The Moon Copywork
A short Stevenson verse from A Child's Garden of Verses, ideal for beginners
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About this printable
Twelve gentle lines and simple rhyming couplets make this an easy first copywork poem for early elementary writers. The vocabulary stays concrete — cat, mouse, dog, moon — so students can focus on spacing and letter shapes rather than decoding. A tidy one-page assignment for a nighttime or space theme. 9 pages, 1/4-inch letters in manuscript print on dashed manuscript lines. Sheets included: Copywork (Step 1), First Letter Hints (Step 2), Memory Lines (Step 3), Source Text, First Letters Only. Robert Louis Stevenson, 1885. Public domain text.
ON THIS SHEET: The moon has a face like the clock in the hall; · She shines on thieves on the garden wall, · On streets and fields and harbour quays, · And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees. — The squalling cat and the squeaking mouse, · The howling dog by the door of the house, · The bat that lies in bed at noon, · All love to be out by the light of the moon. — But all of the things that belong to the day · Cuddle to sleep to be out of her way; · And flowers and children close their eyes · Till up in the morning the sun shall arise. — Robert Louis Stevenson, 1885. LETTER SIZE: 1/4-inch. HANDWRITING: manuscript print. SHEETS: Copywork (Step 1), First Letter Hints (Step 2), Memory Lines (Step 3), Source Text, First Letters Only.
- Category Poetry
- Price $0.50
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Inside the PDF
3 pages from the 9-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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