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Go to the website and and scroll around - it's fairly helpful
We started with Can-Do Print
Price: $7.50 Code: DP Grade: Gr. 5

Can-Do Print is for fifth graders or older students who prefer print to cursive, but still need practice.
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It's all the same stuff, but for Printing 'Can-Do' presents itself in a less 'babyish' manner, which was important for DS.

Enjoy,
Grinity

Well, we ordered the Handwriting Without Tears book. I'll post again when we've tried it out for awhile. Hope it works!

In the meantime, DS7 had a book report to do today. Since it wasn't for spelling, we decided we'd let him type it if he wanted. Much less stressful for the parents! He still complained about doing it, but that's another story. No crying, anyway! And he liked signing his name in a fancy font.

We too are having handwriting woes with my youngest It seems different this time around. Not sure what worked with DD9 will work with DD6. With my nine year old, I did find MyAccess to be helpful in terms of giving us a structure in which to practice essay writing. I also found a creative writing course over the holidays to be a wonderful way of focusing on story threads and making 'writing' seem much less like a chore and something more akin to painting a picture.

I've just discovered "The Word Spy" and "The Return of the Word Spy" which are really lovely grammar books. They're really quite complimentary with the maths we're doing at the moment ie., palindromes. The books are probably quite suitable for say 6-10 year olds (?)

I've found with DD6 - who isn't sure she wants help just yet - that giving her access to exactly the right type of pen and paper is really important. Some of the dotted line paper is just overwhelming for someone with poor perceptual positioning and she just can't work out where she's supposed to put her letters! So playing around with the basic tools of the trade can really help.

Hope you have some luck with HWT. Would love to get your feedback on this...

jojo