HORIZONTAL STROKES
 

Kay Gay Em En Ing

A vowel before a horizontal stroke is written above it.
A vowel after a horizontal stroke is written below it.

These examples are all on the line, in second position:
 

oak OK ache Kay egg Gaye/gay

game make mug Meg

mum monk name neck

Notice in outlines like "monk" and "neck" it is the first stroke that rests on the line, with the Kay just following on.

The first up or downstroke is the one written in position, resting on the line:
 

peck poke peg bake

became take tug duck

decade check/cheque chuck joke

Jake tame dumb dome

chum fake folk tongue

fame shame bench munch

tenth change chunk shake escape

When a downstroke comes after the horizontal(s), it is still the one that is written in position, not the horizontal:

cup coach ketchup gauge

code unpaid Gabe gate get

month Monday mauve enough

Tapering the thickness of the curved stroke is not necessary where it joins smoothly with a thick straight stroke:
 

vague vogue dunk bung bunk

Short Forms
 

come give-n him thing

SUMMARY

• A vowel before is written above a horizontal stroke

• A vowel after is written below a horizontal stroke

• For second position, the first up or downstroke rests on the line. If there are only horizontals, then the first one rests on the line

• A thick curved stroke is tapered at each end, except where it joins a thick straight stroke

EXTRA VOCABULARY

Extra vocabulary given in each lesson can be used to vary the exercise sentences:

coke comb gum muck

nay/neigh maim memo puck

pug beck buck beg

bug tech tuck tum

tome dame dug deck

choke jug shuck thumb

foam punch bunch tench

gut goat naked encode

cape cope cub gape

cage engage cache gush

mesh mush muff mope

nape nave/knave nub nudge

gunge mange

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