Handwriting Aids and LINKS to lesson sites & other helpful sites

[Ann Finley]

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Ideally, alphabet sentences should be fairly short and, hopefully make sense. I have a collection of them--some of which are quite contrived--such as, "Seven wildly panting fruit-flies gazed anxiously at the juicy bouncing kumquat." :blink: I've chosen some of the better sentences to list below. Most of us are already familiar with:

"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." Here are nine others:

 

1. Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.

2. Several fabulous dixieland jazz groups played with quick tempo.

3. Back in my quaint garden, jaunty zinnias vie with flaunting phlox.

4. Five or six big jet planes zoomed quickly by the new tower.

5. Exploring the zoo, we saw every kangaroo jump and quite a few carried babies.

6. I quickly explained that many big jobs involve few hazards.

7. Jay Wolf is quite an expert on the bass violin, guitar, dulcimer, ukulele and zither.

8. Expect skilled signwriters to use many jazzy, quaint old alphabets effectively.

9. The wizard quickly jinxed the gnomes before they vaporized.

Edited March 12, 2008 by Ann Finley

[Ann Finley]

Links to sites that offer handwriting instructions, tips, and/or images to aid in handwriting improvement.


James Pickering's italic handwriting directory page Many, many FPN members have received inspiration and good instructions from visiting his site!

Paul Antonio's site James Pickering posted this link to Paul's site recently. Paul has done some beautiful work that you may wish to view.

IAMPETH Lessons--Copperplate, Spencerian, Business Penmanship (cursive) and more.

Russ Stutler's Penmanship Links, our thanks to Elaine for this one!

more Guidelines, including curved ones This is software for making guidelines and offers a 30 day free trial. Elaine has reviewed this software here.

Copperplate Guidelines Kellet guidelines, our thanks to fifthblackbird.

American Cursive A summary of various writing styles with introduction, pictures and links thanks to Desultor.

Difficult Words Practice Sentences A collection of sentences made up of difficult words (i.e. words containing challenging letter combinations). Thanks to kiavonne.

 

Guideline Generators Links to free guideline generators.

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