McGuffey's Eclectic Primer, Revised Edition · Lesson Script Alphabet · Part 11: The last lessons and slate work
54. Script alphabet and figures optional
Goal: Your child matches a few script letters to the printed letters, and copies the figures.
You'll need
- The book, open to the lesson
- A slate, small whiteboard or paper and pencil
What's in the book
The script alphabet (handwriting letters, capital and small) and the script figures, for copying.
The lesson, step by step
Find the letters you know
Turn to the page headed Script Alphabet. Your child finds the script letters for their own name, with your help.
Match print and script
Point to a printed letter in any lesson, then find the same letter in the script alphabet. Do four or five.
Copy a few letters
Your child copies three or four script letters onto the slate, slowly.
The figures
Look at the figures on the same page. Your child says each one, then copies 1 to 5.
Wrap up
Your child writes their own name in script on the slate, with your help.
Afterwards
Copy a few script letters each day, until your child can read the script lines in the lessons alone.
Tip
Use this page alongside the lessons from about Lesson V on, whenever a lesson has a script line.