Grade 6 provides copywork for students in order to strengthen and maintain cursive skills. Passages are taken from Aesop, Proverbs, epigrams, riddles, prayers, and more - essentially words of wisdom from around the world. An added feature is students writing letters in other languages (such as Latin and Chinese) and eve composing their own words of wisdom.
Horizons Penmanship Grade 6 Set
Description
Teach your child to improve his or her handwriting with words of wisdom from around the world. As they practice cursive and manuscript, students copy passages from ancient writings and classic literature such as Aesop's fables, epigrams, riddles, prayers, blessings, virtues, and African, Brazilian, Chinese, Jewish, and Russian proverbs. In addition, students have fun composing their own fables, proverbs, riddles, rules of life, and list of virtues, as well as writing characters and words in languages like Farsi, French, Greek, Latin, Navajo, Old English, and Swahili.
Containing 160 student lessons, the Horizons 6th Grade Penmanship Set includes one student book with removable pages and one corresponding teacher's guide. These materials may be purchased individually. The teacher's guide includes a lesson planner, duplication masters, teaching tips, and additional worksheets.
With Horizons Penmanship, traditional handwriting models are paired with attention to pencil grip, paper position, posture, stroke, letter height, spacing, capitalization, and punctuation. Quality copy material is included, such as children’s poetry, Bible stories, parables, historical documents, Aesop’s fables and other words of wisdom (Gr. 6). This is often coupled with Bible verses (NIV) at all levels.
Lessons are organized into 32 units of five, one-page lessons, concentrating on a particular skill or letter group each week. The weekly fifth lesson is a decorative picture page on which the student writes a selected Bible verse or copywork passage. Teacher’s Guides include reproducible extra practice pages along with other reproducible pages. It would be very difficult to do the program without using the TGs because copywork models are only partially included in the Student Books.
Although a print (manuscript) model is provided for practice during the week, the Teacher’s Guide provides another version (usually cursive) of the model for the student to work from for the final “penmanship performance” of the week. In Gr. 5 there is an optional additional copywork activity for each week – an excerpt from a presidential inaugural address. An added feature is students writing letters in other languages (such as Latin and French) and even composing their own words of wisdom.
| Product Format: | Other |
|---|---|
| Grade: | 6 |
| Brand: | Alpha Omega Publications |
| ISBN: | 9781563712951 |
| Length in Inches: | 11 |
| Width in Inches: | 8.5 |
| Height in Inches: | 1.5 |
| Weight in Pounds: | 2.9 |
