Penpals for Handwriting is a complete handwriting scheme for 3-11 year-olds, covering attainment targets for the National Literacy Strategy. Teaching letter shapes and joins through stimulating and motivating activities, this scheme leads the way to fast, fluent and legible handwriting. Whole-class teaching via Big Books and OHTs provides an effective focus, from which pupils can gain the confidence for their own practice through finger tracing, pencil tracing and independent writing via Practice Books. From the beginning, the application of Fine and Gross Motor skills plays an integral part in the development of a fluent hand. The teaching methods outlined in Penpals are linked to spelling and can help to improve overall attainment in writing. Year 4 reinforces joins within a word, introduces sloped writing and investigates size, proportion and space, emphasising the need for speed and fluency.
Penpals for Handwriting is a complete handwriting scheme for 3-11 year-olds, covering attainment targets for the National Literacy Strategy. Teaching letter shapes and joins through stimulating and motivating activities, this scheme leads the way to fast, fluent and legible handwriting. Whole-class teaching via Big Books and OHTs provides an effective focus, from which pupils can gain the confidence for their own practice through finger tracing, pencil tracing and independent writing via Practice Books. From the beginning, the application of Fine and Gross Motor skills plays an integral part in the development of a fluent hand. The teaching methods outlined in Penpals are linked to spelling and can help to improve overall attainment in writing. Year 4 reinforces joins within a word, introduces sloped writing and investigates size, proportion and space, emphasising the need for speed and fluency.
Capital and lower case alphabet; 1; Revising joins in a word: ness, ship; 2; Revising joins in a word: ing, ed; 3; Revising joins in a word: s; 4; Revising joins in a word: ify; 5; Revising joins in a word: nn, mm, ss; 6; Revising parallel ascenders: tt, ll, bb; 7; Revising parallel ascenders and descenders: pp, ff; 8; Revising joins to an anticlockwise letter: cc, dd; 9; Revising break letters: dictionary work and alphabetical order; 10; Linking spelling and handwriting: related words; 11; Introducing sloped writing; 12; Parallel ascenders: al, ad, af; 13; Parallel descenders and break letters: ight, ough; 14; Size, proportion and spacing: ious; 15; Size, proportion and spacing: able, ful; 16; Size, proportion and spacing: fs, ves; 17; Speed and fluency: abbreviations for notes; 18; Speed and fluency: notemaking; 19; Speed and fluency: drafting; 20; Speed and fluency: lists; 21; Size, proportion and spacing: v, k; 22; Size, proportion and spacing: ic, ist; 23; Size, proportion and spacing: sion, tion; 24; Size, proportion and spacing: its, it's; 25; Speed and fluency: ible, able; 26; Speed and fluency: diminutives; 27; Print alphabet: captions, headings, labels; 28; Print capitals: posters; 29; Assessment; 30; Presentational skills: font styles; Joining letter sets
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