Activity

Handwriting Reading Challenge

Rather than challenging the content of the words, see if your students can decipher different types of handwriting!

Just go through the powerpoint and challenge the students to read the handwritten sentences out loud. They get harder as it goes, ending in the last slide, which is sort of just a joke at that point, although my students were fascinated by it and wanted to look at it a lot. To make it harder, delete the cursive handwriting chart on one slide, or to make it easier, review the cursive writing chart at the start.

For extra fun, change it up with your own handwriting!

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  • Reading Challenge.pptx (4.61 MB)
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    Submitted by jackcket March 24, 2023 Estimated time: less than 10 minutes
    1. NamikiHayden March 24, 2023

      This ought to be fun! It would be cool if you could set up a google forms or something to collect samples of different handwriting from users on this site. Don't know how that would work, though.

    2. MarinaS March 24, 2023

      Good idea for an English club

    3. I Still Play Neopets March 28, 2023

      Hayden makes a great point! It would be cool to see more personal fonts that also use phrases from the textbooks/using familiar vocabulary. In any case, a really fun activity to try for sure!

    4. Tohokuteach July 3, 2023

      to make it even harder why not add doctors' handwriting for the last slide haha

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