Starter quiz
- Which of the following are helpful ways to sit for handwriting?
- with your feet flat on the floor ✓
- with your legs crossed
- with your stomach against the table ✓
- with your back against the chair ✓
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- True or false? Holding a pencil in the tripod grip helps us with our handwriting.
- True ✓
- False
- What's a good way to warm up your hands before practising your handwriting?
- jumping up and down
- hand exercises ✓
- wrist exercises ✓
- practising writing patterns ✓
- skipping
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- True or false? There are 28 letters in the alphabet.
- True
- False ✓
- True or false? A capital letter is the upper case formation of a letter.
- True ✓
- False
- Which of the following are correct uses of capital letters?
- for the pronoun 'they' in the middle of a sentence
- at the start of a sentence ✓
- for all nouns
- for proper nouns ✓
- for the pronoun 'I' ✓
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- Pre-cursive letters all start on the baseline with a lead in
- The letters i, l and t all have a lead in and a lead out
- We remember where to start by saying 'Ready, line, go'
- The letters i, l and t are all formed by going up and then down
Common misconception
Children may form the print version of the letter and then add the 'lead in' seperately.
Model and emphasise saying 'Ready, line, go' to remind them that the letter starts with the lead in on the baseline for pre-cursive letters.
Keywords
Pre-cursive - the stage of writing where children begin to learn and practise the joining of individual letters, preparing them for cursive writing
Lead in - the stroke or line that guides us into starting a letter
Lead out - the stroke or line that guides us to smoothly finish a letter
Baseline - this is the line that most letters sit on
Ascender - the part of a letter that extends above the x-height line
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