Penpals for Handwriting Year 3 Practice Book
Penpals for Handwriting Year 3 Practice Book
Penpals for Handwriting is a complete handwriting scheme for 3–11 year olds.
$16.50
USD
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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