Author: Elizabeth FitzGerald

This package contains a Teacher’s Manual, Practice Sheets and Cursive Phonogram Cards. Cursive First may be used with a beginner just learning how to write or with an older student who is transitioning to cursive. It has been designed to coordinate with the instructions for introducing the phonograms which are found in The WISE Guide.

The Teacher’s Manual includes discussion and instruction regarding the rationale for teaching cursive first, developmental consideration , the sequence of teaching with the beginning or transitioning writer, and advice for detecting visual and perceptual problems.

The Practice Sheets include detailed instruction and dialog for teaching numerals, cursive strokes, and the first 26 phonograms. The Practice Sheet masters are reproducible for each child in the classroom or family.

The Cursive Phonogram Cards include instructions for teaching penmanship and provide practice for reading numerals and the first 26 phonograms in cursive in order to encourage instant recall.

Advantages of Cursive First

Multiple-age adaptability

Efficient paper use

Lower-case letters taught separately

Clock face reference tool use

Narrow-ruled practice pages

Cost-effective & reproducible

Numeral-writing instruction

Coordinates with The WISE Guide

Reinforces motor patterns