HANDWRITING & USING DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES

STAGE TWO
Stage Two EN2-3A
Year Four
Uses effective handwriting and publishes texts using digital technologies
Develop and apply contextual knowledge
*recognise that effective handwriting and presentation of work is required in order to communicate effectively for a range of audiences
Understand and apply knowledge of language forms and features
Content

*write using NSW Foundation Style cursive, as appropriate, and explore joins that facilitate fluency and legibility
*recognise that legibility requires consistent size, slope and spacing
Respond to and compose texts
*write using clearly-formed joined letters, and develop increased fluency and automaticity (ACELY1684, ACELY1696)
*use a range of software including word processing programs to construct, edit and publish written text, and select, edit and place visual, print and audio
elements (ACELY1685, ACELY1697)
Starts at top of every upper case letter and number
Starts at top of most lower case letters
Starts in the middle of d and e
Correct directionality
Posture
Left to right
Size, shape, slope
Focus

Spacing of words
Fluency patterns
Entries and exits
Joining letters
Fluency of writing
Legibility
use a range of software including word processing programs to construct, edit and publish written text, and select, edit and place
visual, print and audio element
Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4
Exit Kicks Revision of exit kicks family
l, i, t, a, d, n, m, h , k, v, w,
Entry Kicks Revision of entry kicks family
i, j, m, n, p, r, u, v, y
Do drop Ins Revision of o, c, a, x
Joining to e - horizontal joins to e o, r, v, w, x
Letters that dont join b, s, g, e
Practise of anticlockwise joins
Sequence of Formations

Practise of clockwise joins

Horizontal joins x, o, v, r, w, f (letter f - horizontal join
from its crossbar)
Joining to f-2 types of joining to f
Horizontal Joins x, o, v, r, w, f
letter f ~ horizontal join from its crossbar
Join a double f, and an f and a t with one line (blends
,words and sentences)
Joining letters to s o,, r, v, w, x, f, joined to s
New letter s Combination of joining line & s
Changed z Gives a large wave when joined to other
letters
Speed loops- long letters g, j, y
Speed loops- head, body, feet letters b,f
Speed loops- tall letters l, h, k
Capital letter joins A C E F H K M Q R U
Letters b, p and s can be joined to letters that come after
it
Calligraphy
Numbers and words from 1 to 100

Stephanie Westwood @ Cardiff North Public School