PenPals for Handwriting Year 4 Teacher’s Book (2nd Edition)

The Year 4 Penpals for Handwriting Teacher’s Book provides clear step-by-step instructions on how to teach each unit including: An outline of the unit’s key learning whole-class teaching support linked to Penpals Interactive links to the use of the corresponding Practice Books and workbooks with suggestions for both group work and independent work. suggestions for extra practice and home practice. Guidance on common errors and what to do about them. You'll also find a full scope and sequence for the whole scheme showing progression of skills and links to English National Curriculum requirements, a beginning of year assessment to help you track pupil progress and photocopy masters for extra handwriting practice and homework. The Year 4 Teacher’s Book provides clear step-by-step instructions on how to move children from learning letter formation and joins to more technical aspects like letter height and consistency. At this stage, children continue to join through a word with an understanding of break letters. They are taught and practise joining from p and b. The emphasis is on the size, proportion and spacing of their handwriting, as well as speed and fluency in discrete handwriting lessons and in their independent writing.

Features

• Comprehensive support material, written by experts.
• Step-by-step introduction and development of the unit objective.
• Penpals links letter-formation practice with spelling patterns.
• User-friendly portrait format in response to customer feedback.
• Gives you the language to teach handwriting and to correct common errors.

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