NSW Targeting Handwriting: 3 Student Book 9781877085383
- Jane Pinsker, Stephen Michael King
- Pascal Press
- 31/12/2002
- ISBN: 9781877085383
RRP: $17.95 (Inc. GST)
Description
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.