Penpals for Handwriting is a complete handwriting scheme for 3-11 year olds. The Penpals for Handwriting Intervention Book 1 is designed to identify and support children who need additional help and practice with forming letters and starting to join. Children will revisit key learning from each term, offering additional opportunities for consolidation, assessment and revision. The book includes a series of baseline assessments with clear guidance and signposting for teachers on how to progress.

Penpals for Handwriting is a complete handwriting scheme for 3-11 year olds. The Foundation 2 Penpals for Handwriting Teacher's Book consolidates the gross and fine motor skills developed at Foundation 1 and introduces the letter family approach. The colourful and appealing Long-Legged Giraffe, Curly Caterpillar, One-Armed Robot and Zig-Zag Monster introduce children to letter formation in a fun and exciting way. The Teacher's Book includes suggestions for using the Foundation 2 Penpals for Handwriting Interactive resource, along with full differentiated planning for whole-class sessions for Foundation 1 and 2 children. In addition, a scope and sequence chart, photocopy masters and writing mats for left- and right-handers are included.

Penpals for Handwriting is a complete handwriting scheme for 3-11 year olds. The Penpals for Handwriting Intervention Book 2 is designed to identify and support children who need additional help and practice with legibility and securing joins. Children will revisit key learning from each term, offering additional opportunities for consolidation, assessment and revision. The book includes a series of baseline assessments with clear guidance and signposting for teachers on how to progress.

Penpals for Handwriting is a complete handwriting scheme for 3-11 year olds. The Penpals for Handwriting Intervention Book 3 is designed to identify and support children who need additional help and practice with increasing the speed and fluency of their writing. Children will revisit key learning from each term, offering additional opportunities for consolidation, assessment and revision. The book includes a series of baseline assessments with clear guidance and signposting for teachers on how to progress.

Penpals for Handwriting is a complete handwriting scheme for 3-11 year olds that offers clear progression through five developmental stages: physical preparation for handwriting; securing correct letter formation; beginning to join along, securing the joins and practicing speed, fluency and developing a personal style. Penpals is focused on whole-class teaching using digital resources to enable modelling and interactive learning, along with Practice Books and Workbooks to support independent work. The Foundation content is in line with the EYFS Framework and the Year 1-6 content supports frequent, discrete and direct teaching of handwriting for 5-11 year olds, as required by National Curriculum 2014. Penpals supports all UK curricula and CIE Primary English curriculum.

Penpals for Handwriting is a complete handwriting scheme for 3-11 year olds. The Year 6 Penpals for Handwriting Teacher's Book includes best practice guidance on helping children master speed and fluency and offers suggestions on how to use the Year 6 Penpals for Handwriting Interactive activities. By this stage, children should be confident in writing by hand. Children are introduced to developing style for speed and looking at different handwriting styles for different purposes. They make choices about which letters to join to develop a personalised style as well as tools for writing.

Penpals for Handwriting is a complete handwriting scheme for 3-11 year olds. The Year 2 Teacher's 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.