Handwriting, Letters, Words, Sentences Year 2

Handwriting, Letters, Words and Sentences (NSW Foundation Style) offers a major point of difference for students. Each book is designed to help the teacher and student to treat handwriting in the classroom as an extension to the new English Syllabus K–2.

Stages and sequences for the teaching of handwriting have been set out in this book along with a variety of strategies and with a detailed Program of Achievement, Objectives and a Lesson Register.

The student is encouraged to practise basic movements, fluencies, letter shapes, words, sentences and letter shape families. Numerals one to twenty are treated also. Letters are practised in the context of words and extend to sentences with capital letters. All aspects of handwriting are extended as a student's skills develop in the handwriting process.

All lower case and capital letters use the strategies of track, trace and copy. Then students are exposed to sentences using capital and lower case letters. When capital letters are practised, the student can copy sentences.

At the completion of each lesson, the teacher can use the Outcomes Checklist to evaluate and monitor the development of handwriting skills, assist with monitoring the development of handwriting skills.

A tear-out slope card is included in the centre of each book for use under pages where writing is important in classroom exercise books. The slope card will help students develop and maintain a 7 degree slope with all writing.