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Penpals for Handwriting Year 4 Practice Book

Penpals for Handwriting Year 4 Practice Book

Penpals for Handwriting Year 4 Practice Book

2nd Edition
Gill Budgell, Kate Ruttle
December 2015
Available
Print
9781316501467

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 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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