per week for a normal school year. Each sheet provides an opportunity for the child to color, improving both coloring and motor skills. The doodles, forms, and shapes the child practices are all connected to nature or other common objects in a child’s world.

• Wire Binding
• Black and White with One Color
• 8.5”x5.5″

Handwriting Level K is for children in kindergarten and focuses on the correct print formation of letters and numbers. This course introduces 2–3 new letters at a time, going in alphabetical order, and introduces short words and sentences near the end. Text size is reduced halfway through the course as the child gains the fine motor skills for smaller print. 

The Good and the Beautiful handwriting courses incorporate drawing activities to make handwriting more enjoyable and increase fine motor skills. This workbook includes 100 sheets, which is 3–4 sheets per week for an average school year. 

• Wire Binding
• Black and White with One Color
• 8.5”x5.5″

Handwriting Level 1 is for children in first grade and focuses on the correct print formation of letters and numbers. This course introduces 2–3 new letters at a time, going in the order of the most used letters, and introduces short words and sentences near the end. Text size is reduced halfway through the course as the child gains the motor skills for smaller print. 

The Good and the Beautiful handwriting courses include images, artwork, poetry, Bible verses, and quotes that support high character, faith, nature, and creativity. Drawing activities are incorporated throughout the course to make handwriting more enjoyable and increase fine motor skills. This workbook includes 100 sheets, which is 3–4 sheets per week for an average school year.

• Wire Binding
• Black and White with One Color
• 8.5”x11″

Handwriting Level 2 is for children in second grade. This course is for children with some handwriting experience who are still working on the correct print formation of letters and numbers. Words, sentences, Bible verses, and poems are introduced. Children review the spelling of numbers and learn to spell the names of colors. The text size in the course gets smaller as children gain experience with handwriting. 

The Good and the Beautiful handwriting courses include images, artwork, poetry, Bible verses, and quotes that support high character, faith, nature, and creativity. Drawing activities are incorporated throughout the course to make handwriting more enjoyable and increase fine motor skills. This workbook includes 100 sheets, which is 3–4 sheets per week for an average school year.

• Wire Binding
• Black and White with One Color
• 8.5”x11″

Handwriting Level 3 is for children in third grade. This course teaches cursive with a unique colored dot system developed by Jenny Phillips. The child follows the colored dots in the order of the rainbow, which makes it easy for children to correctly learn cursive with little to no help from parents. About 85% of the course focuses on teaching cursive and 15% of the course on cementing correct print formation. If children have no experience with cursive writing but are ready for it, they should start with this course. 

The Good and the Beautiful handwriting courses include images, artwork, poetry, Bible verses, and quotes that support high character, faith, nature, and creativity. Drawing activities are incorporated throughout the course to make handwriting more enjoyable and increase fine motor skills. This workbook includes 100 sheets, which is 3–4 sheets per week for an average school year.

• Wire Binding
• Full Color with Colored Dot System
• 8.5”x11″

Handwriting Level 4 is for children in fourth grade. This course focuses primarily on cementing correct cursive letter formation and on teaching how to write cursive words and sentences using a unique colored dot system developed by Jenny Phillips. This technique makes it easy for children to correctly learn cursive with little to no help from parents. Level 4 also reviews print letter formation. If children have no experience with cursive writing, they should start with the Level 3 Handwriting course.

The Good and the Beautiful handwriting courses include images, artwork, poetry, Bible verses, and quotes that support high character, faith, nature, and creativity. Drawing activities are incorporated throughout the course to make handwriting more enjoyable and increase fine motor skills. This workbook includes 100 sheets, which is 3–4 sheets per week for an average school year.

• Wire Binding
• Full Color with Colored Dot System
• 8.5”x11″

Handwriting Level 5 is for children in fifth grade. This course focuses on cursive but also has pages to help refine print handwriting. The text size for cursive writing gets smaller as the course progresses. This course also helps children memorize grammar rules and definitions. 

The Good and the Beautiful handwriting courses include images, artwork, poetry, Bible verses, and quotes that support high character, faith, nature, and creativity. Drawing activities are incorporated throughout the course to make handwriting more enjoyable. This workbook includes 100 sheets, which is 3–4 sheets per week for an average school year.

• Wire Binding
• Black and White with One Color
• 8.5”x11″

Handwriting Level 6 is for children in sixth grade. Children will be learning more than just cursive handwriting as they copy inspiring adages, Bible verses, skillfully written poetry, states and capitals, grammar rules, and presidents of the United States in order of presidency (the first six).

The text size for cursive writing gets smaller as the course progresses. Children will begin with copying cursive text and then move on to writing original sentences in cursive and converting manuscript print to cursive. This will help children to memorize the formation of cursive letters. This workbook includes 100 sheets, which is 3–4 sheets per week for an average school year.

• Wire Binding
• Black and White with One Color
• 8.5”x11″

Handwriting Level 7 is for children in seventh grade. Children will be learning more than just cursive handwriting as they copy inspiring adages, Bible verses, skillfully written poetry, the names of Canadian provinces and territories, foreign languages, states, capitals, and presidents of the United States.

Children will begin with copying cursive text and then move on to writing original sentences in cursive and converting manuscript print to cursive. This will help children to memorize the formation of cursive letters. This workbook includes 100 sheets, which is 3–4 sheets per week for an average school year.

• Wire Binding
• Black and White with One Color
• 8.5”x11″

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Doodles & Pre-writing for Littles is designed for most children between the ages of 2 1/2 and 5 years old who are ready to develop the dexterity and coordination of small muscles as well as the mental focus needed to write.

This level focuses on the strokes and forms used to create letters and common shapes and is designed to help small children develop the fine motor skills necessary for writing. This workbook includes 100 sheets, which is 3–4 sheets per week for a normal school year. The course is divided into three sections:
1. Skill: continuous motions. Forms: curves, loops, waves, and spirals. Shapes: circle, oval, ellipse, quatrefoil, and curved triangle.

2. Skill: changing directions. Forms: straight lines, angles, and zigzags. Shapes: triangle, square, rhombus, parallelogram, trapezoid, pentagon, and hexagon.

3. Skill: combining different forms and shapes from sections one and two to create letters or more complex shapes, such as hearts and stars, and finding
shapes in nature.

Each sheet in this course provides an opportunity for the child to color, improving both coloring and motor skills. The doodles, forms, and shapes the child practices are all connected to nature or other common objects in a child’s world.

The images, artwork, and words used in this course are all designed to connect children to the good and the beautiful: family, faith, high moral character, and the wonders and beauty of nature and human life.

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The images, artwork, and words used in this course are all designed to connect children to the good and the beautiful: family, faith, high moral character, and the wonders and beauty of nature and human life.

Doodles & Pre-writing for Littles: Part 2 is designed for most children between the ages of 21/2 and 5 years old who are ready to develop the dexterity and coordination of small muscles as well as the mental focus needed to write.

COURSE ORGANIZATION
This level focuses on the strokes and forms used to create letters and common shapes and is designed to help small children develop the fine motor skills necessary for writing. This workbook includes 115 sheets, which is 4–5 sheets per week for a normal school year. The course is divided into four sections:
1. Shapes & Strokes: provides a comprehensive review of the shapes and strokes learned in Doodles & Pre-writing for Littles: Part 1.
2. Letters: familiarizes children with letters and the kinds of strokes used for letters.
3. Trace & Try: allows children to trace shapes and strokes, then draw the same shape or stroke freehand.
4. Bonus Section—Find the Image: provides images hidden within a picture that children find and circle or
color.

COLORING AND NATURE
Each sheet in this course provides an opportunity for the child to color, improving both coloring and motor skills. The doodles, forms, and shapes the child practices are all connected to nature or other common objects in a child’s world.

115 worksheet pages

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Level K Handwriting focuses on correct print formation of letters and numbers and, near the end of the course, introduces short words and sentences.

This workbook includes 100 sheets, which is 3–4 sheets per week for an average school year. The course introduces 2–3 new letters at a time, going in alphabetical order. Halfway through the course the text size is reduced as the child gains the motor skills for smaller print.

• PDF for self-printing
• Black and white with one color, 8.5”x5.5″

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Handwriting Level 1 focuses on correct print formation of letters and numbers and, near the end of the course, introduces short words and sentences.

This workbook includes 100 sheets, which is 3–4 sheets per week for an average school year. Along with teaching correct print formation, this course also helps children practice spelling number words. The text size reduces halfway through the course as the child gains the motor skills for smaller print.

• PDF for self -printing
• Black and white with one color, 8.5”x11″

PDF for self-printing.

Handwriting Level 2 is for children in second grade. This course is for children with some handwriting experience who are still working on correct print formation of letters and numbers. Words, sentences, Bible verses, and poems are introduced part-way through the course. Text size is eventually reduced in the course as children gain experience with handwriting. This course also helps children learn to spell the names of colors and reviews the spelling of numbers. Handwriting 2 is side-bound.

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85% of the Handwriting Level 3 course focuses on teaching cursive with a unique colored dot system developed by Jenny Phillips. All the child has to do is follow the colored dots in order of the rainbow. This technique makes it easy for children to correctly learn cursive with little to no help from parents. About 15% of the course focuses on cementing correct print formation.

The images, artwork, and words used in this handwriting course are all designed to connect children to the good and the beautiful: family, faith, high moral character, and the wonders and beauty of nature and human life.

The course also exposes children to poetry, Bible verses, grammar rules, alphabetizing, and drawing.

100 lessons

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Handwriting Level 4 focuses primarily on cementing correct cursive letter formation and on teaching how to write cursive words and sentences with a unique colored dot system developed by Jenny Phillips. This program makes it easy for children to correctly learn cursive with little to no help from parents. Level 4 also includes print letter formation as review.

This course is divided into three sections. Each section covers new  principles with plenty of practice.

Section 1 guides the child through the formation of each letter of the alphabet in cursive. The child begins to connect letters into words by following The Good and the Beautiful cursive color dot system.
Section 2 teaches the child to write cursive words without color guides and prepares the child to write whole sentences in cursive without guides.
Section 3 teaches the child to write entire sentences in cursive while reinforcing correct print formation.

The course also includes fun, inspiring, and beautiful drawing projects throughout. The images, artwork, and words used in this handwriting course are all designed to connect children to the good and the beautiful: family, faith, high moral character, and the wonders and beauty of nature and human life.

This workbook includes 100 lessons, which is 3–4 lessons per week for a normal school year.

PDF for self-printing.

Handwriting Level 5 is for children in fifth grade.

Recently updated to refine the cursive font and include engaging new art and activities throughout, this course mainly focuses on cursive, but some pages cover refining print handwriting in specific ways. Inspiring quotes, scriptures, and poems are included in the course and may be included more than once for repeated exposure. This course also helps children memorize grammar rules and definitions.

PDF for self-printing.

Handwriting Level 6 is for children in sixth grade. The course focuses on cursive writing. If children have no experience with cursive writing, they should start with the Level 3 Handwriting course, which introduces cursive writing.

As children copy adages, Bible verses, skillfully written poetry, states and capitals, grammar rules, and presidents of the United States in order of presidency (the first six), children will be learning more than just cursive handwriting.

The text size for cursive writing gets smaller as the course progresses. Also, as the course progresses, instead of just copying cursive writing, children will write original sentences in cursive and convert manuscript print to cursive writing. This will help children to memorize the formation of cursive letters.

This workbook includes 100 sheets, which is 3–4 sheets per week for an average school year.

PDF for self-printing.

Handwriting Level 7 is for children in seventh grade. The course focuses on cursive writing.

As children copy inspiring adages, Bible verses, skillfully written poetry, the names of Canadian provinces and territories, foreign languages, states, capitals, and presidents of the United States, children will be learning more than just cursive handwriting.

As the course progresses, instead of just copying cursive writing, children will also write original sentences in cursive and convert manuscript print to cursive writing. This will help children to memorize the formation of cursive letters.

This workbook includes 100 sheets, which is 3–4 sheets per week for an average school year.