Penpals for Handwriting Year 3 Interactive Download

Penapls for Handwriting Year 3: Interactive uses activities which support direct teaching of the unit focus to the whole class using an interactive whiteboard. Each screen is divided into Penpals gym (gross and fine motor skill warm up videos) Teach (animated pattern and letter formation for perfect modelling) and Practice (sky writing and tracing patterns to help children with pencil flow)Each year includes: Gross and fine motor skill warm up clips to get children physically prepared for writing Pattern, letter formation and joins animated for perfect modelling. You can also pause animation if required. Kinaesthetic practice with sky writing and tracing patterns to help children with pencil flow a word bank which provides pre-selected examples of words featuring the handwriting unit focus to enable relevant practice. Word bank words can be pulled onto the screen so children can come to the whiteboard to identify the relevant join, trace and copy it. A gallery featuring samples of children’s mark-making and handwriting for discussion with your class. This stage builds on joining through a word, introducing more difficult joins.

Features

• Digital resources support direct teaching to the whole class using an interactive whiteboard.
• Lesson warm ups and physical activities develop and refine gross and fine motor skills.
• Animations of letter formation and key joins for the perfect model.
• Video clips give guidance on correct posture and pencil grip for right- and left-handed pupils.

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

1. Introducing joining to f
2. Introducing joining from f to ascender
3. Introducing joining from f, no ascender
4. Introducing joining from f to an anticlockwise letter
5. Introducing ff
6. Introducing rr
7. Introducing ss
8. Introducing qu
9. Revising parallel ascenders and descenders
10. Assessment

Term 3

1. Revising joins: letter spacing
2. Revising joins: spacing between words
3. Revising joins: consistency of size
4. Revising joins: fluency
5. Revising joins: parallel ascenders
6. Revising joins: parallel ascenders and descenders
7. Revising joins: anticlockwise letters
8. Revising break letters
9. Assessment: speed trial
10. Revisiting capital letters