Patent ID: 7581955

Claim:
An educational method for guiding a learner in progressing from learning letter formation to legibly printing words and sentences, said method comprising providing a transitional writing medium marked with a plurality of generally uniformly spaced apart horizontal parallel lines that comprise consecutive baselines comprising a first baseline and a second baseline, and that comprise an adjacent upper line by which said first baseline is bounded, wherein said second baseline is bounded by said first baseline; and located between said first baseline and said adjacent upper line, a first set of vertically oriented, generally uniformly spaced apart parallel line segments that partially extend toward said upper line, and located between said second baseline and said first baseline, a second set of vertically oriented, generally uniformly spaced apart parallel line segments that partially extend toward said first baseline; wherein the spaced apart partially extending line segments define spaces of less height than width; and a left margin line and a right margin line that perpendicularly intersect said horizontal parallel lines, wherein said spaces are located between said left margin line and said right margin line; visually cueing left to right printing between said left margin line and said right margin line on said first baseline and said second baseline; visually cueing the learner to use the vertically oriented partially extending line segments of said spaces as a guide for the x-height of printed letters; and visually cueing the learner to use the width of said spaces as a guide for letter size and spacing between letters and between words.