Font in Hand made flash card???

Early Learning Teaching Your Child to Read
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Hi,

When we write then we use different fonts like in writinging ‘r’ , ‘l’ , ‘p’ etc. is different than what is generally printed in the books.
I hope you are getting my point.

Here my query is that when i make flash cards in hand writing then what font should i use , my own handwriting or the fonts which are there in the books.

Thanks

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Use your own handwriting. That’s what I do. I can’t write in font. lol
It doesn’t seem to matter if she reads the word on the screen, or on a already made flashcard, or one I have made. They will recognize the word either way.

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At one point my dd had trouble reading in any font except the main one my computer automatically printed in. We started changing the font on the computer & having different members of the family print flashcards in their own ( as neat as possible) handwriting. She can now read words written pretty well any way.

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Yes…I used my own handwritting to make these flashcards…
and I wrote in small seperate letters…not cursive writting…
my baby’d recognise these easily and did not have much difficulty in recognising similar fonts elsewhere…

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I found the only letter I really had to think about was letter “a”. I wrote them out both ways for different words.

Actually, that’s one of the reasons I decided to create Little Reader - so I could show the same word with many different fonts. BTW, we’ll be adding cursif fonts to LR later too which will appear in some review lessons.

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Actually i use ‘r’ as cursive ‘r’ .
Just for my baby flash card i am writing ‘r’ as non cursive.

May be it is difficult to explain you right now my ‘r’ condition.
But i hope u understand.

Thanks

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When we hand-write we print them with either all serif letters or all without serifs, and none are cursive.

But we mostly just print them off the computer in “Print Clearly” a free font. Available at http://desktoppub.about.com/od/lessonplans/ig/Free-Print---Cursive-Fonts/Print-Clearly.htm