Penpals for Handwriting Year 1 Big Book

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Year 1 Big Book (5–6 years) Gill Budgell

Kate Ruttle

Series Consultants Sue Palmer Dr Rhona Stainthorp

Contents Lower-case and capital alphabet with directional arrows Inside front cover Term 1

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Term 2

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Letter formation practice: long ladder family Letter formation practice: one-armed robot family Letter formation practice: curly caterpillar family Letter formation practice: zig-zag monster family Practising the vowels: i Practising the vowels: u Practising the vowels: a Practising the vowels: o Practising the vowels: e Letter formation practice: capital letters

Introducing diagonal join to ascender: joining a<t, a<l<l Practising diagonal join to ascender: joining t<h Practising diagonal join to ascender: joining c·h Practising diagonal join to ascender: joining c·l Introducing diagonal join, no ascender: joining i<n, i<m Practising diagonal join, no ascender: joining c·r, t<r, d<r Practising diagonal join, no ascender: joining l<p, m<p Introducing diagonal join, no ascender, to an anticlockwise letter: joining i<d, i<g Practising diagonal join, no ascender, to an anticlockwise letter: joining n<d, l<d Practising diagonal join, no ascender, to an anticlockwise letter: joining n<g

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Term 3

21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

22 Practising diagonal join, no ascender: joining ö Practising diagonal join, no ascender: joining a<i, a<y 23 Practising diagonal join, no ascender: joining i<mÿ, i<nÿ 24 Introducing horizontal join, no ascender: joining oúp, oúy 25 Practising horizontal join, no ascender: joining oúne, oúme 26 Introducing horizontal join, no ascender, to an anticlockwise letter: joining o+a, o+g 27 Practising horizontal join, no ascender, to an anticlockwise letter: joining w>a, w>o 28 Introducing horizontal join to ascender: joining oßl, oßt 29 Practising horizontal join to ascender: joining w#h, oß@h 30 Introducing horizontal and diagonal joins to ascender, to an anticlockwise letter: joining oßf, i<f 31 Assessment 32

Joining letter sets

Inside back cover

1 Letter formation practice: long ladder family

l

i t u j y

l

2

2 Letter formation practice: one-armed robot family

r n p m b h k

r 3

co g a s d f eq 3 Letter formation practice: curly caterpillar family

c 4

4 Letter formation practice: zig-zag monster family

v bo w ip x iolin z ool 5

5 Practising the vowels: i

six

big little zip 6

lid