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Build confidence and fluency in handwriting with flexible resources Teacher’s guides and practice books for Foundation to Year 6 to support a whole-school handwriting curriculum
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Create an effective handwriting curriculum with direct, consistent practice that helps all children to become confident, fluent writers Presentation slides, including letter for mation animations, are available in the down loadable files to support front-of-class and small gro up teaching
Sample taken from Teacher’s Guide 1
Each unit suggests varied activities to establish a writing routine and encourage regular practice
Develop the foundations of an accurate and efficient handwriting style with regular assessment opportunities
Scan the QR code to view sample lessons Take a closer look at how the series can support you to build strong writing foundations with a clear plan for frequent and discrete handwriting teaching.
Sample slide taken from Year 2, Unit 20 Downloads
Each Teacher’s Guide includes notes on writing position and pen or pencil grip to encourage a fluent and confident writing style
Letter formation practices help you to boost automatic handwriting skills and to identify any children who are inconsistent in their letter formation
Samples taken from Teacher’s Guide 5
Includes advice for supporting left-handed learners
Encourage a sense of achievement with write-in workbooks
Sample taken from Practice Book 4
Sample taken from Foundation Practice Book
Write-in practice books help child ren to track their progress and fee l proud of how their writing has improved
Meet the editor “If children can’t generate letters automatically, it interferes with their ability to read and write.” – Dr Jane Medwell Jane Medwell started her career as a teacher in schools in England and Wales, teaching across the age phases. Her interest in languages, early literacy and English led her into university teaching, and she is now an associate professor at the University of Nottingham, researching and writing into handwriting and primary education.
A structured, cumulative and engaging programme of skills teaching How does Happy Handwriting help you meet the recommendations of the new writing framework? Happy Handwriting provides a clearly sequenced progression, supporting a gradual acquisition of skills from Foundation to Year 6. Stephanie Austwick from the author team outlines how the resources support the recommendations for each key stage below:
• Lined paper to print out in different sizes for different age groups
Reception — all the basics • Discrete daily teaching in small steps, with emphasis on teaching correct posture, pencil grip and letter formation right from the beginning, encouraging both gross and fine motor skills alongside talk • Repeated activities build a consistency of approach • Letters are taught in families according to their formation, and both letter names and alphabetical order are introduced
KS1 — joining and sentence work • Further emphasis is placed on posture, pencil grip and letter formation to ensure pupils develop a comfortable, fluent, legible style of writing • Pupils are encouraged to write whole sentences, with appropriate attention
to capital letters and punctuation. Letter names and alphabetical order are further embedded • Basic letter joins are introduced and there is a focus on frequently-used digraphs and letter combinations Please note: There is no national curriculum expectation that all handwriting should be joined, simply that it should be comfortable, legible and automatic.
KS2 — fluency, automacity and appropriateness to the task • There is a focus on appropriate punctuation, spacing and paragraphing • Skills such as proofreading, editing and improving are also developed by the end of Year 6, alongside raised teacher expectations and frequent opportunities for pupils to develop automaticity
Download your free Collins Handwriting font As a Happy Handwriting school, you have free access to our simple, modern font developed using latest research from around the world. Use on your computer to help you prepare materials or displays for your class. As well as cursive and non-cursive variations, you’ll also get our Dot and Arrow fonts, which use glyphs to emulate handwriting strokes.
ABCD The Collins Handwriting font contains 90 characters: A-Z in both upper and lowercase, figures, basic mathematical symbols, essential punctuation and three alternative characters (o v w) with outstrokes. The font comprises five weights: Thin, Light, Regular, SemiBold and Bold.
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