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Copywork is an easy way for your child to practice writing conventions and to also learn grammar and spelling while practicing handwriting. Once you've been doing copywork for awhile, you can progress to dictation. We will be adding an article with all of the basics about these two homeschooling practices soon. In the meantime feel free to download some copywork pages! MANY more are coming soon.

Our copywork pages are available in the following fonts: Zaner-Bloser style manuscript, D'Nealian style print, Zaner-Bloser style cursive and D'Nealian style cursive. *We are also now offering a Getty-Dubay style Italic print and cursive due to an emailed request!

Our handwriting styles

Examples of the fonts we use

Getty-Dubay style print and cursive font

Coming soon, Handwriting Without Tears (HWT) cursive font and line style! Our youngest son is a leftie and just wasn't doing well with Zaner-Bloser cursive. I used HWT with him for printing, but switched when it was time for cursive because I didn't like the look of the Handwriting Without Tears cursive font. I have switched him back over to HWT and we are again having handwriting success. Because of this, I will be adding Handwriting Without Tears copywork / handwriting pages to the printables below. I just need to find the time to do it! :-)

Handwriting Without Tears cursive font

Choose whichever "font" you prefer. Each copywork / handwriting practice page has alternating lines of text and blank lines so it's easier and less frustrating for your child to copy. Lines are sized the same as "wide rule" notebook paper, which is 1 cm tall.

 

Handwriting Practice SheetsJennLovesJesus requested some alphabet handwriting practice pages and so here they are!
At the top of each page are two very large letters in a "dot" font to trace with room next to them for practice. Below is an empty space where your child can practice the letters without lines (paint, pastels, crayons and markers are suggested to make things "fun"). You can also use the space to draw in or paste in clip-art and/or pictures from a magazine, etc. Underneath the empty space are the two practice letters repeated. Lefties will appreciate the fact that there is always a model letter to the right to look at. I've kept the pages to a two letter maximum to keep handwriting practice from being overwhelming.

Choose which letters you'd like to work with from the tables below:

Alphabet Handwriting Practice - Capital Letters

Zaner-Bloser Style
Print

ABCDEF
GHI JKL
MNOPQR
STUVWX
YZ  

Zaner-Bloser Style Cursive

ABCDEF
GHI JKL
MNOPQR
STUVWX
YZ  

D'Nealian Style
Print

ABCDEF
GHI JKL
MNOPQR
STUVWX
YZ  

D'Nealian Style
Cursive

ABCDEF
GHI JKL
MNOPQR
STUVWX
YZ  

Getty-Dubay Style Italic Print

ABCDEF
GHI JKL
MNOPQR
STUVWX
YZ  

Getty-Dubay Style Italic Cursive

ABCDEF
GHI JKL
MNOPQR
STUVWX
YZ  


Alphabet Handwriting Practice - Lowercase Letters

Zaner-Bloser Style
Print

a bc de f
g hi j k l
m n o pq r
s tu vw x
y z   

Zaner-Bloser Style Cursive

a bc de f
g hi j k l
m n o pq r
s tu vw x
y z   

D'Nealian Style
Print (cd link fixed)

a bc d e f
g hi j k l
m n o pq r
s tu vw x
y z   

D'Nealian Style
Cursive

a bc de f
g hi j k l
m n o pq r
s tu vw x
y z   

Getty-Dubay Style Italic Print

a bc de f
g hi j k l
m n o pq r
s tu vw x
y z   

Getty-Dubay Style Italic Cursive

a bc de f
g hi j k l
m n o pq r
s tu vw x
y z   

Homonyms - Seven sentences to help practice the spelling of various homonyms.
These homonyms correspond with lesson 6 from The Phonetic Zoo: A Self Teaching Program Level A.

Zaner-Bloser Style PrintD'Nealian Style PrintZaner-Bloser Style Cursive D'Nealian Style Cursive
Getty-Dubay Style Italic PrintGetty-Dubay Style Italic Cursive

 

Sing the Word - Great in Counsel and Mighty in Deed
Memory Verses - Copywork / Handwriting Practice
Click the link above to read more about this CD and to hear samples of music.

One of our copy work / handwriting practice pagesThese verses are also songs featured on the Sing the Word CD. We've found the music on the Sing the Word CD's to be a wonderful and VERY effective way for our children (and mom even!) to memorize scripture. Copywork is listed in the order the songs appear on the CD. Longer verses are broken into smaller parts. Although you don't need the CD to accompany these pages, we highly recommend it.

 

 

Psalm 8 - Track One, Part I
"Oh Lord, our Lord
How majestic is Your name in all the earth,
Who have displayed Your splendor above the heavens!"

Zaner-Bloser Style PrintD'Nealian Style PrintZaner-Bloser Style Cursive D'Nealian Style Cursive
Getty-Dubay Style Italic PrintGetty-Dubay Style Italic Cursive

Psalm 8 - Track One, Part 2
"From the mouth of infants and nursing babes
You have established strength
Because of your adversaries, To make the enemy and the revengeful cease."

Zaner-Bloser Style PrintD'Nealian Style PrintZaner-Bloser Style Cursive D'Nealian Style Cursive
Getty-Dubay Style Italic PrintGetty-Dubay Style Italic Cursive

Psalm 8 - Track One, Part 3 - (2 pages)
"When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have ordained;
What is man that You take thought of him?
Yet You have made him a little lower than God,
And you crown him with majesty!."

Zaner-Bloser Style PrintD'Nealian Style PrintZaner-Bloser Style Cursive D'Nealian Style Cursive
Getty-Dubay Style Italic PrintGetty-Dubay Style Italic Cursive

Psalm 8 - Track One, Part 4 - (2 pages)
"You made him to rule over the works of Your hands;
You have put all things under his feet,
All sheep and oxen,
And also the beasts of the field,
The birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea,
Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
O LORD, our Lord
How majestic is your name in all the earth!."

Zaner-Bloser Style PrintD'Nealian Style PrintZaner-Bloser Style CursiveD'Nealian Style Cursive
  

Romans 12: 14-16 (2 pages)
"Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.
Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.
Be of the same mind toward one another;
do not be haughty in mind, but associate with the lowly.
Do not be wise in your own estimation."

Zaner-Bloser Style PrintD'Nealian Style PrintZaner-Bloser Style Cursive D'Nealian Style Cursive
  

Micah 6:7-8 (2 pages)
"Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body, for the sin of my soul? He has told you, O man what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?"

Zaner-Bloser Style PrintD'Nealian Style PrintZaner-Bloser Style Cursive D'Nealian Style Cursive
  

Romans 8:28
"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose."

Zaner-Bloser Style PrintD'Nealian Style PrintZaner-Bloser Style Cursive D'Nealian Style Cursive
  

Philippians 4:6-7 (2 pages)
"Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made know to God.
And the peace of God, which passes all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."

Zaner-Bloser Style PrintD'Nealian Style PrintZaner-Bloser Style Cursive D'Nealian Style Cursive
  

John 1:1-4
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and that the life was the light of men."

Zaner-Bloser Style PrintD'Nealian Style PrintZaner-Bloser Style Cursive D'Nealian Style Cursive
Getty-Dubay Style Italic PrintGetty-Dubay Style Italic Cursive

Proverbs 27:17
"Iron sharpens iron, So one man sharpens another."

Zaner-Bloser Style PrintD'Nealian Style PrintZaner-Bloser Style Cursive D'Nealian Style Cursive
Getty-Dubay Style Italic PrintGetty-Dubay Style Italic Cursive

James 4:17
"Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin."

Zaner-Bloser Style PrintD'Nealian Style PrintZaner-Bloser Style Cursive D'Nealian Style Cursive
Getty-Dubay Style Italic PrintGetty-Dubay Style Italic Cursive

Proverbs 16: 7
"When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him."

Zaner-Bloser Style PrintD'Nealian Style PrintZaner-Bloser Style Cursive D'Nealian Style Cursive
Getty-Dubay Style Italic PrintGetty-Dubay Style Italic Cursive

Genesis 50:20
"And as for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive."

Zaner-Bloser Style PrintD'Nealian Style PrintZaner-Bloser Style Cursive D'Nealian Style Cursive
Getty-Dubay Style Italic PrintGetty-Dubay Style Italic Cursive

Proverbs 21:3
"To do righteousness and justice Is desired by the LORD more than sacrifice"

Zaner-Bloser Style PrintD'Nealian Style PrintZaner-Bloser Style Cursive D'Nealian Style Cursive
Getty-Dubay Style Italic PrintGetty-Dubay Style Italic Cursive

John 8:12
"Again therefore Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me shall not walk in the darkness but shall have the Light of life."

Zaner-Bloser Style PrintD'Nealian Style PrintZaner-Bloser Style Cursive D'Nealian Style Cursive
Getty-Dubay Style Italic PrintGetty-Dubay Style Italic Cursive

Romans 1:16
"For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek."

Zaner-Bloser Style PrintD'Nealian Style PrintZaner-Bloser Style Cursive D'Nealian Style Cursive
Getty-Dubay Style Italic PrintGetty-Dubay Style Italic Cursive

John 1:1-4 (2 pages)
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and that the life was the light of men."

Zaner-Bloser Style PrintD'Nealian Style PrintZaner-Bloser Style Cursive D'Nealian Style Cursive
Getty-Dubay Style Italic PrintGetty-Dubay Style Italic Cursive

Psalm 42, Part One
"As the deer pants for the water brooks, So my soul pants for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, the living God, When shall I come and appear before God?"

Zaner-Bloser Style PrintD'Nealian Style PrintZaner-Bloser Style Cursive D'Nealian Style Cursive
Getty-Dubay Style Italic PrintGetty-Dubay Style Italic Cursive

Psalm 42, Part Two
"My tears have been my food day and night, While they say to me all day long, Where is your God? These things I remember and I pour out my soul within me."

Zaner-Bloser Style PrintD'Nealian Style PrintZaner-Bloser Style Cursive D'Nealian Style Cursive
Getty-Dubay Style Italic PrintGetty-Dubay Style Italic Cursive

 

Coming soon (er...at least when I get around to it):

The rest of Psalm 42
& Lots more copy work!

 

 

 

 

 
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