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Apply everything you have learned to plan and write a short creative story in cursive.
Imagine your pen is a tiny ice skater, gliding across a frozen lake of paper to leave behind a beautiful, swirling trail. What if your handwriting could tell a story not just through words, but through art?
Let's look at a simple plan for a story: 1. Characters: Sammy the Squirrel. 2. Setting: The Tall Oak Tree. 3. Problem: Sammy lost his favorite golden acorn. 4. Solution: He asks a friendly owl for help and finds it in a bird's nest.
Quick Check
What are the four main parts of a story map?
Answer
Characters, Setting, Problem, and Solution.
To make your story sparkle, you need to use different types of words. We call these Parts of Speech. For this story, we want to use at least five: 1. Nouns: Names of people, places, or things (e.g., forest, dragon). 2. Verbs: Action words (e.g., ran, flew). 3. Adjectives: Words that describe nouns (e.g., shiny, scary). 4. Adverbs: Words that describe how an action is done (e.g., quickly, softly). 5. Pronouns: Words that take the place of names (e.g., he, she, it).
Using these is like adding spices to a meal. A simple sentence like 'The cat ran' becomes much better as: 'The tiny cat ran quickly.'
Watch how we add parts of speech to improve a sentence: 1. Start with a Noun and Verb: 'The dragon flew.' 2. Add an Adjective: 'The green dragon flew.' 3. Add an Adverb: 'The green dragon flew gracefully.' 4. Add a Pronoun for the next sentence: 'It landed on the mountain.'
Quick Check
Which part of speech tells us 'how' an action happened, like 'slowly' or 'happily'?
Answer
An adverb.
Now it is time to write! In cursive, we don't lift our pens between every letter. Instead, we use connectors to join them together. This makes our writing faster and smoother. Remember to keep a consistent slant (leaning your letters slightly to the right) and leave enough spacing between your words so they don't bump into each other. If you make a mistake, don't worry! Just draw a single line through it and keep your 'skater' gliding. Your goal is a steady flow from the capital letter at the start to the period at the end.
Which of these is a 'Setting' in a story?
In the sentence 'The blue bird sang loudly,' which word is the adverb?
In cursive writing, you should lift your pen after every single letter.
Review Tomorrow
Tomorrow morning, try to name the 5 parts of speech we used today without looking at your notes!
Practice Activity
Write three sentences about what you ate for breakfast today using your best cursive handwriting.