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Resources for the homeschooler on end of the year assessments and portfolios.

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Basic Cursive Handwriting. It’s a skill that all children need to learn well. Your handwriting is a personal thing, an extension of yourself. It gives strangers a small insight into who you are. Thank you letters to friends and family are received with warmth and compassion if the note is written by hand. Love notes are made personal and feeling when written by the hand of the one you love. So why is it that so many children are rushed through this class, not learning basic skills that makes their handwriting legible?

You can help your child learn to write legibly. With our Basic Cursive Handwriting font, you can create worksheets that are specifically tailored to your child’s individual needs. Does Billy make perfect i’s and e’s but can’t make an o? Make a worksheet that focuses on ‘o’ words! Want to provide some fun practice? Make a worksheet that includes the child’s name, or the name of a family member, or even the flavor of their favorite ice-cream!

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These worksheets aren’t connected to any one lesson or article, but you are free to download and use them as you see fit. They were made at random times throughout the twenty-ish years we’ve been homeschooling, sometimes rather quickly. Some of them we still use; many of them were one-shot wonders, needed only for a specific purpose at one point in time. Instead of letting them die a cold death when we were done with them, I put them here in case someone else can use them.

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