All Things Bright and Beautiful Copywork
The classic nature hymn with its repeating refrain, set for copywork
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About this printable
Short four-line stanzas and a familiar hymn cadence make this poem approachable for a wide range of ages. The catalog of flowers, birds, mountains, and meadows pairs naturally with a nature-study notebook or a seasonal copywork rotation. Plenty of capital letters and commas give students practical punctuation reps. 19 pages, 3/8-inch letters in Dreaming Outloud on dashed manuscript lines. Sheets included: Copywork (Step 1), First Letter Hints (Step 2), Memory Lines (Step 3), Source Text, First Letters Only. Cecil Frances Alexander, 1848. Public domain text.
ON THIS SHEET: All things bright and beautiful, · All creatures great and small, · All things wise and wonderful, · The Lord God made them all. — Each little flower that opens, · Each little bird that sings, · He made their glowing colours, · He made their tiny wings. — The rich man in his castle, · The poor man at his gate, · God made them, high or lowly, · And order'd their estate. — The purple-headed mountain, · The river running by, · The sunset, and the morning, · That brightens up the sky; — The cold wind in the winter, · The pleasant summer sun, · The ripe fruits in the garden, · He made them every one; — The tall trees in the greenwood, · The meadows where we play, · The rushes by the water, · We gather every day;— — He gave us eyes to see them, · And lips that we might tell, · How great is God Almighty, · Who has made all things well. — Cecil Frances Alexander, 1848. LETTER SIZE: 3/8-inch. HANDWRITING: Dreaming Outloud. SHEETS: Copywork (Step 1), First Letter Hints (Step 2), Memory Lines (Step 3), Source Text, First Letters Only.
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3 pages from the 19-page PDF, as they print.
A plan for this set
A longer text: give Steps 1, 2 and 3 about two weeks, one sheet a day.
- Days 1–4 Copywork (Step 1). Read the whole text, then copy it exactly.
- Days 5–8 First Letter Hints (Step 2). Write it again with only the first letter of each word as a prompt.
- Days 9–10 Memory Lines (Step 3). Write it from memory on lines sized to each word.
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