Modern Handwriting Book 2 is designed to facilitate the following aspects of the teaching of handwriting:
- final formal revision of unjoined small and CAPITAL letters
- tracing and copying of sentences
- with / without starting points for words
- one line / two line sentences
- introduction of exit strokes, leading to joining of letters and to systematic introduction of almost all joins and exit strokes
- converting printed words into handwritten formats, using regular and irregular joins
- introduction of new letter forms required for difficult joins e.g. v, w, o to e and practice of these new joins and of new forms for t, d, p and q
- tracing / copying of sentences with decreasing guide from starting points, using all joins already practised.