Penpals for Handwriting Year 1 Teacher's Book

At this stage, we begin to look at letters within words, providing an opportunity to practise spelling and grammar.

Additionally, formation of numbers 0–100 (in words and numerals) are included at this stage to tie in with the National Curriculum 2014 for Mathematics. The four families of letter join are introduced at the end of this year.

The Year 1 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.

• 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.