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I have just received my copy of Startwrite in the mail from the US and have been busy doing up tomorrow's copywork for the children. It is brilliant!! This is definately going to make copywork and handwriting skills much, much easier. I just love the ability to type in any quote, paragraph etc that I feel is noble and uplifting for the children to copy. I also love the fact I can choose what size I want the child to write at, as well as the cursive or manuscript style.
I can also set the writing at light print, if I want the child to copy over it, or darker, with a replica, blank line underneath to do straight copywork - this is so flexible! There are other features too, but I LOATH reading manuals and I will learn them as time goes by...
I found out about this when I was doing a internet search on Charlotte Mason methods and one lady (cannot remember her name) said she used Startwrite as the backbone of her copywork with the children, doing up a term's worth of work at the time.
One very happy girl here, tonight! 
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I'm so glad you like it! We are going to order it soon for next year.  It sounds wonderful!
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This is my first year with it, too (got the idea from a post Elizabeth made awhile ago), and I love it! I will say its more time consuming than buying penmanship books. I took copywork for my 5th grader from scripture, from her readers for the year and from ILL. I took copywork from Catholic Mosaic for my 2nd grader. They turned out fabulous, but it took most of a day or two to get it all typed out and printed. I also like that the cost of the cd was basically the cost of 3 penmanship books, which I would have purchased anyway. Its not only better, but also a better investment. Woohoo!
Two thumbs up for Startwrite!
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I received mine too. I am still figuring it out. Do you plan to type out the copywork and have them copy out in their notebooks - or leave lines underneath? I want to use for quotes etc for Liturgical Year Notebooks and Blessed Mother Notebook - but am trying to figure out how.
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At this stage, leave the lines underneath but I am open to any good ideas and thoughts - I suppose I haven't thought too much, just how creative I can get with this.
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MarilynW wrote:
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I have been leaving blank lines underneath. My smaller ones can trace. And, the olders can trace and write directly underneath. I think it helps to write directly below what you're copying.
I purchased Startwrite about 7 months ago and LOVE it too! It's very versatile and works so well. About every 2 months, I've been doing Sunday's Psalm refrain ahead of time. It's great to have it all done.
And, one of my girls is really picky about having the tracing lines darker. So, voila! Lines can be darker.
Yea! Startwrite! 
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Thank you for mentioning this resource. I had never heard of it. For years I've wished for a way to type in copy work and have the printer spit it back out in cursive. Thank you so much!!
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