We’re happy to provide these copywork selections for beginning writers. We’ve found that it’s hard enough for beginning writers to concentrate on how each letter is shaped, without having to use one hand to keep a book open to the correct page, keep a finger on the correct sentence on that page, and remember that type-written lower-case a’s are different from manuscript hand-written a’s. So each poem, Bible passage, or hymn below is in a manuscript “handwritten” font on one-inch lined paper with a blank line directly below each typed line for ease of copying.
We’ve also included a lined page without any writing on it for you to use as you see fit.
Feel free to download, print, duplicate, and pass these documents on to your friends. We purposely chose works in the public domain so you would have that freedom. And check back regularly; we plan to add more.
You can view and print these files using the free Adobe Reader software.
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Hymns
Poetry
- Author Unknown
- Sara Coleridge
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Christina Rossetti
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- William Wordsworth
Scripture
Exodus 20:2-17 (The Ten Commandments)
Psalm 23
Psalm 100
Matthew 6:9-13 (The Lord’s Prayer)