If you search exactly that, "amazing handwriting worksheets", in Google, you're very first hit will be this fantastic and free site for making handwriting practice pages in three different writing styles with multiple options for what to put on a page. It is FULLY customizable. I can't say enough good things about it. If you need quick handwriting worksheets, this is your tool! (But don't be fooled by the giant DOWNLOAD buttons in the middle of the page. That's just for a PDF creator, which you don't need, unless you want to save your worksheets for future printing by printing them to a PDF generator instead of your printer. Or you can photocopy the one that you're going to print out.) Scroll down the page a bit to find the three choices for writing styles and begin!
When I practice handwriting with my littles (who are 4 and 7), I use this worksheet generator. I put 4 different letters on the page (one per line) and then 2 short words that use the current letters or letters we've already practiced on past sheets. The first letter on each line uses arrows to direct the writing. The second letter on each line is simply dotted, with no arrows. Then I ask for 5 beautiful copies of the letter on their own. I sit and correct as they're doing it to avoid bad habits. Then, immediately after finishing the line, we choose the best example from the five and put a tiny reward sticker above it. This provides incentive to both finish the work and to do it well. We always enjoy choosing the best one. When we disagree about which is the best, the child gets to choose. Notice that we're just looking for the best among the five that the child wrote, we're not looking for perfection.
And stickers from the local Dollar Tree are always useful!
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