Penpals for Handwriting provides five unique developmental phases to provide clear progression for children aged 3-11. The CD-ROMs support interactive, direct teaching to the whole class using an interactive whiteboard. Big Books also provide consolidation and extra practice for small groups working with a Teaching Assistant and are ideal for use with small groups. Essential learning is reinforced through links to phonics and spelling, and sky-writing and lesson warm ups develop the fine and gross motor skills. Penpals makes frequent links to other literacy objectives so handwriting lessons also become an opportunity to revise other aspects of writing. Letter-formation practice is linked with spelling patterns, resulting in efficient handwriting and higher quality writing.

 

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2003 by Cambridge University Press .

Kate Ruttle is a SENCO and Key Practitioner for Inclusion & Literacy in Suffolk. She has written many standardised tests for Hodder. Gill Budgell is a children s author whose books include the Penpals for Handwriting series. "

This book has the following chapters: Introduction; DEVELOPING GROSS MOTOR SKILLS; Unit 1; Introduction and the vocabulary of movement; Unit 2; Large movements for handwriting; Unit 3; Responding to music; DEVELOPING FINE MOTOR SKILLS; Unit 4; Introduction and hand and finger play; Unit 5; Making and modelling; Unit 6; Links to art; Unit 7; One-handed tools and equipment; DEVELOPING PATTERNS AND BASIC LETTER MOVEMENT; Unit 8; Pattern making; Unit 9; Responding to music; Unit 10; Straight line patterns; Unit 11; Investigating loops; Unit 12; Investigating circles; Unit 13; Investigating angled patterns; Unit 14; Investigating eights and spirals; Unit 4 nursery rhymes in full; Letter families; The lower case alphabet