Rod and Staff Penmanship

Penmanship for Christian Writing

This is a stand-alone handwriting course designed for grades 1 - 4. (In grade 1 the workbooks are also included in the phonics and reading course.) This course teaches the strokes needed to form each letter as it is introduced in the phonics course. Grade 2 reviews straight "manuscript" lettering and introduces cursive. Upper-grade students who need penmanship practice may choose to review the grade 4 course.

The letter forms are quite similar to those used by Pentime penmanship (grades 1 - 8), so students should be able to switch between curriculums without much difficulty.

View Scope and Sequence Chart. To see the table of contents and sample lessons, click on the curriculum sets below.