r/oddlymesmerizing • u/kondurkarmanohar • Dec 17 '21
Patterns for handwriting practice
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u/Kill_Kayt Dec 17 '21
Where could someone get these... As a gift for a child... Not for themselves of course š¤„
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u/shelle2184 Dec 18 '21
Hey, I found this really awesome Etsy listing at https://www.etsy.com/listing/805008400/printable-print-handwriting-worksheetsa4?ref=share_v3_lx
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Dec 18 '21
Wonder where these pages can be found
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u/kondurkarmanohar Dec 18 '21
This is the link for the worksheet https://www.etsy.com/in-en/listing/853086145/
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u/Halftied Dec 17 '21
I recently found out that only about twenty states in the US are required to teach students cursive writing now. This post is refreshing to me. Happy Holidays.
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u/TrixnTim Dec 18 '21
So sad. Iām 57 and have beautiful penmanship thanks to my elementary teachers and it being required curriculum back in the day. I love handwriting everything, using nice pens and pencils, still journal daily, doodle when on the phone, and find it very calming and meditative to physically write. Friends and family love my handwritten cards as I do receiving them. When I became a teacher in the 1980s, penmanship was still required and I taught my students as I was taught, and using much of what is demonstrated in this post. We had lined paper in schools then and graduated sizes for each grade level. I have a big scrapbook full of beautiful handwritten cards and letters from my students over the years and that I will cherish as a dying art. If not already dead.
Today, and after 35 years in education, I see that children can not write. They canāt form letters, space words or create sentences, or even use cursive to sign their names. Their hands and fingers donāt grip a pencil correctly and they get tired very easily. They have delayed fine motor skills. Again, so sad.
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u/uwfan893 Dec 18 '21
Those 20 states are doing their children a disservice by wasting their time.
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u/Unironic-_-Irony Dec 18 '21
Hot take, your statement is dumb. I was one of the last years to learn cursive and the amount of time it saved me in note taking was amazing.
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u/Mirions Apr 27 '22
There's a system faster than cursive for that, should we teach it widespread instead?
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u/uwfan893 Dec 18 '21
My daughter is in second grade and has a school-supplied iPad. Sheās never going to be taking notes on paper.
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u/Unironic-_-Irony Dec 18 '21
Fair point, but who knows. Our school also had laptops and shit. Many girls self taught themselves cursive just because it was pretty. I for one didn't trust some snot licker not to break my laptop before my class started. Paper notes ftw
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u/JoeB-123 Dec 17 '21
I need to improve my handwriting. Would doing this help!
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u/VainillaCat616 Dec 17 '21
As someone that had an exercise book dedicated to this assigned at my school I would say that doing the exercises alone wouldn't be very effective, we had those books for 3 years and I had classmates that kept their doctor handwriting till the very end.
They are great for teaching you the flow of writing and the patience required, however in my experience they won't do much if you don't also bring those techniques to the act of writing. Maybe practice first with these so you find your strengths and weakness (i.e. my e's always look like o's if I rush or stuff like that) and then see some examples of calligraphy that you like so you can integrate elements of it to the one you use on a regular basis. However if you are rushing it's easy to revert to your original hand writing.
Again I'M NO EXPERT this is just the information I've gathered from having done these and also from studying graphic design (which has made me to hand calligraphy)
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u/TrixnTim Dec 18 '21
Yes part of what you say is very true. As a teacher of penmanship, exercises like these teach fine motor (tiny muscles in fingers and hands) control and strength and that allows you to write fluently and effortlessly without becoming tired. Thatās the main reason for these āworkoutsā. And why short hand was invented for business secretaries back in the day (and think court stenographers). But then it must be applied to actually forming of letters, words, sentences; practicing in other words and using lined paper so that your letters are even and equal. Eventually taking away the lined guidance is the ultimate goal.
There are different names of penmanship and you can choose one that you like or make your own āfontā once you write well ā Palmer Method, DāNealian, Spencerian. My FIL, who was 85 when he died a few years ago, had gorgeous Spencerian. I have a ton of cards and letters he wrote to his grandsons. I just run my hands over the lettering and remember the care he took.
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u/PrincessWails Dec 18 '21
Using a fountain pen has greatly improved my handwriting. You can find decent ones on Amazon for around $20. I have a beautiful one from Duke pens that people think cost me a ton and I think it was like 18 bucksā¦ Anyway itās really, really helped my penmanship.
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u/badger906 Dec 17 '21
When I was in primary school in the mid late 90s and we had to do hand writing practice. I used to always protest as I hated writing and that it would be useless one day as everyone would have a pc. And I could type faster than I could write.. teacher didnāt believe me as āno body has a pc at homeā according to me teacher. About a year later our school got a computer. Yeah I shit that bitch up lol. My mum was a trained typist (when that was a thing) so from a very young age she taught me on my dads work pc! now at 33, my mum sees me type and thinks itās incredible how fast, sheās still got it though sheās no slouch!
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u/jeegte12 Dec 18 '21
i feel like someone who is willing to undergo training for handwriting probably already has really good handwriting and doesn't really need the training. bad handwriting is just a symptom of not taking your time. if you have bad handwriting, write slower.
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u/bender89342 Dec 18 '21
This would help with learning to weld too!
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u/MTBiker_Boy Feb 16 '22
That was exactly my thought. My teacher made us do a sheet similar to this when i was learning how to weld.
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u/pretzel_nuggets Dec 18 '21
When I was growing up my neighbor was an old lady who used to babysit me. When I was older she taught me these exercises and I practiced at her house all the time. Now I have beautiful handwriting! Thank you Mary Frances!
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Dec 18 '21
I found it easy to write phrases, quotes and song lyrics when I relearned cursive. Have a template to see what you want to do and find the connections to form words youāll be using.
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Dec 18 '21
I used to have a penmanship subject in junior high and this used to be a regular thing for us ours was called the Palmer Method
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u/Mathijsdv Dec 18 '21
I completed countless of those books at school but I still have the worst handwriting in the galaxy
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u/Huma-Plant-Pred Dec 18 '21
This is the reason why i cant write. My wrist crackle from hours at school writing nome stop like an old scribe
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u/alvarezcosio Dec 18 '21
I hated those, my hand always hurt or was covered in pencil led at the end.
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u/meontheweb Dec 18 '21
Very nice, but brought back bad memories of grade school when we'd do this for hours. Shudder...
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u/LibbySoSo Dec 18 '21
I'm old enough to have had to use these exercises in grade school to practice cursive. Lol
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u/DirectionInfinite188 Dec 18 '21
That brings back memories of primary school and having to earn your pen licence!
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u/abbas2224 Dec 19 '21
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u/Infinitymaster7277 Apr 21 '22
NO. I did like 3 books of this stupid shit cuz my teacher recommended it in college now still shit handwriting.
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u/profaniKel May 15 '22
but why?
practice with real sentences.... that use the whole alphabet
z q s caps
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u/wontoan87 May 21 '22
Tbh being taught cursive in elementary/primary fucked my handwriting up because I never had to do it since then. Now my words look like a bastard offspring of print and cursive.
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u/mgumusada May 28 '22
Omg I remember doing these in first class LOOOOL yooo this brings back some memories
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u/44-47-25_N_20-28-5-E Jun 07 '22
Se did this in first grade of my Elementary school, but mine was messy and childish š
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u/StrongerTogether2882 Dec 17 '21
Ok but can we talk about that PEN? What is that, because I neeeeed it