Over the past several weeks, Brock has been able to use a lovely handwriting book from Laurelwood Books called Patriotic Penmanship–Transition to Cursive (PP-Transition). Written by Mary Ellen Tedrow, PP-Transition is but one of the books she has written in the Patriotic Penmanship series. She has written Patriotic Penmanship books suitable for students in first grade through senior high.
Mary Ellen Tedrow has been the owner and operator or Laurelwood Books for over twenty years. As a homeschooling mother of 7, she is passionate about “helping every mom, regardless of income or education level, to train up their children in the way they should go!” She has also written the Rosemary Sutcliff Study Guides and the Emma Leslie Church History Series Study Guides.
Each lesson shows the passage as both print and cursive. Then there are multiple opportunities for the student to trace and write both the print and cursive versions. Each two-page lesson is designed to be one week’s worth of penmanship; providing twenty weeks of assignments.
The Transition book works well for those student who are making the transition from manuscript to cursive or for those who seek to have better penmanship in both (as the case with Brock). For those students who are transitioning to cursive, PP-Transition would be excellent. It allows them to see it both manuscript and cursive making it easier for them to read what they are writing in cursive.
What Did We Think?
I really like that PP-Transition offers practice for both print and cursive in the same book! This works well if the student is making the switch from print to cursive. It also works well for improving handwriting in general, which was the goal with Brock. I wanted him to have to opportunity to improve both his print and cursive writing. With PP-Transition he has been able to work on both at the same time.
Brock has enjoyed the topics in PP-Transitions, especially those from American patriots since he really likes American History. His handwriting is improving which was the goal. (We can’t all have doctor scribbles, right? Ha) Based on our experience, I would definitely recommend the Patriotic Penmanship series of workbooks.
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Other members of the Schoolhouse Review Crew reviewed other Patriotic Penmanship books, as well as, State the Facts: a Guide to Studying Your State, Olim, Once Upon a Time in Latin: Derivatives I and books from the Scripture Scribes Series: His Name is Wonderful , One Another, and Men of Honor and Women of Grace. I encourage you to check out these other reviews by clicking the banner below.
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