For grown-ups

Each capital letter climbs four steps: trace a wide path, trace the dots, write from a start dot, then write it alone. Capitals stand on the baseline and reach up to the top line; letters made of more than one line have numbered start dots, and the voice says which line comes next. Choose the handwriting your child's school uses. Italic capitals have a gentle forward slant, the way Getty-Dubay italic handwriting teaches them. Ball-and-stick capitals are upright print made of straight lines and circles, the way Zaner-Bloser manuscript teaches them, and the voice uses its words (pull down straight, slide across, circle back, slant down). The families group capitals by their strokes: L I T E F H (straight lines), P R B D (a stick and bumps), C O G Q S (circles and curves), U J, and A V W X Y Z N M K (slants). Each finished letter shows a picture of something that starts with it, with the word in capitals. Tap the eye to watch a letter being made. Practice the Steps (or tap a letter below the paper) works on one letter: a star for each of the four steps, then one more on its own for the fifth star. Pick a Step to Practice writes one letter five times side by side on a line, all at the same step, so your child can compare their work. A keyboard works too: type a letter to practice it. Progress here is kept apart from the small-letter game.

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