Description
Book SynopsisHelp your child be the top of the class with the best-selling home-study series from Carol Vorderman.
Carol Vorderman can help your child learn good handwriting skills with this homeschool learning resource for 5-7 year olds. Handwriting Made Easy - Joined-up Writing is one of Carol Vorderman''s series of DK workbooks packed with notes, tips, and fact-boxes to make home learning handwriting skills easy and fun! Follow the exercises and activities with your child at home to strengthen their learning in school. Your child can keep track of all the exercises they have completed using the progress chart and colour in the topic stars as they go. Helpful parents'' notes explains what your child needs to know at each stage and what''s being covered in the national curriculum so you can support and homeschool your child with confidence.
This book will help your child develop a neat, consistent, and fluid style of handwriting. It covers topics including upper and lower-case letters, ascenders and descenders, how to join letters, and plenty of copying and creative-writing exercises. Developed in consultation with leading educational experts to support the new national curriculum learning, Handwriting Made Easy is a great way to improve your child''s handwriting skills - the more you practise, the better you''ll be! (Carol Vorderman)
Table of Contents
- 1: Lower-case letters
- 2: Capital letters
- 3: The first handwriting join
- 4: Handwriting practice
- 5: The second handwriting join
- 6: The third handwriting join
- 7: The fourth handwriting join
- 8: Joined handwriting
- 9: Handwriting styles
- 10: A poem
- 11: Colours
- 12: The ar sound
- 13: The oo, oy and ow sounds
- 14: The air and or sounds
- 15: The er, ear and ea sounds
- 16: The days of the week
- 17: The months of the year
- 18: Punctuation
- 19: Punctuation marks
- 20: Accuracy
- 21: Fiction and non-fiction
- 22: Story writing
- 23: Information books
- 24: Topic work
- 25: Questions
- 26: Personal information
- 27: Answer section with parents’ notes and glossary
