HANDWRITING FOR QUEENSLAND
THIRD EDITION
SAMANTHA DONNAN
SAMPLE
Have you checked your posture, pencil grip and paper position? Have you done your warm-ups?
Track, trace and copy the letters and words
Trace and then copy the letter.
C C C C C C C C
Trace and then copy this sentence on the lines below.
Cam, the black cat, came back home for dinner. Cam, back
Put a circle around your best letter and word on each page. Explain your choice to your teacher or classmate. Self-assessment
HANDWRITING FOR QUEENSLAND
My inventor’s profile ................................................................
My progress passport
Before you begin writing ... ...............................................
Revision
Queensland Beginner’s print ...............................................
Exits and entries
Fluency pat terns ........................................................................
Diagonal joins
Diagonal joins to tall letters .................................................â
Drop−in joins
Horizontal joins ...........................................................................
Horizontal joins to anti−clockwise letters
Horizontal joins to tall letters............................................
Letters that do not join
The letter q does not join....................................................ÅÖ
Capital letters
Consolidating ..............................................................................
Assessment: All joins
Practising joins
Joins to s
Joins to e .....................................................................................
Joins to
Joins to
Consolidating
More practice with joins
Getting faster ...........................................................................
Double let ters
Consolidating .............................................................................
Assessment: More practice with joins
Handwriting hints
Letter size and spacing .......................................................
Spacing between letters
Spacing between words ......................................................
SAMPLE
Assessment: Practising joins .............................................
Consolidating ............................................................................
Assessments: Handwriting hints
Fluency and legibility
Letters and words
Practise cursive writing
Assessment: Fluency and legibility
Consolidation
Punctuation marks
Numerals .....................................................................................
Crossword ...................................................................................
Independent writing
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Letters that do not join
Learning intention:
To write letters that have clockwise finishers
Letters that finish in a clockwise direction do not join.
Trace and then copy these letters that finish in a clockwise direction.
b g j p s y
Copy these letter pairs and words on the lines below.
The letter q does not join
The letter q finishes in an anticlockwise direction, but it also does not join.
Trace and then copy these letter pairs with qu.
Learning intention:
To practise writing the letter q
Copy these words and then draw a line to match each word to its picture. The first one is done for you.
