Penpals for Handwriting Year 4 Practice Book
Penpals for Handwriting Year 4 Practice Book
Penpals for Handwriting is a complete handwriting scheme for 3–11 year olds.
£9.50
GBP
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. In Year 4, we move on from letter formation and joins to look at more technical aspects such as letter height and formation.
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 Introducing diagonal join from p and b to ascender
- 2 Introducing diagonal join from p and b, no ascender
- 3 Introducing diagonal join from p and b to an anticlockwise letter
- 4 Revising parallel ascenders and descenders: bb and pp
- 5 Break letters x and z
- 6 Spacing in common exception words
- 7 Relative size of letters
- 8 Relative size of capitals
- 9 Speed and fluency
- 10 Assessment
- Term 2
- 11 Revising parallel ascenders
- 12 Revising parallel ascenders and break letters
- 13 Revising parallel ascenders and descenders
- 14 Relative size of letters
- 15 Proportion of letters
- 16 Spacing between letters and words
- 17 Writing at speed
- 18 Improving fluency
- 19 Speed and fluency
- 20 Assessment
- Term 3
- 21 Consistency of size
- 22 Proportion
- 23 Spacing between letters and words
- 24 Size, proportion and spacing
- 25 Speed
- 26 Fluency
- 27 Speed and fluency
- 28 Print alphabet
- 29 Assessment
- 30 Capital letters
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