Kinaesthetic practice with sky writing and tracing patterns to help children with pencil flow A gallery featuring samples of children’s mark-making and handwriting for discussion with your class. In addition, a scope and sequence chart, photocopy masters and writing mats for left- and right-handers are included. Penpals Foundation 2 Teacher's Book consolidates the gross and fine motor skills developed at Foundation 1 and introduces the letter family approach. Penpals is focused on whole-class teaching using digital resources to enable modelling and interactive learning, along with Practice Books and Workbooks to support independent work.

Penpals | Alaw Primary School

Supports Early Learning Goals for Communication and Language Development, Physical Development, Personal, Social and Emotional Development, Writing and Expressive Arts and Design. The Foundation content is in line with the EYFS Framework and the Year 1–6 content supports frequent, discrete and direct teaching of handwriting for 5–11 year olds, as required by National Curriculum 2014. It teaches children a fast and fluent handwriting style to help them achieve their potential in writing. Penpals for Handwriting is a complete handwriting scheme for 3–11 year olds, offering clear progression through five developmental stages. Since 1985, in partnership with Type Designer Adrian Williams a whole range of font products for reading and handwriting education in schools has been developed.

Penpals Foundation 1 Interactive supports Early Learning Goals for Communication and Language Development; Physical Development; Personal, Social and Emotional Development; Writing; and Expressive Arts and Design. Penpals for Handwriting is a complete handwriting scheme for 3–11 year olds that offers clear progression through five developmental stages: physical preparation for handwriting; securing correct letter formation; beginning to join along, securing the joins and practicing speed, fluency and developing a personal style. Penpals for Handwriting Foundation 1: Interactive uses activities which support direct teaching of the unit focus to the whole class using an interactive whiteboard.

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The Teacher’s Book provides comprehensive teaching guidance for all units and includes: An outline of the unit’s key learning whole-class teaching support linked to Penpals Interactive links to the use of the corresponding Practice Books and workbooks with suggestions for both group work and independent work. We put teachers at the heart of everything we do – whether that’s creating resources to meet your needs or providing you with free classroom materials. Sky-writing and lesson warm-ups develop the fine and gross motor skills that are crucial for handwriting. It includes exciting lesson warm-ups and physical activities to develop and refine gross and fine motor skills, along with plenty of free-flow and scaffolded mark-making practice on the interactive whiteboard. Suitable for representing hand written letterforms, they are now used worldwide for the teaching of phonics, reading and handwriting.

The colourful and appealing Long-Legged Giraffe, Curly Caterpillar, One-Armed Robot and Zig-Zag Monster introduce children to letter formation in a fun and exciting way. Penpals Foundation 2 Teacher's Book includes suggestions for using the Foundation 2 Penpals for Handwriting Interactive resource, along with full differentiated planning for whole-class sessions for Foundation 1 and 2 children. The Foundation 1 Interactive introduces patterns and mark-making in the classroom and supports modelling and interactive learning for the whole class.