Cambridge Penpals for Handwriting Year 2 Teacher's Book

Penpals for Handwriting Year 2 Teacher's Book (Spiral Bound) Author/s: Gill Budgell and Kate Ruttle This Teachers book provides best-practice guidance on introducing the four types of letter join and supports the use of the Year 2 Penpals for Handwriting Interactive activities. At this stage, children start using some of the diagonal and horizontal joins. They are taught and then practise joins within digraphs and trigraphs. They begin to join through a word in stages and also learn about the break letters; they practise spacing between words; there is an emphasis on correct sizing of lowercase letters, capital letters and digits. This book is designed to help guide teachers through the idiosyncrasies of teaching pupils these techniques. Features: Includes comprehensive support material, written by experts. Step-by-step introduction and development for the unit objectives. Penpals links letter-formation practice with spelling patterns. User-friendly portrait format in response to customer feedback. Gives you the language to teach handwriting and to correct common errors.