Cursive Dictation Practice: Quotation Dictation for Grade 6

What the sheet asks the hand to do

Cursive Dictation Practice: Quotation Dictation for Grade 6 prints five blocks onto one side, with seven guided lines. Three of copying and two of free writing. The order is a copied row written from a printed model and a blank block with nothing printed at all: nothing on this sheet is traced, so the student writes from a printed model from the first row.

The words on Cursive Dictation Practice: Quotation Dictation for Grade 6 are Search, others, for, their, virtues, thyself, thy, vices, Hunger, never, saw, bad, bread and He, and nine more: twenty-three distinct words, averaging 4.4 letters, the longest "virtues" at 7 against a grade 6 limit of 14. Word length is the number to check before printing: a handwriting sheet that makes a student decode a word first is testing two things and reporting one.

Each block carries its own instruction rather than one set of directions at the top — the first reads “Read the first sentence aloud, then copy it once: "Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices."”, the last “Cover the sayings and write all three from memory, in order.”. That is what lets the sheet be handed to a student who is working alone.

The text on the page

The text on Cursive Dictation Practice: Quotation Dictation for Grade 6 runs to 25 words over three rows, averaging 4.4 letters each, with "virtues" the longest of them. That is the number that decides whether a sheet is a warm-up or a session: at this stage a child's hand tires before their attention does, and a page of long words tires it faster than a page of many short ones.

Between them the rows on Cursive Dictation Practice: Quotation Dictation for Grade 6 use twenty of the twenty-six lowercase letters — a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, l, n, o, p, r, s, t, u, v, w and y. Six of them are tall letters (b, d, f, h, l, t), which is what makes the ruled height on this sheet matter, and four drop below the baseline (f, g, p, y), so the descender space is in use too.

Where this one sits

Cursive Dictation Practice: Quotation Dictation for Grade 6 is one of seventeen Sentence Practice sheets here and one of twelve written for grade 6. It is dictation prep work, and it suits grade 6.

The closest things to Cursive Dictation Practice: Quotation Dictation for Grade 6 are Cursive Sentence Copying: Pangram Fluency for Grade 6 (grade 6) and Cursive Sentence Tracing: Pangrams for Grade 3 (grade 3). Cursive is one of the few subjects where doing the next sheet the same day is usually wrong — the hand needs the gap more than the head does — so those are the ones for tomorrow rather than for the rest of this session.