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Penpals for Handwriting Year 1 Practice Book

Penpals for Handwriting Year 1 Practice Book

Penpals for Handwriting Year 1 Practice Book

2nd Edition
Gill Budgell, Kate Ruttle
December 2015
Available
Print
9781316501337

Penpals for Handwriting is a complete handwriting scheme for 3–11 year olds.

£9.50
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Overview

The Practice Books provide specific handwriting focused practice – either introducing or practising letters, joins or key concepts such as size and proportion. They are designed to support independent practice in the classroom, following a whole-class teaching session. Each page corresponds to the units within the Teacher’s Books and includes opportunities for: Finger and pencil tracing, writing letters or joins; Writing phrases or sentences; Pattern practice; Self-assessment check. Having learnt individual letters previously, children are introduced to letters within words for the first time in Year 1.

Features

  • Ideal for use in smaller groups.
  • Augments the interactive resource.
  • Provides plenty of opportunity to perfect letter formation through repetition.

Contents

  • Term 1
  • 1 Practising long-legged giraffe letters
  • 2 Writing words with ll
  • 3 Introducing capitals for long-legged giraffe letters
  • 4 Practising one-armed robot letters
  • 5 Practising long-legged giraffe letters and one-armed robot letters
  • 6 Introducing capitals for one-armed robot letters
  • 7 Practising curly caterpillar letters
  • 8 Writing words with double ff
  • 9 Writing words with double ss
  • 10 Introducing capitals for curly caterpillar letters
  • Term 2
  • 11 Practising long-legged giraffe letters, one-armed robot letters and curly caterpillar letters
  • 12 Practising zig-zag monster letters
  • 13 Writing words with double zz
  • 14 Mixing all letter families
  • 15 Practising all capital letters
  • 16 Practising all numbers 0–9
  • 17 Writing words with ck and qu
  • 18 Practising long vowels: ee, oa, oo
  • 19 Practising long vowels: ee, oa, oo
  • 20 Assessment
  • Term 3
  • 21 Numbers 10–20: spacing
  • 22 Practising ch unjoined
  • 23 Introducing diagonal join to ascender: ch
  • 24 Practising ai unjoined
  • 25 Introducing diagonal join, no ascender: ai
  • 26 Practising wh unjoined
  • 27 Introducing horizontal join to ascender: wh
  • 28 Practising ow unjoined
  • 29 Introducing horizontal join, no ascender: ow
  • 30 Assessment

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