Kate Ruttle

Latest title in the Target Ladders series for teachers addressing eight key areas of challenge for children with working memory and auditory processing difficulties.

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. 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 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 Year 3 Penpals for Handwriting Teacher's Book provides teachers with clear guidance on how to consolidate the joins learnt in Year 2 and assist children to master more complicated joins. At this stage, children build on joining through a word with an understanding of break letters. They are taught and practise some trickier joins e.g. joining from s, from r, and to and from f. The emphasis is on legibility, consistency (e.g. parallel ascenders and descenders) and fluency, both in discrete handwriting lessons and in their independent writing.

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 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.

Penpals for Handwriting is a complete handwriting scheme for 3–11 year olds. The Year 6 Penpals for Handwriting Practice Book is designed for guided group work, once the initial handwriting focus has been illustrated using the Year 6 Penpals for Handwriting Interactive resource. The opportunity to practise handwriting is particularly important in helping children develop speed and fluency in their writing.

Penpals for Handwriting is a complete handwriting scheme for 3–11 year olds. The Practice Books provide specific handwriting focused practice – introducing or practising letters, joins or key concepts such as size and proportion. They are designed to support independent practice in the classroom, following a whole-class teaching session. Each page corresponds to the units within the Teacher's Books and includes opportunities for: Finger and pencil tracing, writing letters or joins; Writing phrases or sentences; Pattern practice; Self-assessment check. The opportunity to practise handwriting is particularly important in helping Year 5 children develop speed and fluency in their writing. At this stage, children are also introduced to a sloped style of writing.

Penpals for Handwriting is a complete handwriting scheme for 3–11 year olds. The Practice Books provide specific handwriting focused practice – either introducing or practising letters, joins or key concepts such as size and proportion. They are designed to support independent practice in the classroom, following a whole-class teaching session. Each page corresponds to the units within the Teacher's Books and includes opportunities for: Finger and pencil tracing, writing letters or joins; Writing phrases or sentences; Pattern practice; Self-assessment check. In Year 4, we move on from letter formation and joins to look at more technical aspects such as letter height and formation.