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School Fonts for Beginning Writing by Kim Voss, is a set of 13 fonts designed to help you make educational materials for your students for teaching spelling, reading and handwriting.

They make it fast and easy to create personalised motor activities that engage students by using their own names, friends, family members or interests. Now featuring the Palmer Style.

Use the fonts with any standard word processing software. They are mapped to standard keyboard keys, so you can simply select the font, type as normal and print your customised activity. No more laborious hours creating tracing guides by hand!

Features and Benefits

• Create motor activities using plastic manipulatives
  The Hands On font is designed to exactly match the Lakeshore Plastic Letters set, making it easy to create printed activities that use plastic letters as manipulatives. Using this font for motor activities helps learners focus on the sameness between the printed and plastic letters instead of getting “stuck” on differences.
  
• Quickly print guides for tracing
  The dashed fonts are designed to be used as a guide for tracing. Several different styles allow you to use lines or stroke indicators according to students’ needs. The styles are designed to work smoothly together so you can mix and match within a word. For example:
  
  • Print a word without stroke hints except for a specific letter that has presented consistent problems
    
  • Mix in solid-line fonts for letters that have already been mastered
    
  • Use the dashed font only for specific words that are the focus of an activity, such as the nouns in a story or the rhyming words in a poem
  
  
• Break letters into simple parts
  Dashed stroke objects allow students to practise the elements of a letter and then bring them together. Breaking the task into parts can help avoid frustration with difficult letters, or serve as a diagnostic tool to determine which component poses a hurdle.
  
• Multiple formats
  All 13 fonts are provided in both PostScript and TrueType formats to be compatible with Macintosh and Windows.

Activity Ideas

• Hands On Font
  
  • Print a word with blanks. Students fill in the missing spaces with plastic letters.
    
  • Use Boardmaker to print spelling words next to the corresponding Picture Communication Symbol and have students match the plastic manipulatives to the text. Provide only the letters that are in the word at first, then gradually add more to increase difficulty.
  
  
• Dashed Print Fonts
  
  • Write stories incorporating ideas from a student, then they can have the pleasure of “writing” the story they helped create by tracing over the words. Be sure to leave room for pictures! Over time, prompts can be faded to work toward the goal of reading, spelling and writing independently.
    
  • Print labels of a student’s name to affix to the top of school papers.
    
  • Create traceable spelling sheets, handwriting activities and simple math problems.
    
  • Make a sheet with the home address and telephone number of the student for practising this important and functional activity.

Fonts include:

• Dashed lines
• Solid lines
• Solid block letters
• Lined-paper rules
• Cues for practising the writing of letters
• And much more

See a sample of the fonts in School Fonts for Beginning Writing

See Transitional Fonts for Emerging Writers for older students.

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Prices

	Code	Media	Platform	$AUD Price	$AUD GST
	School Fonts for Beginning Writing - Single User Licence
	MJM184	CD-ROM	Mac, Win	$89.00	$8.90
	Transitional Fonts for Emerging Writers and School Fonts for Beginning Writing Bundle
	MJM194	CD-ROM	Mac, Win	$129.00	$12.90