PenPals for Handwriting Year 4 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 4, we move on from letter formation and joins to look at more technical aspects such as letter height and formation.

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. 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