PRACTICAL PENMANSHIP

I sent these notes home as homework if students needed extra practice in handwriting.  Once we transitioned  from handwriting paper to white-lined paper-I taught the following rules listed below.

CIRCLES ARE ON THE LEFT! 
1.  Leave top margin blank - except for student number at top right corner.
2.  Numbers are in the left margin near the red line.
3.  Write as close to the red line on the left as possible.
4.  Try not to go past the red margin on the right.
5.  Capital and tall letters reach the top line.
6.  Midline letters fill 1/2 of the line space.