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Description

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. Continues the joining progression from Year 1, revising and developing joins.

Contents

Capital and lower case alphabet; 1; How to join in a word: high frequency words; 2; Introducing the break letters: j,g,x,y,z,b,f,p,r,s; 3; Practising diagonal join to ascender in words: eel, eet; 4; Practising diagonal join, no ascender, in words: a_e; 5; Practising diagonal join, no ascender, to an anticlockwise letter in words: ice, ide; 6; Practising horizontal join, no ascender, in words: ow, ou; 7; Practising horizontal join, no ascender, in words: oy, oi; 8; Practising horizontal join, no ascender, to an anticlockwise letter in words: oa, ode; 9; Practising horizontal join to ascender in words: ole, obe; 10; Practising horizontal join to ascender in words: ook, ool; 11; Practising diagonal join to r: ir, ur, er; 12; Practising horizontal join to r: or, oor; 13; Introducing horizontal join from r to ascender: url, irl, irt; 14; Introducing horizontal join from r: ere; 15; Practising joining to and from r: air; 16; Introducing diagonal join to s: dis; 17; Introducing horizontal join to s: ws; 18; Introducing diagonal join from s to ascender: sh; 19; Introducing diagonal join from s, no ascender: si, su, se, sp, sm; 20; Introducing horizontal join from r to an anticlockwise letter: rs; 21; Practising diagonal join to an anticlockwise letter: ea, ear; 22; Introducing horizontal join to and from f to ascender: ft, fl; 23; Introducing horizontal join from f, no ascender: fu, fr; 24; Introducing qu (diagonal join, no ascender); 25; Introducing rr (horizontal join, no ascender); 26; Introducing ss (diagonal join, no ascender, to an anticlockwise letter); 27; Introducing ff (horizontal join to ascender); 28; Capital letter practice: height of ascenders and capitals; 29; Assessment; 30; Assessment; Joining letter sets

Additional Information

• Illustrations: 4 colour book