We are pleased to announce the launch of Letter-join’s new font, Letter-join Break. The Letter-join Break font supports schools wishing to teach handwriting using some unjoined letters, often referred to as ’break letters’.
All Letter-join’s resources are available in Letter-join Break:
• Letter and word animations
• Worksheets
• Games and activities
• Worksheet Generator
• Word Processor
• Dictation exercises
• Lesson Planners
• Downloadable font for MS Word
Key points include:
• No lead-in stroke
• Alternative letterforms for ‘f’ and ‘k’
• Letters that end on the left do not join to the following letter
• Descenders are unlooped
• The letter z is not joined
The national curriculum does not specify which letters, when adjacent to one another, are best left unjoined and the preferred style is the decision of each school. Letter-join Break can seamlessly follow on from ‘printed’ handwriting and provides an alternative to continuous, joined handwriting.
To help your school choose a handwriting style, we have produced a document explaining the different Letter-join routes into teaching handwriting.
Finding time to improve handwriting at Key Stage 2 can be challenging for teachers and pupils alike.
In this KS2 Presentation we take you through the resources available in Letter-join’s Handwriting Scheme which are designed specifically for your Key Stage 2 learners. Find out how to boost your pupils’ handwriting speed, stamina and quality to meet, if not exceed, national curriculum requirements.
The presentation includes examples of joined handwriting, modelling the expected outcomes that can be achieved in years 3, 4, 5 and 6, along with suggestions of Letter-join resources that can help achieve these targets.
To support Key Stage 2 handwriting at your school, Letter-join provides a suite of guidance documents including handwriting progression through the school, assessment tracking and intervention.
Scotland celebrates St Andrew, their patron saint, every year on the 30th of November.
On the annual celebration of St Andrew’s Day, people all around Scotland hold festivities and markets and attend dinners with traditional Scottish food, poetry, music and dance.
Engage your learners with some fun, St Andrew’s Day handwriting activities, from Letter-join’s latest series of worksheets for each key stage.
Click here to find these worksheets in your chosen font or type ’st andrew’ into the search bar.
Early Years
A fun activity for improving pre-writing skills and colouring the national flower of Scotland.
Key Stage 1
Pupils can learn about traditional Scottish foods by matching the pictures and phrases and then practise neat handwriting.
Key Stage 2
A great worksheet for your learners to find out all about traditional Scottish Highland dress and aim for neat handwriting when writing at length.
An editable presentation to use for your school’s handwriting workshop
Designed for teachers to present to parents and carers to support their children at home, this new Letter-join teacher resource covers all the basics in learning handwriting using the Letter-join Handwriting Scheme. It explains:
• how your school uses Letter-join to achieve national expectations in handwriting
• your school’s chosen handwriting style
• how to log in to Letter-join at home
• how to use Letter-join at home and support children’s learning
The PowerPoint slides are editable enabling teachers to add their school details, logos and chosen handwriting styles. Each slide comes with teacher’s notes and useful suggestions on how to deliver the presentation.
Also included is a page of supplementary notes as guidance for teachers when showing parents how to make the most of the Letter-join at home when logged into a Pupil Account.
The PowerPoint presentation and Guidance Notes can be downloaded by logging in to a Letter-join Classroom Account, clicking the ‘Info’ button and selecting ‘Instruction Guides’ where you will find links to the Handwriting Workshop resources.
