Penpals for Handwriting Year 5 Workbook (Pack of 10)

Penpals for Handwriting Year 5 Workbook (Pack of 10)

Penpals for Handwriting Year 5 Workbook (Pack of 10)

2nd Edition
Gill Budgell, Kate Ruttle
January 2016
Print
9781845658618

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

£18.25
GBP
Print

Overview

The Year 5 Penpals for Handwriting Workbook gives children the opportunity to work on the speed and fluency of their writing. Children are also introduced to a sloped style of writing. The workbooks provide opportunities for additional guided practice of the unit’s handwriting focus and link it to a relevant grammar, punctuation or spelling focus to provide meaningful contextualised practice. The disposable two-colour write-in Workbooks are sold in packs of 10.

Features

  • Offers children the opportunity to consolidate letter formation.
  • Links to common exception words to reinforce essential learning.
  • Reinforces work on phonics.
  • Supported by lively illustrations.

Contents

  • Term 1
  • 1 Presentation – sloped writing: sloped alphabet
  • 2 Spelling – sloped writing: diagonal join to ascender
  • 3 Spelling – sloped writing: diagonal join, no ascender
  • 4 Spelling – sloped writing: diagonal join to an anticlockwise letter
  • 5 Grammar – sloped writing: horizontal join to ascender
  • 6 Spelling – sloped writing: horizontal join, no ascender
  • 7 Spelling – sloped writing: horizontal join to an anticlockwise letter
  • 8 Spelling – sloped writing: joining from r
  • 9 Grammar and punctuation – sloped writing: joining from s
  • 10 Assessment
  • Term 2
  • 11 Punctuation – proportion: joining from f to ascender
  • 12 Spelling – size: joining from f, no ascender
  • 13 Punctuation: different styles for different purposes
  • 14 Grammar: size, proportion and spacing ff
  • 15 Spelling: size, proportion and spacing rr
  • 16 Spelling: size, proportion and spacing ss
  • 17 Grammar: size, proportion and spacing qu
  • 18 Decorative alphabets: different styles for different purposes
  • 19 Grammar: different styles for different purposes
  • 20 Assessment
  • Term 3
  • 21 Punctuation of parenthesis – proportion: joining p and b to ascenders
  • 22 Grammar – adverbs for possibility: joining from p and b
  • 23 Spelling strategies – syllabification: parallel ascenders and descenders pp, bb
  • 24 Spelling: all double letters
  • 25 Spelling – speed practice: suffixes –tial, –cial
  • 26 Spelling – fluency practice: i before e
  • 27 Spelling – speed and fluency: silent letters
  • 28 Presentation – print letters: labelling
  • 29 Assessment: spelling
  • 30 Spelling: print capitals

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