Handwriting practice introducing letters and numbers in Sunshine Script order and form to promote motor memory and automaticity of writing. Students begin by tracing and proceed to writing freely. Traffic light theme reminds students where to start, turn and stop when forming letters and numbers. Spelling and review pages are introduced after each of 4 'team' groups.

Format:
8.5 X 11, landscape, 50 pages

Printing instructions:
Print in black and white on standard copy paper, 3 hole-punched. Needs a report cover or three-ring binder. May be broken into four ‘team’ books (see workbook Table of Contents) and stapled. Some teachers prefer to hand out loose pages.

Related Resources:
Use Writing Lines for more scripting practice on the same line scale.

This is an appropriate time to introduce the Phonics Practice Book for further scripting practice and for reinforcing the sound/symbol connection.

Teaching Recommendations:
Appropriate for second semester kindergarten or first semester 1st grade, or for older students who need more practice to refine skill and gain speed in scripting. Letter size is scaled down with emphasis on repetition and speed, encouraging refinement and automaticity.

While it is important that children associate upper and lower case forms of the same letter, at this stage of learning, we focus on muscle/motor memory development which is achieved by the repetition of similar direction and stroke patterns. Sunshine Script presentation order suspends the usual A-Z and instead groups letters and numbers into four ‘teams’ by their similar forming patterns. You will notice that upper and lowercase ‘Dd’, ‘Ff’, and ‘Hh’ are introduced separately, because they belong to different teams.

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