| During Years 1-3, students will first learn the Queensland Beginner's Alphabet, move on to learn the letters with exits and entries during the Transition stage, and then learn how to join the letters to form Queensland Modern cursive. These are crucial years in students' development of fluent and legible handwriting. The Targeting Handwriting series provides everything you'll need to give your students a thorough grounding and lots of practice in all the vital handwriting skills.
The Targeting Handwriting Years 1-3 Teacher Resource Book features: - Information on the mechanics of writing - Ideas for pre-writing warm-ups - Teaching notes for each year - Handwriting skills checklists for each year - Pattern props and stories for demonstrating handwriting movement patterns - A detailed 8-week Fine Motor Skills Program for use with Year 1 - Specific teaching notes on all the different joins - 74 fun blackline master - these include tracking, tracing and independent writing activities and incorporate practice of numerals, number words and punctuation. |