The Targeting Handwriting Teacher Resource Book provides useful information on the mechanics of writing ( for example: posture, pencil grip and paper position) and on the teching of handwriting, as well as photocopiable handwriting pattern props and a handwriting skills checklist. 

In Excel English Early Skills: Ending Consonant Sounds, your child will learn to better understand the relationship between letters and their sounds, and recognise the ending sounds of words.

In Excel English Early Skills: Vowel Sounds, your child will learn about vowel sounds and the letters they represent.  They will listen for the sound of vowels at the beginning of words, recognise vowel sounds in the middle of words and match up words that rhyme.