The Year 6 Penpals for Handwriting Workbook gives children the opportunity to work on the speed and fluency of their writing. 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.
- Augments the interactive resource.
- Provides plenty of opportunity to perfect letter formation through repetition.
Table of Contents
- Term 1
- 1 Spelling – style for speed: –tion, –tious
- 2 Grammar – style for speed: antonyms
- 3 Grammar – style for speed: active and passive
- 4 Spelling – style for speed: –ence, –ent, –ance, –ant
- 5 Spelling – style for speed: –ise, –ice
- 6 Spelling – style for speed: looping from b
- 7 Spelling strategies – style for speed: syllabification
- 8 Presentation – different styles for different purposes: abbreviations
- 9 Grammar – spacing between words: informal and formal
- 10 Assessment
- Term 2
- 11 Improving handwriting – proportion: grammar cohesion and punctuation
- 12 Improving handwriting – proportion: grammar and spelling
- 13 Improving handwriting – spacing within words: punctuation hyphen
- 14 Improving handwriting – using the baseline: fronting adverbials
- 15 Improving handwriting – parallel ascenders and descenders: Spelling –ible, –able
- 16 Improving handwriting – closed and open letters: Spelling –ent, –ence, –ant, –ance
- 17 Improving handwriting fluency – grammar: subject and object noun phrases
- 18 Improving handwriting – pen breaks in longer words: colon, semi-colon and comma
- 19 Improving handwriting annotations – Grammar: ellipsis
- 20 Assessment
- Term 3
- 21 Handwriting for different purposes – grammar: conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions
- 22 Handwriting for different purposes – punctuation: parenthesis (dash, brackets, commas)
- 23 Handwriting for different purposes – grammar: verb tenses
- 24 Handwriting for different purposes – grammar: formal and informal synonyms
- 25 Handwriting for different purposes – grammar: punctuation and relative pronouns
- 26 Handwriting for different purposes – grammar: punctuation and main and subordinate clauses
- 27 Handwriting for different purposes – presentation: strategies for spelling
- 28 Handwriting for different purposes – Punctuation
- 29 Self-assessment
- 30 Certificate: practising patterns
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