Handwriting Conventions 1 (NSW Foundation Handwriting Style)

Teachers 4 Teachers Handwriting Conventions 1 is the second in a series of seven books designed to assist in the development of skills necessary to write in the Foundation Handwriting style. These books follow a K-6 sequential program whose continuum follows NSW syllabus guidelines. In this book, Year 1 students review the fundamental letter shapes of the Foundation Manuscript (printing) style. They also begin printing words and sentences

Handwriting Conventions has been designed, written and illustrated by Steve Murray a very professional and experienced primary school teacher who doubles as an award winning artist. Teachers and students love the creative, quirky artworks and engaging activities included on every page. Each book contains a double-sided slope card.

Stimulating Content

The exercises in this book have been designed to capture the interests of Year 1 students. Children will find the letter shape reinforcement drills utilising fun cartoons very engaging. Drill reinforcing both upper case and lower case letters take the form of:

• finding a tracing letter shapes hidden within a picture
• tracing individual letters in a series
• copying and forming letters from scratch
• tracing and copying words in isolation
• tracing and copying simple sentences

The numerals covered include 11 to 20, and all tens to 100.

Slope Card

A slope card is provided with this textbook. It should be used as an aid for all handwriting lessons. Its regular use reinforces relevant spatial relations.

Assessment

Assessment is an important phase of any educational program. To assist classroom teachers in their evaluation of students' handwriting progress a battery of assessment pages is included at the back of this book. Each assessment page concentrates on a specific bracket of learning based upon the three movement models: downstroke; clockwiseanti-clockwise.

Subject: Handwriting