MEET the
Cursive CREW
Captain Crock, Wize Wizard, Lord of the Wings, India 'Napper' Bones, and Eat N Hunt the Fox!
Audiobook now available!
This is now a cursive writing experience where you learn to read and write cursive while listening to an audiobook where the characters come to life with soundeffects too!
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Preview the audiobook:
Fun characters
Meet the characters that provide clues and help tell about a fascinating journey throughout the book, and make learning fun!
Activities, a story and coloring
Engaging activities and exercises that make learning cursive fun!
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Each page includes coloring and a dynamic story that flows throughout the book, and a corresponding practice page that focuses on two letters of the alphabet, eg: AB, CD, EF etc.
How do you describe it? It’s all in one: education and entertainment. Best of all, while they are coloring, practicing, and reading, they are developing areas of their brains, enhancing motor skills, but, most importantly, having fun!
My hope is that anyone who does this workbook will fall in love with writing and experience its power for themselves.
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**Available as a bound softcover workbook or as a printable PDF allowing the freedom to break down the lessons into simple single sheets that can be copied/printed as many times as needed.
A panagram
Notable benefits include:
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Enhance your children’s ability to write quickly and clearly when they’re journaling. Journaling has become a popular method of writing for mental health, productivity, and creativity.
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Teach your children how to write in an efficient, aesthetically pleasing manner so that the words are beautiful and decipherable.
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Offers pangram exercises, which are useful for practicing every letter in the same sentence.
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The perfect indoor exercise for the homeschool community or a fun activity to take anywhere.
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This book is for anyone who would love to learn how to cursive write and maybe even for those adults that were forced to write with their right hand as children. What a cool way for that generation to reclaim the love of writing and can participate along with the children.
Without knowing cursive it may be like living in a foreign world...
What would the world look like without cursive?
As adults, we take cursive writing for granted because it is something familiar, something that has always been there but sadly times are changing. Since cursive stopped being taught in schools in 2010, it is becoming a thing of the past like the pay phone or the cassette tape. What would our world look like without cursive? Think of the vast amount of history and information that your child would miss out on because it is written in a manner they never learned. If this continues, we will lose access to everything written in cursive. It might even go as far as needing cursive writing interpreters just to read it.
A home schooler review
Kids will enjoy it on their own!
This book is designed to be fully Engaging by keeping their brains active, teaching them new skills, and helping their motor skills.
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Cursive is leaving the classrooms but it doesn't need to leave our lives and it definitely doesn't have to be painful to learn.
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This book can be a great way to keep kids thinking, learning, and creative over the holidays, on road trips, and giving them an advantage they will have forever.
a review from
Cathy Duffy:
Cathy Duffy is best known as a curriculum specialist. As the author of the two-volume Christian Home Educators’ Curriculum Manual (Elementary Grades and Junior/Senior High) she researched curriculum and methodology for all subjects and all grade levels. As the curriculum universe grew to be too immense for most homeschoolers to navigate, Cathy narrowed her recommendations down to the 100 Top Picks for Homeschool Curriculum (published by Broadman & Holman in February 2005).
Crack the Cursive Code teaches cursive writing in the context of a cartoon adventure story. The publisher’s website describes it as a “Cursive Writing story/coloring/workbook."
The course is very creative on many levels, but I think the story is the feature that makes this course much more interesting than many other options.
It features cartoon characters in the ongoing story. Fox, Chicken, and Dog decide to play dress-up as the characters Eat N. Hunt, Lord of the Wings, and Indie ‘Napper’ Bones, respectively. They open an old scroll that they are unable to decipher, and thus starts their amazing adventure as they suddenly find themselves on the deck of a pirate ship that later transforms into a submarine, then a hot air balloon.Along with the text and story illustrations, each page of the story highlights two letters in cursive, Introduced by the Lord or the Wing's magic wand—for example, a and b, with arrows indicating the direction and steps to follow in forming the letters. The cursive style taught in this course is fairly standard, although it simplifies things a bit by dropping joins after some of the uppercase letters such as B, F, and O.
The letters are taught in alphabetical order, and the 1,000-word story employs alliteration within each story section based on the letters being taught. For instance, as students learn about the letter g, one sentence of the story reads, “The underwater boat gracefully glided toward the sun that glistened on the ocean’s surface.” The letter h follows with sentences such as, “The dog hastily hung a hammock and had his head down in hardly any time at all!”
Facing each story page is a lined page for tracing the two letters emphasized in that piece of the story, in both uppercase and lowercase forms, in isolation and in word context. The instructions do not tell students to write the letters on their own, but additional practice pages in the second half of the book provide more tracing practice and space for students to write the letters on their own.
In addition, the book uses the sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” to provide practice for writing all lowercase letters. Students will both trace and copy this sentence a few times. A few extra lined pages at the back of the book can be used for whatever practice you wish. Utilizing those pages is important since otherwise, students don’t get enough practice writing without tracing the forms.
I expect that many children will love to color the black-and-white story illustrations, and there are additional coloring pages for the story characters.
Some parents are ambivalent about teaching cursive handwriting, but Crack the Cursive Code might be appealing enough to tip that decision in a positive direction.
Fans of the printable sheets:
I got a chance to try out a sample with my 5/6 class yesterday. I have always taught cursive writing once a week as a tool for learning. We use coloured gel pens and neat paper. When I gave them a sample of "Crack the Code:Ss... the reaction was awesome. They enjoyed the story. The practice part was not "too" long (no finger pains) and the graphics were a big sell. My boys asked if they could color or redraw the characters in their art books. Needless to say from the one page, I have 2-3 more lessons of the productive work made fun!!
Pam Lamb-Einarson
Misty Coleman, Etsy
These look great. Got to me in just mins. Although they are ahead of my kids age group, I was glad to be able to get them and have ready when we get there. Thank you for such wonderful resources
very pleased, as described, easy download, quality product
Jnean Askey, Etsy
We had so much fun and loved using this with our writing curriculum. Thanks for the fun story!
Misty Stadler, Etsy
