D'Nealian Handwriting
D'Nealian Handwriting
Kringas
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#1D'Nealian Handwriting
Posted: 2/13/07 at 9:23am
Last night I was talking with my roommate and mentioned something about D'Nealian handwriting. She looked at me like I was crazy. As it turns out, not every school system had this while I was growing up.
D'Nealian - from what I can remember and what I found out when I did a search on it - was a style of writing meant to bridge the gap between printing letters and writing in cursive. Apparently the big thing with it is that you lift the pencil less often, which somehow prevents common childhood errors, like confusing "b" for "d."
Did anyone else go to a school that taught D'nealian?
D'nealian Manuscript
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#2re: D'Nealian Handwriting
Posted: 2/13/07 at 9:35amI went to parochial school. We were taught the Palmer Method.
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#2re: D'Nealian Handwriting
Posted: 2/13/07 at 9:40amI did. I remember thinking it was particularly annoying because I just wanted to write my way, without all the little curves. Heh.
#3re: D'Nealian Handwriting
Posted: 2/13/07 at 10:15amnever heard of it til now.....
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#4re: D'Nealian Handwriting
Posted: 2/13/07 at 10:29amOh, I remember D'Nealian. I was a strange little girl, and insisted on writing everything in cursive...so I jumped all the rules. I eventually got sent into the English class a level above mine, because they were so annoyed with me not doing what the other kids were.
#5re: D'Nealian Handwriting
Posted: 2/13/07 at 11:20am
I learned D'Nealian, but my neices (same elementary school that I went to) are not learning it.
Criticism from wiki:
D'Nealian has drawn criticism in many locations, as it effectively adds a "third step" to how children are supposed to write. Moreover, a common issue is that D'Nealian is taught extremely early, to first and second grade students, many of whom are still learning the rudiments of print-style writing. This has seriously hindered the penmanship of many students in districts that have changed styles amidships
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#6re: D'Nealian Handwriting
Posted: 2/13/07 at 11:33amAt my elementary school in DC, we learned D'Nealian cursive (not manuscript) in third grade. I always thought D'Nealian referred only to a type of cursive until reading your post. On a side note, my cursive handwriting has pretty much remained unchanged since learning it at the age of 8.
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#7re: D'Nealian Handwriting
Posted: 2/13/07 at 11:48amWE started the transition in 2nd grade, and learned full cursive in 3rd grade. I actually use to get really excited when we knew two letters next to each other that you could write and connect in cursive. Since then, I have graduated to my own form of print/cursive hybrid. Legible and fast.
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#8re: D'Nealian Handwriting
Posted: 2/13/07 at 11:49amSounds like a confusing waste of time.
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#9re: D'Nealian Handwriting
Posted: 2/13/07 at 11:55am
Um. I went to catholic school. We learned to print and then in the 2nd grade we learned cursive.
Since then, my handwriting has just kinda evolved into it's own mix of print and cursive lol
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#10re: D'Nealian Handwriting
Posted: 2/13/07 at 11:57am
"I went to parochial school. We were taught the Palmer Method."
Is that Harry Palmer?
#11re: D'Nealian Handwriting
Posted: 2/13/07 at 12:02pm
I learned a lot from Harry on the playground
http://www.zanerian.com/Palmer.html
Updated On: 2/13/07 at 12:02 PM
Kringas
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#12re: D'Nealian Handwriting
Posted: 2/13/07 at 12:14pmFancy! Does anyone called it "script" anymore? I remember hearing that in New Jersey as a kid, but I don't ever hear people say that anymore.
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#13re: D'Nealian Handwriting
Posted: 2/13/07 at 12:15pm
Hand...writing?
You mean they don't just go straight to teaching typing now?
#14re: D'Nealian Handwriting
Posted: 2/13/07 at 12:18pmIf by typing you mean using two index fingers, then yes Calvin.
#15re: D'Nealian Handwriting
Posted: 2/13/07 at 12:21pmI've never heard of it...and I've never been taught it.
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#16re: D'Nealian Handwriting
Posted: 2/13/07 at 12:26pmI learned it in Georgia. My sister started elementary school in New Jersey and my brother in Missouri and neither of them used it.
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#17re: D'Nealian Handwriting
Posted: 2/13/07 at 12:47pmEVERYONE in public schools in California growing up had to learn it.
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#18re: D'Nealian Handwriting
Posted: 2/13/07 at 1:02pm
The school where my mother used to teach used the D'nealian method. I think, that as along as it's a school wide program, and used from kindergarten on up, there's not a problem, because that simply becomes the way you write.
We used the Zaner-Bloser method. I remember getting into trouble because I didn't want to put the correct "slant" on the the letters. That, and I hated making my "W"s pointy, and not rounded on the bottom....I couldn't wait to get to middle school, where as long as it was legible, they didn't care about your handwriting.
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#19re: D'Nealian Handwriting
Posted: 2/13/07 at 1:03pmI just like to say D'Nealian. It sounds so glamorous. I wish it was my screen name.
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#20re: D'Nealian Handwriting
Posted: 2/13/07 at 6:16pmthere was an article in todays Desert Sun about how cursive writing is on the decline due to lack of time in class for the teachers to teach it.
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#21re: D'Nealian Handwriting
Posted: 2/13/07 at 6:51pmI forgot types of handwriting existed until this thread (besides print and cursive, of course). I had to go ask my parents if I'd been taught D'Nealian, because it sounded familiar...and yep! In third grade, I started learning D'Nealian cursive. I don't do D'Nealian print, though, my print is regular. Ugly and impossible to read, but regular.
#22re: D'Nealian Handwriting
Posted: 2/13/07 at 7:19pm
Elphaba,
Don't you know that all that's important is reading, writing and math? Oh...and maybe science if it's actually part of the state test. Oh, NCLB, I love you so!
(Sorry, it's been a rough day with being forced to go to an inservice on back care and diabetes rather than actually spend time with other music teacher, and threats of High school students losing their fine arts electives to take remedial math and reading courses. I'm more than a little bitchy tonight!)
#23re: D'Nealian Handwriting
Posted: 2/13/07 at 9:34pmWendy, you too? I have a HORRIBLE day with my kindergartners (who are learning D'Nealian, btw) and then went to a staff meeting where the principal proceeded to fuss about the violations that happened during learning checks and how we could get in so much trouble had it been real testing. Now we all (even kindergarten which doesn't test to that level) have to attend extra inservice training- which I don't get paid for- on testing proceedures, IEPs, and other NCLB stuff.
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#24re: D'Nealian Handwriting
Posted: 2/13/07 at 9:40pmAnd my latest thing to bitch about is that we are in the middle of a winter storm warning, there are about 4" of snow on the ground with more snow and ice predicted, and every other district in the area has already announced that they're closed. Not us! They'll call us at 5:30 tomorrow morning! Ugh!!!!!
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