HANDWRITING FOR VICTORIA
THIRD EDITION
SAMANTHA DONNAN
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.
Trace and then copy.
Trace and then copy this sentence on the lines below.
Fred got a fish from the market on Friday.
Put a circle around your best letter and word on each page. Explain your choice to your teacher or classmate. Self-assessment
HANDWRITING FOR VICTORIA OXFORD
My inventor’s profile................................................................
My progress passport
Before you begin writing ... ..............................................Ñ
Revision
Victorian Modern Cursive print ....................................Ö
Fluency patterns
Diagonal joins .............................................................................
Diagonal joins to tall letters
Drop in joins ...............................................................................
Horizontal joins
Horizontal joins to anti clockwise letters .................
Horizontal joins to tall letters
Letters that do not join .......................................................
Capital letters.............................................................................ÅÖ
Joins from q to u .....................................................................
Consolidating
Assessment: All joins ..............................................................
Smaller lines
Writing on smaller lines .................................................
Tricky joins
Joins to s
Joins to e .....................................................................................
Joins to f......................................................................................ÇÖ
Joins to z and to and from x ......................................
Consolidating
Assessment: Tricky joins .....................................................
More tricky joins
Practising tricky joins ...........................................................
The letter f
Double letters..............................................................................ÉÉ
Practising tricky joins
Consolidating ...........................................................................
Assessment: More tricky joins
Handwriting hints
Letter size and spacing
Spacing between letters ...................................................
Spacing between words.......................................................ÑÅ
Slope ..............................................................................................
Consolidating
Assessment: Handwriting hints ..................................
Fluency and legibility
Letters and words ..................................................................
Co mmon blends and digraphs
Practising cursive writing ................................................
Consolidation
Punctuation marks ..............................................................
Timeline ........................................................................................
Crossword
Speed loops preview
Speed loops to b, h, k and l
Speed loops from g, j, y and z .......................................
Independent writing
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Spacing between words
Learning intention:
To focus on the spacing between words
Looking at these sound waves, you can see spaces. There is also a space bar on the keyboard. We need spaces in sound, in our typing and in our writing to make sense of things. Tip!
I am successful when I can: check my 3Ps make spaces even write letters of the same size.
Rewrite this passage, using even spaces between the words.
When words are too cose together or too far apart, it makes the writing difficult to read. The spaces between words need to be even, and letters must be of the same size.
Self-assessment
Assess how you are going with the spacing between letters and words.
I need some mo re practice
I’m making progress I’ve got it!
Teacher comment
Copy this passage, keeping a consistent size for your letters and even spaces between the words.
Professor Fiona Wood is a plastic surgeon and burns specialist who lives in Perth. Professor Wood and Marie Stoner invented “spray-on skin”. This techni ue was a world first and has saved the lives of thousands of people with severe burns. In 2005, Fiona Wood was named Australian of the Year.
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