Lantern&Ladder

Book 3 of 3 in Ready, Set, Write!

Write! Words & Silly Sentences

Ages 5 to 6. 66 pages, 8.5 x 11 in.

Letters become words, and words become silly sentences. Your child traces first words, copies funny sentences and then writes their very own. Every sentence uses only words already taught, so nothing on the page is out of reach.

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Front cover of Write! Words & Silly Sentences

Write! Words & Silly Sentences is a 66-page handwriting workbook for children aged 5 to 6 who can form every letter, by Milo Wick. Paperback on Amazon, PDF on Etsy.

A child who can form every letter still cannot write, because writing is spacing, and holding a sentence in your head while your hand catches up. This book is about that gap.

The sentences are silly on purpose. A goat in a hat is worth copying out; “the cat sat on the mat” is not. Every word in every sentence has already appeared earlier in the book, so a child never meets a word they cannot read while they are busy writing it.

What is inside

  • 48 first words to trace and copy
  • 24 silly sentences with a picture to color
  • 8 write-your-own pages with a word bank
  • Free practice paper and a certificate

The pictures are made with an image generation tool, then checked one by one by us. How a book gets made.

Pages from the book

A word page with a picture and the word written on a handwriting rule, first as a model and then as dotted copies.
The row fades from a solid model to dotted copies to an empty space.
A silly sentence to copy on handwriting rules, with a picture beside it to color in.
Every model carries a start dot and numbered arrows along each stroke.
A write-your-own page with a word bank at the top and empty handwriting rules below.
Nothing on the page is out of reach: it only uses what came before it.

Get the book

  • Printed and sent by Amazon, from the store for your country.
  • Reprinted or refunded if it arrives damaged or with a mistake that is ours.
  • Lantern & Ladder, a press in Utrecht, KVK 42183707. Write to us and a person answers.
  • Pictures made with an image generation tool, checked one by one by us.
Front cover of Write! Words & Silly Sentences, one edition, both characters

One edition, both characters

66 pages, 8.5 x 11 in. Printed and sent by Amazon.

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Also as a PDF

The whole book as a file to print at home, sold as a download from our Etsy shop.

Questions before you buy

Which age is it for?

Write! Words & Silly Sentences is for ages 5 to 6. The bands on the three covers overlap on purpose: what matters is what the hand can already do, not the birthday. The series page says which book to start with.

Print or cursive?

Print, not cursive and not pre-cursive: no entry or exit strokes. Every model carries a start dot and numbered arrows in the Zaner-Bloser stroke order, the one most schools in the United States teach, and the order is the same in all three books.

Can the pages be done again?

The paperback is pencil on paper, once, which is how a workbook is meant to be used: 66 pages is a term of practice. The printable PDF is the same book as a file, and prints again as often as you like.

Are the pictures made with AI?

The pictures start in an image generation tool and are then checked one by one by us. The letters, the arrows and the tracing lines are set from a typeface designed for beginning readers, not generated.

Paperback or PDF?

The paperback is printed and sent by Amazon from the store for your country, 8.5 x 11 in, 66 pages. The PDF is the whole book from our Etsy shop, to print at home on A4 or US Letter paper.

Which book to start with

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