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Penpals for Handwriting

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Cover of Cambridge Handwriting at Home: Forming Uppercase Letters

Cover of Cambridge Handwriting at Home: Forming Cursive Letters

Cover of Cambridge Handwriting at Home: Forming Manuscript Letters

Cover of Penpals for Handwriting Year 6 Practice Book
Penpals for Handwriting is a complete handwriting scheme for 3–11 year olds. The Year 6 Penpals for Handwriting Practice Book is designed for guided group work, once the initial handwriting focus has been illustrated using the Year 6 Penpals for Handwriting Interactive resource. The opportunity to practise handwriting is particularly important in helping children develop speed and fluency in their writing.

Cover of Penpals for Handwriting Year 5 Practice Book
Penpals for Handwriting is a complete handwriting scheme for 3–11 year olds. The Practice Books provide specific handwriting focused practice – 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. The opportunity to practise handwriting is particularly important in helping Year 5 children develop speed and fluency in their writing. At this stage, children are also introduced to a sloped style of writing.

Cover of Penpals for Handwriting Year 1 Practice Book
The Penpals for Handwriting Year 1 / Primary 2 Practice Book provides opportunities to consolidate letter shapes and begins a systematic introduction to joining.

Cover of Penpals for Handwriting Year 1 Big Book
Penpals for Handwriting Year 1/Primary 2 Big Book focuses on consolidating letter shapes and begins a systematic introduction to joining.

Cover of Penpals for Handwriting Year 2 Practice Book
Continues the joining progression from Year 1, revising and developing joins.

Cover of Penpals for Handwriting Foundation 2 Big Book
Penpals for Handwriting Foundation 2 Big Book prepares children for handwriting, consolidating motor control and introducing letter shapes through enjoyable activities.

Cover of Cambridge Handwriting at Home: Getting Ready for Handwriting

Cover of Penpals for Handwriting Year 4 Practice Book
Penpals for Handwriting is a complete handwriting scheme for 3–11 year olds. 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.

Cover of Penpals for Handwriting Year 3 Practice Book
Penpals for Handwriting is a complete handwriting scheme for 3–11 year olds. 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.

Cover of Penpals for Handwriting Evaluation Booklet
Penpals for Handwriting is a complete handwriting scheme for 3–11 year-olds, covering attainment targets for the National Literacy Strategy. Teaching letter shapes and joins through stimulating and motivating activities, this scheme leads the way to fast, fluent and legible handwriting. Whole-class teaching via Big Books and OHTs provides an effective focus, from which pupils can gain the confidence for their own practice through finger tracing, pencil tracing and independent writing via Practice Books. From the beginning, the application of Fine and Gross Motor skills plays an integral part in the development of a fluent hand. The teaching methods outlined in Penpals are linked to spelling and can help to improve overall attainment in writing. The free evaluation booklet gives an overview of the scheme, with sample pages from each component in selected years from Foundation 1 to Year 6.

Cover of Penpals for Handwriting Year 2 Big Book
The Penpals for Handwriting Year 2/Primary 3 Big Book continues the joining progression from Year 1, revising and developing joins.

Cover of Penpals for Handwriting Year 3 Big Book
The Penpals for Handwriting Year 3 Big Book provides valuable revision of more complex joins, reinforcing links with spelling and supporting the move towards fluency.

Cover of Penpals for Handwriting Year 4 Big Book
The Penpals for Handwriting Year 4/Primary 5 Big Book reinforces joins within a word, introduces sloped writing and investigates size, proportion and space, emphasising the need for speed and fluency.

Cover of Penpals for Handwriting Year 3 Workbook (Pack of 10)

Cover of Penpals for Handwriting Year 2 Workbook (Pack of 10)

Cover of Penpals for Handwriting Foundation 2 Interactive Download
Penpals for Handwriting is a complete handwriting scheme for 3–11 year olds. Penpals for Handwriting (second edition) Foundation 2 Interactive supports direct teaching to the whole class. This stage builds upon the gross and fine motor skills developed at Foundation 1 stage. Penpals Foundation 2 Interactive prepares children for handwriting, consolidating motor skills. At Foundation 2, the four letter families are introduced: Long-Legged Giraffe, Curly Caterpillar, One-Armed Robot and Zig-Zag Monster. This product is sold on a perpetual site and network licence for Windows.

Cover of Penpals for Handwriting Year 3 Interactive Download
Penpals for Handwriting is a complete handwriting scheme for 3–11 year olds. Penapls for Handwriting Year 3: Interactive uses activities which support direct teaching of the unit focus to the whole class using an interactive whiteboard. This stage builds on joining through a word, introducing more difficult joins. This product is sold on a perpetual site and network licence.