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Good DNealian font sets or Zaner-Bloser font packages and material for education are here. For a
teacher, it is important to elaborate coherent strategies, using tools
flexible enough to adapt to the curriculum. School fonts have to
conform to teachers and home schoolers needs. All these fonts do not require any
additional software, and work with standard computers and software.
The
typefaces presented here follow a logic of gradual discovery for
reading and writing, starting with simple pictograms and games (dingbat
fonts), then going on to block letters, and cursive handwriting. The
block letter and cursive handwriting DNealian font sets are ideal to
create your own worksheets. The addition of our exclusive Block2Cursive
style makes transition between Block Letters and Cursive Handwriting
amazingly easy and logical. The
very distinguished Outline style for Zaner-Bloser work sheets is close
to impossible to create by hand. Yet, it is here, quite useful for big
examples as well as books.
With
these DNealian fonts, Zaner-Bloser fonts (Manuscript and Cursive Writing style) and dingbat fonts, available for
Windows Vista, Windows XP, Macintosh OS X, Linux and other Windows or OS2 systems, teachers and homeschoolers will be able
to easily prepare their own exercises and lessons, with the vocabulary
and presentation they choose.
We
welcome suggestions for more education
packages and educative font material.
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Most of these typefaces are available as free downloadable font for
evaluation.
DNMethod
exclusive 32 fonts collection for D'Nealian™ Block Letters to
D'Nealian™ Cursive Handwriting with exclusive transition style
Block2CursiveSee
through this small samples the extensive variety of styles available to
create your own D'Nealian™ work sheets. Click on the picture to see
the complete 32 fonts collection in bigger size. Please note the
exclusive Heavy style that can be used for Teacher notes and questions.
DNBlock2Cursive
is an exclusive font created to facilitate transition between block
Letters and Cursive Handwriting. What the students already know (Block
Letters) is solid, and what they have to learn to create Cursive
Handwriting (links and new letterforms) is dotted.
Learning Block
Letters Handwriting (K2) for DNealian worksheets
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ZMethod complete 30 fonts collection for Zaner-Bloser© Manuscript (Circle-and-Stick print) to Cursive WritingSee
through this small sample the extensive variety of styles available to
create your own Zaner-Bloser© work sheets. Click on the pictures to see
the complete 30 fonts collection in bigger size.
 
Our
exclusive ZWriting font for Zaner-Bloser© Cursive Writing worksheets
links automatically as you type and is very easy to use to create your
own exercises. Choose phrases and quotes yourself for the best
curiculum. New styles such as Heavy and Outline can help build a better
set of examples and is rarely found elsewhere. Here are a few of the
fonts included in the complete method.
Learning
Handwriting Letters (K2-Grade 2-6) for Zaner-Bloser ®
worksheets
Our
Letters typeface offers a family of eight font styles, suited to all
exercise sheets and workbooks: plain, dotted, with tracing arrows,
dotted with arrows, with or without guidelines.
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Skryptaag Cursive
typeface family
Click here to see more Willegha typeface family  English
cursive, or "English round", or "Anglaise" in France, has been taught
to generations of children as unique method since the 18th Century. It
was practiced with a copperplate pointy quill, and took several years
to master. Control of slant, and mastering of the quantity of ink
necessary to nicely get thin and heavy strokes in elegant curves was an
art into itself. Not enough ink, and the heavy strokes ran out of ink.
Too much ink, and it dripped all the sudden and splat on the paper.
After a while, though, each student developped valuable calligraphy
skills and could hold style for hours. This method was dropped
altogether with china ink wells full of purple ink, right after World
War 2. In America, Palmer Business Writing was at the same time a
reaction against English Round, and an adaptation. While abandonning
the quill, it remained slanted and a bit ornamented. Emphasis was also
put on using the whole body to produce curves, to alleviate
Carpel-Tunnel syndrome (painful wrist), familiar to handwriters. A
first step towards ergonomics, at the time Tailorism aimed to improve
productivity by better accomodating human gesture. All current methods
more or less inherit from English Cursive. The closest one, directly
based upon Palmer, is today Zaner-Bloser Cursive Writing.
Kindergarten -
Pre-reading
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