Penpals for Handwriting Year 3 Practice Book

by Gill Budgell , Kate Ruttle

• ISBN13: 9780521755108
• ISBN10: 0521755107
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-20
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Penpals for Handwriting, the UK's favourite handwriting scheme, is for 3-11 year olds, helping children to use a fast and fluent handwriting style. The Penpals for Handwriting Year 3/Primary 4 Practice Book provides valuable revision of more complex joins, reinforcing links with spelling and supporting the move towards fluency.

Table of Contents

Capital and lower case alphabet

1

Revising joins in a word: long vowel phonemes, ow, ea

2

Revising joins in a word: le

3

Revising joins in a word: ing

4

Revising joins in a word: high frequency words

5

Revising joins in a word: high frequency words

6

Revising joins in a word: un, de

7

Revising joins to and from s: dis

8

Revising joins to and from r: re, pre

9

Revising joins to and from f: ff

10

Revising joins: qu

11

Introducing joining b and p: diagonal join, no ascender, bi, bu, pi, pu

12

Practising joining b and p: diagonal join, no ascender, to an anticlockwise letter, ba, bo, pa, po

13

Practising joining b and p: diagonal join to ascender, bl, ph

14

relative sizes of letters: silent letters

15

Parallel ascenders: high frequency words

16

Parallel ascenders: adding y to words

17

Relative size and consistency: ly, less, ful

18

Relative size and consistency: capitals

19

Speed and fluency practice: er, est

20

Speed and fluency practice: opposites

21

Consistency in spacing: mis, anti, ex

22

Consistency in spacing: non, co

23

Consistency in spacing: apostrophes

24

Layout, speed and fluency practice: address

25

Layout, speed and fluency practice: dialogue

26

Layout, speed and fluency practice: poem

27

Layout, speed and fluency practice: letter

28

Handwritng style: calligrams

29

Assessment

30

Handwriting style: acrostics

Joining letter sets