Zaner-Bloser Handwriting Grade 4: Student & Teacher Editions (Homeschool Bundle --- 2016 Edition)

Zaner-Bloser Handwriting is a complete handwriting program that can be taught in as little as 15 minutes a day! The Zaner-Bloser style teaches a cursive alphabet that is made up of four basic strokes: the undercurve, downcurve, overcurve, and slant. This kit includes the student edition, practice masters, and teacher's edition.

The fourth-grade cursive student workbook provides cursive reinforcement. Engaging exercises include tracing and writing letters, joining words, sentences, and paragraphs, with review and application exercises included throughout. Students will think about shape, size, spacing, and slant as the keys to legibility. The last unit is about using what you have learned and focuses on real-life applications of cursive handwriting in situations like writing an invitation, writing a friendly letter, taking notes, and more.

Directional features include:

• Letter models with arrows to show stroke sequence


• Stop-and-check signs to remind students to self-evaluate their letters


• Space to practice writing directly beneath models (that both left-and right-handed students can easily see)


• Better Letters tip boxes


• Pencil Illustrated Friend to give hints on what stroke begins letters

The easy-to-use teacher's edition features three-step lessons that follow a simple instructional plan of model, practice, and evaluate. This guide includes:

• Clearly stated objectives that guide instruction


• Short, clear stroke descriptions that use academic language and give teachers the exact words to use when modeling


• Instructions to model using skywriting with large muscle movements that reinforce the motor patterns for forming strokes and letters


• References to Practice Masters (not included) that allow the teacher to match additional practice to students' needs


• Multiple opportunities to differentiate instruction, including ELL, gross & fine motor development activities, and multisensory activities for kinesthetic, auditory, and visual learners

This Homeschool Kit includes:

• Student Edition: 112 perforated pages, indexed softcover. Non-reproducible; consumable workbook. Approximately 9 x 11. Grade 4.


• Teacher Edition

This updated edition includes new authentic writing activities for applying handwriting skills to narrative, informative/explanatory, and opinion or argument writing tasks. In addition, Handwriting Tutor QR codes have been added; students can scan the QR codes with a mobile device to watch animated letter models and how-to videos.

Please note that this item is only available for purchase by Homeschools located in the USA and Canada.