The Year 1 Penpals for Handwriting Workbook introduces letters used within context, without joins. The workbooks provide opportunities for additional guided practice of the unit’s handwriting focus and link it to a relevant grammar, punctuation or spelling focus to provide meaningful contextualised practice. The disposable two-colour write-in Workbooks are sold in packs of 10.
Features
- Offers children the opportunity to consolidate letter formation and introduces the four families of join.
- Units provide appropriate coverage of Year 1 GPS content, for example punctuation marks, lower case and capitals, and using simple verbs.
- Links to common exception words to reinforce essential learning.
- Reinforces work on phonics.
- Supported by lively illustrations.
Table of Contents
- Term 1
- 1 Punctuation: full stop and exclamation mark
- 2 Grammar: sorting words I see, I do
- 3 Punctuation: matching lowercase and capitals
- 4 Grammar: prefix un– unpack, unplug, unfit, unlock
- 5 Spelling: common exception words my, the, put
- 6 Punctuation: matching lowercase and capitals
- 7 Spelling: adding s to make plural nouns
- 8 Spelling: of and off
- punctuation: question mark
- 9 Spelling: counting syllables
- 10 Punctuation: matching lowercase and capitals
- Term 2
- 11 Grammar: selecting pronouns
- Punctuation: full stop and question mark
- 12 Spelling: compound words
- 13 Grammar: add s or es to make plurals
- 14 Spell Spelling: common exception words was, with, were, very
- 15 Punctuation: capitals for names
- 16 Spelling: matching numerals and number words – zero to nine
- 17 Grammar: identifying nouns and writing plurals
- 18 Grammar: adding er and est to adjectives
- 19 Grammar: adding ing and ed to verbs
- 20 Spelling: writing the days of the week
- Term 3
- 21 Spelling: matching numerals to number words – ten to twenty
- 22 Punctuation: full stop and question mark
- 23 Grammar: adding ing to verbs
- 24 Spelling: making sets of rhyming words
- 25 Spelling: compound words
- 26 Grammar: wh words
- Punctuation: question marks
- 27 Grammar: ordering words in a sentence
- Punctuation: full stop, question mark and exclamation mark
- 28 Grammar: making plurals
- 29 pelling: identifying different pronunciations of ow
- 30 Grammar: close activity
- Punctuation: full stop, question mark and exclamation mark
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