It is difficult to overstate the importance of written communication. This book, providing instruction on construction of capital letters, is a beginning for this purpose. It begins with providing experience in the pen/pencil strokes to make capital letters. This is followed by providing the basic alphabet in traditional form, one letter per page, and giving the student the opportunity to practice making the letter. While the letters on the first line are a darker gray, with each line the gray becomes lighter, eventually becoming a dashed letter. This is followed by two rows of colored...

PRINTING PRACTICE - Phrases of Wisdom provides the student with the opportunity to develop a good and legible printing style through practice. There are fifty phrases of wisdom related to life in this book, and there is space to practice printing each phrase. The teacher may choose to assign a particular phrase to a student, or even the entire class, based on need. The phrases are all listed in the Table of Contents. On the practice page, the phrase is presented twice, once in classic print style, and again as a beginning student might print it. In this way, the student is able to view the...