Australian & New Zealand Copywork -Downunder Copywork.
Use copywork in your homeschool to introduce quality literature and encourage excellent handwriting. You can make this an independent homeschool lesson for your children in their homeschool day. The pages are set out so that you can set an easy rule of "just one page " per homeschool day.
“The earliest practice in writing proper for children of seven or eight should be, not letter writing or dictation, but transcription [copy work], slow and beautiful work.”Charlotte Mason from Home Education
Searching for quality Australian and New Zealand copy work is time consuming, so we have done the hard work for you. We have chosen ‘living literature’ that is VERY EASY TO USE in the homeschool or classroom. If you buy the ebooks they are also reusable within the family. For school copyright licences contact us.
We carefully selected a broad range of good literature that we believe will be educational, encouraging, uplifting and bring delight to you and your students. Our extracts are chosen from material which dates from 1700’s-2007 and includes classic fiction, poetry, songs, biographies, studies of nature and explorers’ journals. You can see the literature list when you look at each individual book.
Here is a free font style comparison chart to help you decide.
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All of our fonts were created by John Greatorex at School Fonts. To purchase Australian and New Zealand fonts visit his website.
The Downunder Copywork series has been developed to provide a homeschool language-arts resource that has a unique ‘down under’ flavour.
Book One
This copy work book assumes a basic level of competence in letter construction for the student.
The copy work is chosen from excellent Australian and New Zealand literature. It begins with tracing the font and then progresses to a smaller font that can be copied on lines below the text. It has a place for your students to make their own illustrations and a few pictures to colour in.
Age range: 7-8.
This resource is available in the ball and stick font or foundation style
Book Two
The copy work is chosen from excellent Australian and New Zealand literature. It is specifically for those making the transition from printing to cursive. It begins with tracing the font and then progresses to a smaller font that can be copied on lines below the text.
Age range: 8-10 years old.
This resource is available in foundation font cursive style.
Book Three
The copy work is chosen from excellent Australian and New Zealand literature. In book three we have used a more advanced cursive style, based on the foundation font, with loop joins for some letters.
Age range: 9-12 years old.
This resource is available in advanced foundation style.