Cursive

September 24, 2011 | Posted in: Class Updates

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You may have heard that PGS has an unprecedented number of new students this year.  One challenge for new students is learning the style of cursive we use in Avon.  There are many different cursive styles available to school districts, and kids from other schools may have learned a different variety of cursive – or, perhaps, no cursive at all.  Our style is a variation of the standard Zaner Bloser – but (finally) gone are the capital Q’s that look like the number 2.

Cursive is assessed on the gr. 4 report card (three times each year), but because cursive was primarily taught in third grade, my focus is more on maintaining skills.  You’ll find cursive worksheets occasionally coming home for homework, and your son or daughter’s cursive grade is based primarily on cursive assessments that I administer toward the end of the marking periods.  I do not normally require students to write in cursive, although they are encouraged to do so.  Some students are able to write much more neatly in cursive, while others find it more difficult to integrate clear penmanship into their cursive writing.  If your son or daughter learned a different style of cursive in his or her former school (in gr. 3), please let me know.  I do not expect students to unlearn an old version just to fit our series, and I’ll grade these students based on the cursive style they learned.

This is a sample of the cursive series we use at PGS.  I’ll try to find a full-size version to upload so your child can more easily refer to it at home.