T1 Handwriting & Digital Technologies

EN2-3A uses effective handwriting and publishes texts using digital technologies

Learning content:

• recognise that effective handwriting and presentation of work is required in order to communicate effectively for a range audiences

• write using NSW Foundation Style cursive, as appropriate, and explore joins that facilitate fluency and legibility

• recognise that legibility requires consistent size, slope and spacing

• write using clearly-formed joined letters, and develop increased fluency and automatically

• use a range of software including word processing programs to construct, edit and publish written text, and select, edit and place visual, print 

Complete pages 10 - 13 in Handwriting Conventions 3 book to revise correct way of printing individual letters.

Complete pages 14-15 of Handwriting Conventions 3 book.

Complete page 16 in Handwriting Conventions 3 book.

Look carefully at the examples on page 17 of Handwriting Conventions 3, to see how to make exit hooks on some letters.  You need to do this without taking your pencil off the page when writing a letter.

Complete pages 17 - 18 of Handwriting Conventions 3.  Trace each letter and then copy it underneath.

Practise using exit hooks on your letters by completing pages 19 - 21.

Even though we are learning to make exit hooks on some of our letters, we only use them on some letters.  Also we never use exit hooks on capital letters.

Complete pages 22-23 of Handwriting Conventions 3.

Get some more practise with exit hooks on pages 24 - 25 of Handwriting Conventions 3.

Complete page 26 in your Handwriting Conventions 3 book.

Look at the examples on page 27 in your book and see how to make exit dips on the letters v, w and x.

Now complete pages 28 and 29 of Handwriting Conventions 3.