PenPals for Handwriting Year 3 Practice Book

The Practice Books provide specific handwriting focused practice – either introducing or practising letters, joins or key concepts such as size and proportion. They are designed to support independent practice in the classroom, following a whole-class teaching session. Each page corresponds to the units within the Teacher’s Books and includes opportunities for: Finger and pencil tracing, writing letters or joins Writing phrases or sentences Pattern practice. Self-assessment check. In Year 3 we move on from basic joins to mastering more complicated joins.

Features

• Ideal for use in smaller groups.
• Augments the interactive resource.
• Provides plenty of opportunity to perfect letter formation through repetition.

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