H ndwriting Rules!
This edition published in 2021 by
Matilda Education Australia, an imprint of Meanwhile Education Pty Ltd Level 1/274 Brunswick St Fitzroy, Victoria Australia 3065
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First edition published in 2015 by Macmillan Science and Education Australia Pty Ltd
Copyright © Katy Collis, Alexandra Kennedy/Macmillan Education Australia 2015
Handwriting Rules! Victorian Modern Cursive Foundation Student Workbook ISBN 978 1 4586 5029 0
Editor: Laura Jordan
Production controller: Janine Biderman
Publisher: Sharon Dalgleish
Design: Trish Hayes
Illustrations: Stephen Michael King
Fun picture and chant provide a multi-sensory context, as well as a link to phonics.
Rhythmic handwriting patterns and a variety of activities to help students develop fine motor control and fluency.
Tracking letters, with start dots and directional arrows, to introduce formal letter shapes.
Helpful information for the teacher, includes words to find in the artwork on the pages and additional useful words to reinforce each letter or for phonics work, or for students to use in their own writing.
Models of lower case and capital letters with start dots and directional arrows. Useful as models for gross motor movements, such as air writing.
More tracking letters with start dots and directional arrows.
Tracing letters with start dots help to develop students’ kinaesthetic memory.
Appealing artwork reinforces words beginning with the focus letter.
More tracing letters, this time within lines to reinforce how the letter sits in relation to the creature’s head, body and tail.
Start dots and base line for students to write their own letters. Students can also colour the appropriate section of the head, body and tail creature.
Model letters displayed in head, body and tail lines. Helpful creature sits on the base line, where all letters sit. Tall letters extend into the head section. Some letters drop below the base line where the creature’s tail hangs. (The creature is always shaded to show where the lower case letter is located within the lines.)
Patter phrases to say as you model the letters or as students form the letters. This aspect of the multi-sensory approach particularly supports students who are auditory learners as they associate the patter with the motor movements to form each letter.
QR codes link to animations showing correct letter formation. (Download a QR code reader from the App Store.)
(a word to describe me)
(my name)
My progress chart
Find the letter to match your completed page. Track the letter and colour the picture.
n m q r s t2
Handwriting: Tracking, left to right direction, fine motor control.
Handwriting: Patterning, left to right direction, fine motor control.
Handwriting: Patterning, downstroke and anticlockwise movements, left to right direction, fine motor control.
Handwriting: Patterning, downstroke, anticlockwise and clockwise movements, fine motor control.
Chant:
angry alligator a a a
Track the pattern. Keep your pencil on the page.
Trace the pattern. Keep your pencil on the page.
Trace the pattern.
Track.
a a a a a
Handwriting: anticlockwise letter, body letter (a).
Vocabulary on page: ant, anteater, angry, alligator.
Extra vocabulary: an, are, apple, cat, mat, sat, tap.
a A A a A
Track. Trace. Trace. Write. Patter
Start at one o’clock. Go left then curve down, around the bottom and back up to the start, then straight down and go up to exit. Keep your pencil on the page.
Trace the pattern.
Chant:
Find c.
Track.
Handwriting: anticlockwise letter, body letter (c).
Vocabulary on page: cool, cow, cat, cup, cake, candle.
Extra vocabulary: cold.
Track. Trace. Trace. Write.
c c c c c c c c c c C c C
Patter Start at one o’clock. Go left then curve down, around the bottom and up about halfway. Keep your pencil on the page.
Trace the pattern.
Chant: dirty dog d d d
Trace the pattern.
Track.
d d d d d
Handwriting: anticlockwise letter, head and body letter (d).
Vocabulary on page: dog, dirty.
Extra vocabulary: do, don’t, done, dip, lid, pad, down.
Track. Trace. Trace. Write.
d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d
Patter Start at one o’clock. Go left then curve down, around the bottom and up all the way to the top, then straight down and go up to exit. Keep your pencil on the page.
Trace the pattern.
Chant: giggly goanna g g g
Trace the pattern.
Trace the pattern.
Track.
g g g g g g
Handwriting: anticlockwise letter, body and tail letter (g).
Vocabulary on page: giggly, goanna.
Extra vocabulary: get, go, got, pig, dig, dog, hog, jog, egg.
Track. Trace. Trace. Write. Patter g g
Start at one o’clock. Go left then curve down, around the bottom and back up to the start, then straight down and go left to make a tail. Keep your pencil on the page.