PenPals for Handwriting Year 5 Teacher’s Book (2nd Edition)

The Year 5 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 5 Teacher’s Book provides teachers with guidance on how to help children begin to master fast and fluent handwriting. Children systematically revisit all joins, tricky joins and ascenders and descenders in the context of sloped writing. They continue to focus on the size, proportion and spacing of their handwriting and their 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 sloped writing in letter families
2. Practising sloped writing: diagonal join to ascender
3. Practising sloped writing: diagonal join, no ascender
4. Practising sloped writing: diagonal join to an anticlockwise letter
5. Practising sloped writing: horizontal join to ascender
6. Practising sloped writing: horizontal join, no ascender
7. Practising sloped writing: horizontal join to an anticlockwise letter
8. Practising sloped writing: joining from r
9. Practising sloped writing: joining from s
10. Assessment

Term 2

1. Practising sloped writing: proportion – joining from f to ascender
2. Practising sloped writing: size – joining from f, no ascender
3. Practising sloped writing: different styles for different purposes
4. Practising sloped writing: size, proportion and spacing ff
5. Practising sloped writing: size, proportion and spacing rr
6. Practising sloped writing: size, proportion and spacing ss
7. Practising sloped writing: building speed qu
8. Different styles for different purposes
9. Different styles for different purposes
10. Assessment: making choices in handwriting

Term 3

1. Sloped writing: proportion, joining p and b to ascenders
2. Handwriting for different purpose: joining from p and b
3. Practising sloped writing: parallel ascenders and descenders pp, bb
4. Practising sloped writing: all double letters
5. Practising sloped writing for speed
6. Practising sloped writing for fluency
7. Personal style
8. Handwriting for different purposes: print alphabet
9. Assessment
10. Capitals