Unit FeatUres
Focus letter modelled: sitting on the bottom blue line and within the upper or lower red lines as appropriate for that letter. The helpful head, body and tail creature is always shaded to show where the lower-case letter is located within the lines.
Trace a pattern to warm up.
Track lower-case letters, with start dots and directional arrows, to introduce formal letter shapes.
Trace lower-case letters within lines to reinforce the letter and to help develop students’ kinaesthetic memory.
Write the letter on own, with start dots as a guide.
Artwork reinforces words beginning with the focus letter and provides links to phonic knowledge.
Trace the focus letter in words. Write the words on own, with start dots as a guide. This helps with spacing between letters and between words. This box is for the teacher and links handwriting to grammar, punctuation, spelling, vocabulary and literary elements such as onomatopoeia, rhyme, alliteration and word play, as well as literature. These literacy links support teachers and students in making connections between interrelated syllabus concepts. Note that the illustrations support or add meaning to the sample words and texts.
Trace and write the upper-case (capital) letter, with supportive directional arrows and start dots.
Handwriting Rules! Year 1 QLD Edition
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Trace and then independently write a sentence. All sentences model different aspects of the English curriculum appropriate for Year 1, while being fun and motivating for students.
Fun self-assessment feature to encourage students to take responsibility for their own progress.
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As you complete each page, find the letter here. Trace the letter and draw a picture.
Continue the patterns. Keep your pencil on the page.
Copy the patterns.
Continue the patterns. Keep your pencil on the page.
Copy the picture.
Practise.
Practise.
Practise.
Copy the patterns. Start at the dots.
Trace then write.
Trace then write.
monster mother
Handwriting: clockwise letter; body letter (m).
Grammar: simple sentence; action verb (munch); adjectives (merry, messy); nouns (monkeys, melons).
Punctuation: upper-case (capital) letter to start a sentence; full stop.
Spelling and vocabulary: mad, March, May, melon, meow, merry, mess, messy, Monday, monkey, monster, moo, mother, mud, mum, munch.
Literary elements: alliteration.
Trace then write.
Trace then write.
Merry monkeys munch
on messy melons.
Trace then write.
Trace then write.
Handwriting: clockwise letter; body letter (n).
Grammar: simple sentence; adverb (noisily); action verb (nibbled); proper noun (Nonna, Nina); common noun (noodles).
Punctuation: upper-case (capital) letter to start a sentence; full stop; apostrophe for possession (Nina’s).
Spelling and vocabulary: name, nest, new, newt, next, nibble, nice, nine, no, noodles, not, never, Nonna, November, now. Literary elements: alliteration.
Trace then write.
Trace then write.
Nina’s Nonna noisily
Trace then write.
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Trace then write.
howl hiss hum help
Handwriting: clockwise letter; head and body letter (ascender) (h).
Grammar: quoted speech; being verb (are); saying verb (shouted); adjective (hungry); exclamation; question.
Punctuation: upper-case (capital) letter to start a sentence; exclamation mark; quotation marks; question mark. Spelling and vocabulary: hair, hang, hawk, help, hen, hid, hide, hiss, hum, hog, home, honey, hospital, how, howl, hungry, heart. Literary elements: alliteration; onomatopoeia (hiss, howl); folk tale (Hansel and Gretel).
Trace then write.
Trace then write.
“Hello! How are you?”
shouted hungry Hansel.
Trace then write.
K
k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k
Trace then write.
kiss kitten kindly
Handwriting: clockwise letter; head and body letter (ascender) (k).
Grammar: simple sentence; proper noun (King Kong); common noun (knots); action verb (knitting).
Punctuation: upper-case (capital) letter to start a sentence; full stop.
Spelling and vocabulary: key, kind, kiss, kitten, koala; silent k (knee, knew, knit, knots, know).
Literary elements: alliteration; story character (King Kong); anthropomorphism.
Trace then write.
K k K K K
Trace then write.
King Kong knew he
kept knitting knots.