Penpals for Handwriting Year 5 Teacher's Book

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.