Tracing Copywork Italic Kindergarten Tracing First Grade Copywork Homeschool Handwriting Curriculum Charlotte Mason Beginner Italic Copywork

Italic Tracing Copywork for your Kindergarten or First Grade Student!

Italic handwriting is a simple and beautiful method for teaching letter formation to your kindergarten or first-grade student. Italics provides a simple transition to cursive while teachings students beautiful letter formation at the very earliest stages.

However, once each letter is taught and practiced, most programs transition to traditional copywork, having the student look at a word or phrase and write it in their own hand. Because early writers are still developing their letter formation and fine motor skills, this can lead to practicing poor handwriting.

Tracing a model that follows the same letter formation pattern can help students develop the muscle memory needed to master beautiful letters as they grow.

These italic tracing copywork sheets use familiar nursery rhymes to give students practice with precise letter formation without the dull repetition of the same letter over and over.

By tracing a perfect model, the student's own letter formation will begin to conform to the model.

Nursery Rhymes Included:
-Mary Had A Little Lamb
-Humpty Dumpty
-Jack Be Nimble
-Little Miss Muffet
-Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
-Over in the Meadow
-Hey Diddle Diddle
-Itsy Bitsy Spider
-Mary Mary Quite Contrary
-Are You Sleeping (Brother John)
-Old King Cole
-Rock-A-Bye Baby

Features:
-Getty-Dubay Italic font
-Baseline, headline, and dotted midline
-Dotted text so the student can see their tracing over it
-A dot indicating where to begin each letter
-Varied length rhymes for lots of practice

What You Receive:
-1 PDF of 12 Nursery Rhymes in Tracing Font
-1 PDF of the same Nursery Rhymes in Larger Font