Handwriting is a core phonics skill and an essential part of learning phonics.
Letter recognition develops faster when children write real letters, enabling them to learn how to read sooner.

Although your school’s phonics programme may include handwriting, Letter-join delivers a complete handwriting scheme with a structured and consistent approach.
'Teachers should therefore introduce regular explicit handwriting instruction, in addition to phonics, early in reception.'

Letter-join’s whole school handwriting scheme is the perfect companion to your phonics teaching, ensuring progression in handwriting through each year group and across the school.
'Leaders therefore need to ensure that, in addition to a good phonics programme that will teach children to recognise letters and spell words, they have an agreed, whole-school approach to teaching handwriting so that children have the best chance to learn to handwrite.'

Watch how Letter-join’s phonics handwriting activities can support your phonics programme >

Letter-join’s phonics resources are designed to complement your school's validated phonics programme, providing an extension to your pupils’ phonics learning and helping them to meet National Curriculum requirements. It offers a wide range of engaging games, activities and worksheets linking the phonemes and graphemes in phases 2 to 5 with handwriting practice.

Activities include online games and activities to strengthen children’s phonics learning, as well as handwriting worksheets using phonics sentences and stories with highlighted phonemes and graphemes. All resources are available in your chosen printed or cursive class font.

Explore Letter-join's phonics and handwriting resources, free for 30 days. The free trial requires no billing information and there is no obligation to buy at the end of the trial. Staff and pupils across the same school can share the free trial on PCs, IWBs and tablets.