PenPals for Handwriting Year 4 Workbook (Pack of 10)

The Year 4 Penpals for Handwriting Workbook offers plenty of practice of the more technical aspects of handwriting such as letter height and consistency. The workbooks provide opportunities for additional guided practice of the unit’s handwriting focus and link it to a relevant grammar, punctuation or spelling focus to provide meaningful contextualised practice. The disposable two-colour write-in Workbooks are sold in packs of 10.

Features

• Offers children the opportunity to consolidate letter formation.
• Links to common exception words to reinforce essential learning.
• Reinforces work on phonics.
• Supported by lively illustrations.

CONTENTS

Term 1

1. Grammar: joining from p and b to ascender
2. Spelling: joining from p and b, no ascender
3. Spelling: Introducing diagonal join from p and b to an anticlockwise letter
4. Spelling: revising parallel ascenders and descenders
5. Spelling: writing words with break letters
6. Punctuation: spacing in common exception words
7. Spelling: relative size of letters
8. Punctuation: relative size of capitals
9. Grammar: speed and fluency
10. Assessment: GPS

Term 2

1. Spelling: parallel ascenders
2. Spelling: parallel ascenders and break letters
3. Spelling homophones: parallel ascenders and descenders
4. Spelling: relative size of letters
5. Spelling: proportion of letters
6. Spelling and grammar: spacing between letters and words
7. Punctuation: writing at speed
8. Grammar: fluency
9. Grammar: speed and fluency
10. Assessment: GPS

Term 3

1. Spelling: ou as in young
2. Spelling: y as in myth
3. Grammar: noun phrases
4. Grammar: fronted adverbials
5. Grammar: standard English
6. Spelling: prefixes dis–, mis–
7. Grammar: pronouns
8. Presentation
9. Assessment
10. Presentation