NSW Targeting Handwriting : Year 3 : Student Book

NSW Targeting Handwriting : Year 3 : Student Book
ISBN: 9781877085383
Publication Date: 1 January 2001

The Targeting Handwriting NSW Year 3 Student Book focuses on teaching the basic joins.

Features of the book includes:
- Diagonal joins, drop-in joins and horizontal joins
- Letters that don't join
- Letters with exits and entries as a useful and practical transitional stage between printing and cursive
- Tracking exercises to introduce exits, entries and joins.

Handwriting is one of the most crucial skills students will develop in primary school. Targeting Handwriting covers the handwriting curriculum in a clear and structured way, with content directly linked to NSW syllabus outcomes. Writing is a vital, compelling form of communication. Children need to write every day, for a variety of purposes and for a variety of audiences. To be competent writers, their handwriting needs to be fluent and legible. The teaching of handwriting is an essential part of the writing curriculum.