The Palmer Method of Business Writing · Lesson 62 · Part 10: Figures
57. Drill 77: figure practice
Goal: Your child practices the figures in the drill, small and the same size.
You'll need
- Wide-ruled lined paper (several sheets)
- A sharp pencil or a smooth gel pen
- The book open at today's page
What's in the book
Lesson 62 is drill 77, a figure drill, with a note that two weeks should go to figure practice.
The lesson, step by step
Warm up
About three minutes: compact ovals, then a line each of small o, small m and small l (drills 3, 11, 14 and 33).
Then one line of 1's.
Look at the model
Open the book page. Look at drill 77. The book gives this lesson the drill only, and a note on the next page: two weeks should be spent on figures, with frequent reviews and most practice on the hardest ones.
Practice the drill
Copy the figures in drill 77, a line of each, as small as the book's.
Use the counts
Count out loud for each figure: "one, two, three" for 2, 3, 4 and 5, "one, two" for 6, 7 and 9, as in Lesson 61.
Gentle check
Which figure is hardest? Mark it. It gets an extra line every day this week.
Finish
Write your phone number or house number in small figures.