Penpals for Handwriting Year 3 Practice Book

Penpals for Handwriting Year 3 Practice Book

Penpals for Handwriting Year 3 Practice Book

2nd Edition
Gill Budgell, Kate Ruttle
December 2015
Print
9781316501412

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. In Year 3 we move on from basic joins to mastering more complicated joins.

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 joining through the word in stages: no ascenders or descenders
  • 2 Practising joining through the word in stages: parallel ascenders
  • 3 Introducing joining from s to ascender
  • 4 Introducing joining from s, no ascender
  • 5 Introducing joining from s to an anticlockwise letter
  • 6 Introducing joining from r to an ascender
  • 7 Introducing joining from r, no ascender
  • 8 Introducing joining from r to an anticlockwise letter
  • 9 Introducing joining from r to e
  • 10 Assessment: break letters
  • Term 2
  • 11 Introducing joining to f
  • 12 Introducing joining from f to ascender
  • 13 Introducing joining from f, no ascender
  • 14 Introducing joining from f to an anticlockwise letter
  • 15 Introducing ff
  • 16 Introducing rr
  • 17 Introducing ss
  • 18 Introducing qu
  • 19 Revising parallel ascenders and descenders
  • 20 Assessment
  • Term 3
  • 21 Revising joins: letter spacing
  • 22 Revising joins: spacing between words
  • 23 Revising joins: consistency of size
  • 24 Revising joins: fluency
  • 25 Revising joins: parallel ascenders
  • 26 Revising joins: parallel ascenders and descenders
  • 27 Revising joins: anticlockwise letters
  • 28 Revising break letters
  • 29 Assessment: speed trial
  • 30 Revisiting capital letters

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