Handwriting

The traditional handwriting method most of us learned in school is used by A Beka, Concerned Communications (A Reason for Handwriting), School of Tomorrow, Christian Liberty Press, and Alpha Omega, while Bob Jones University Press and Rod and Staff offer the slant print method. Rod and Staff prefaces the learning of slant printing with the traditional ball and stick, resulting in a “two-transition” handwriting curriculum—ball and stick to slant print to cursive. A Beka Book offers the option of either manuscript printing or cursive for kindergarten.

Resources

Traditional Method/Ball-and-Stick

A Beka's Handwriting program
Christian Liberty Handwriting program
Copy Books I, II, and III, Copy Book Cursive I, Composition and Sketch Book I
Handwriting Practice Books 1-5 OR Handwriting Skills Simplified Books A-F from Essential Learning Products
Happy Handwriting
Landmark’s Freedom Baptist Curriculum (LFBC) Penmanship course
Peterson Directed Handwriting
Pretty Pages and Beautiful Borders
ReadyWriter
A Reason for Handwriting

Slant Print/Simplified Cursive

Handwriting for Christian Schools (BJUP)
D'Nealian Handwriting
Italic Handwriting
New American Cursive