More and more teachers are using Canva to create materials. With a Canva Pro or Canva for Education account, you can upload your own fonts. Unfortunately, when it comes to the School Cursive fonts, Canva has similar limitations as Microsoft Powerpoint. That's why I have created a video on Youtube demonstrating how to install and use these fonts in Canva.
A lot of teachers have found my School Cursive fonts at the beginning of this school year. Unfortunately, not everybody knows how to get these fonts to work , or even knows they need to something special to get them to work. That's why I have created a short video on Youtube demonstrating how to install and use these fonts on Microsoft Word and Microsoft Powerpoint.
I am firmly convinced that the entire lowercase cursive alphabet should be taught and mastered before you start teaching uppercase cursive. Here's why:
What distinguishes cursive writing from print?
I have an exciting update for those of you who are creating their own educational resources and selling them on TeachersPayTeachers or other platforms: I am now offering commercial licenses for my School Cursive font family.
Today I've launched two resources on TeachersPayTeachers to help students to transition from 3/8" fully lined paper to wide ruled paper. I've created these resources because of a problem I noticed in many handwriting curricula: the transition from 3/8" fully lined paper to wide ruled paper is too abrupt.
The official D'Nealian workbooks are published by Savvas and can be viewed on their website.
I've created a D'Nealian font and I'm selling various workbooks and editable worksheets made with this font, but there is one particular feature of the official D'Nealian workbooks that I have not replicated in my materials: the way in which the line is divided vertically.
If can sometimes be difficult to find a cursive font to match your handwriting curriculum. Many fonts claim to be D'Nealian but aren't. And many other fonts don't claim anything at all (for trademark reasons) but might actually be a pretty good match. In this article I look at the distinguishing characteristics of the cursive fonts of two major handwriting curricula: D'Nealian versus Zaner-Bloser.
The School Cursive font family has grown. This week I've released a set of 4 fonts with arrows!
The first Arrows-font - School Cursive Arrows - uses one arrow for most letters, but adds additional arrows for letters that involve a pencil lift (such as lowercase i, j, t and x, and many uppercase letters).
Soon after I launched my School Cursive font, I received feedback from buyers that the font doesn't work in Microsoft Powerpoint. That's a big drawback, because many teachers use Powerpoint to create lesson materials.
Unfortunately, this seems to be a limitation in Powerpoint, and all fonts that use advanced OpenType features suffer from this. So initially, I thought there was nothing I could do about it.