Penpals for Handwriting Year 4 Interactive Download

Penapls for Handwriting Year 4: 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. In Year 4 we consolidate work on joins and begin to look at more technical aspects such as letter height and consistency. In addition, writing for different purposes is explored at this stage.

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. Introducing diagonal join from p and b to ascender
2. Introducing diagonal join from p and b, no ascender
3. Introducing diagonal join from p and b to an anticlockwise letter
4. Revising parallel ascenders and descenders: bb and pp
5. Break letters x and z
6. Spacing in common exception words
7. Relative size of letters
8. Relative size of capitals
9. Speed and fluency
10. Assessment

Term 2

1. Revising parallel ascenders
2. Revising parallel ascenders and break letters
3. Revising parallel ascenders and descenders
4. Relative size of letters
5. Proportion of letters
6. Spacing between letters and words
7. Writing at speed
8. Improving fluency
9. Speed and fluency
10. Assessment

Term 3

1. Consistency of size
2. Proportion
3. Spacing between letters and words
4. Size, proportion and spacing
5. Speed
6. Fluency
7. Speed and fluency
8. Print alphabet
9. Assessment
10. Capital letters