Penpals for Handwriting Year 3 Practice Book

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Year 3 Practice Book (7–8 years) Gill Budgell

Kate Ruttle

Series Consultants Sue Palmer Dr Rhona Stainthorp

Contents Joining letter sets

Inside front cover

Term 1 1 Revising joins in a word: long vowel phonemes 2 Revising joins in a word: lÿ 3 Revising joins in a word: i<n<g 4 Revising joins in a word: high frequency words 5 Revising joins in a word: new vocabulary 6 Revising joins in a word: u<n, dÿ 7 Revising joins to and from s: d<iƒ[ 8 Revising joins to and from r: r}e, pr}e 9 Revising joins to and from f: _‹@ #_@® 10 Revising joins: |u

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Term 2 11 Introducing joining b and p: diagonal join, no ascender, b©i, b©u, p©i, p©u 12 Practising joining b and p: diagonal join, no ascender, to an anticlockwise letter, b©a, b©o, p©a, p©o 13 Practising joining b and p: diagonal join to ascender, b©l, p©h 14 Relative sizes of letters: silent letters 15 Parallel ascenders: high frequency words 16 Parallel descenders: adding y to words 17 Relative size and consistency: l<y, lÿµ[µ[, _®@ u<l 18 Relative size and consistency: capitals 19 Speed and fluency practice: e©r, eµ[©t 20 Speed and fluency practice: opposites

12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21

Term 3 21 Consistency in spacing: m<iƒ[, a<n<t<i, ex 22 Consistency in spacing: n<on ú , c·o 23 Consistency in spacing: apostrophes 24 Layout, speed and fluency practice: address 25 Layout, speed and fluency practice: dialogue 26 Layout, speed and fluency practice: poem 27 Layout, speed and fluency practice: letter 28 Handwriting style: calligrams 29 Assessment 30 Handwriting style: acrostics

Capital and lower-case alphabet

22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 32

Inside back cover

1

Revising joins in a word: long vowel phonemes

Read and write these words.

Practise the joins.

e©a a<y o+a o+o i<lÿ

a<ga<i<n

Write the words.

bö©n

m<a<nÿ e©a<r

c·oa+ <t

t<i<mÿ

n<o@ü [@¿ pi<lÿ o®#f h<a<y Practise the pattern.

2

s©c·h<oo+ lß

h<oo+ #®f

2

Revising joins in a word:

lÿ

Practise the join.

lÿ lÿ lÿ

Write the sentence.

If yoúu t<i<c·k<lÿ t<hÿ c·a<õ‹<õª<lÿ, t<hÿ©y’l<l c·h<u<c·k<lÿ a<n<d gi<gglÿ.

Read and write these words.

kÿ©õ‹<õª<lÿ pu<r¬@plÿ bo®#õ‹<õª<lÿ c·i<r>c·lÿ

Practise the pattern.

3

3

Revising joins in a word:

i<n<g

Practise the joins.

i<n<g i<n<g i<n<g Copy the table. Fill in the gaps.

verb

i<n<g

form

r}e©a<d s©i<n<g ju<m<p c·a<l<l Practise the pattern.

4

Read and write these words.

r¬@u<n<n<i<n<g c·r¬@yi<n<g l<a<u<gh<i<n<g wër¬@i<t<i<n<g

4

Revising joins in a word: high frequency words

Read and write these words.

Write the heading.

Oppoü@ [©i<tæµ[

a<_@‹#õæª ©r

Copy the table. Fill in the gaps.

nÿ©w ba<c·k o®#_@‹ #_@® puƒ[©h go+od+ bi<g

l<i<v}e _®@r>onú <t pu<l<l ba<d

oún

oúve} ©r

oßl<d

n<i<gh<t

l<i<õ‹<õª<lÿ

Practise the pattern.

5

5

Revising joins in a word: new vocabulary Write the heading.

Syn<onú <ymƒ[

bl<a<c·k

Copy the table and fill it in. Add more words.

l<i<õ‹<õª<lÿ

l<aƒ[©t

bi<g

oßl<d

Practise the pattern.

6

Read and write these words.

a<n<c·iÿ©n<t c·oún<c·l<u<d<i<n<g s©m<a<l<l l<a<r>ge a<n<t<i<|uÿ h<u<ge _®@i<n<a<l t<i<n<y

br>ow ú ën gr}e©y oúr>a<n<ge