Pangrams
The most well-known pangram, or sentence that contains all letters of the alphabet, is “The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.” Here are others (from shortest to longest):
- Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes.
- A mad boxer shot a quick, gloved jab to the jaw of his dizzy opponent.
- Ebenezer unexpectedly bagged two tranquil aardvarks with his jiffy vacuum cleaner.
- Jelly-like above the high wire, six quaking pachyderms kept the climax of the extravaganza in a dazzling state of flux.
Using pangrams in daily copywork is a wonderful way to get practice in all letters of the alphabet! The more complex sentences can be a quick introduction to new vocabulary words for both young children and upper grades as well. Here are a couple of links to printing free copywork pages.
Worksheet Works allows you to customize copywork. You can use block print or cursive for tracing or copying.
Notebooking Pages.com offers free blank lined copywork pages in a variety of styles (scroll to the middle of the page).
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