Letter-join’s Handwriting Assessment Tracker has been designed in line with the 2025 Writing Framework and National Curriculum targets for handwriting and provides a complete scheme for assessing pupils’ progression in handwriting skills from Early Years to Year 6.
Children’s handwriting development can be monitored termly, annually or as-required throughout their school journey.
Letter-join’s tracker assesses key handwriting features such as letter formation, joining, speed and fluency and helps identify pupils requiring targeted intervention.
Progress can be tracked throughout each academic year, with dates recorded for each assessment and a notes section for further comments and next steps, until pupils are secure in each developmental area. The document can either be printed as a whole or the first section can be duplicated and updated electronically as individual pupil records (pages 1-4), reducing print time and costs.
The tracker is a useful resource for when children transition between classes and year groups, ensuring that receiving teachers have a clear understanding of each pupil’s handwriting ability.
Assessment pages are provided for each year group with guidance for teachers and handwriting tasks for children to complete. Pages should be duplicated for assessments that are carried out on a termly basis.
Letter-join’s Handwriting Assessment Tracker also provides photographs of handwriting examples modelling expected handwriting standards for each year group.
Download the Assessment Tracker from the Lesson Planners page, or by typing ‘tracker’ into the search bar (Letter-join School subscriptions only).
A great additional resource to support the teaching and learning of phonics phases using Letter-join’s printed font (Letter-join Print Plus), Letter-join’s fun worksheets are ideal for combining the teaching of handwriting with phonics to strengthen your pupils’ phase 2-5 phonics skills.
Each set of sentences and stories contain the relevant phonemes and graphemes to support each phonics phase. The graphemes related to each phase are highlighted, enabling children to practise reading and writing the sounds within the words. Select the ‘More resources’ tab at the bottom of each of the Phonics Phases pages for these resources.
Help prepare your learners for the Year 4 Multiplication Tables Check (MTC) in June.
Letter-join’s 12 x 12 Multiplication Square is a handy resource to support the teaching and learning of times tables facts.
This versatile, visual aid can be used as a prompt, memory activity or poster in the classroom.
Letter-join also has a set of times tables worksheets which are ideal for strengthening recall of times tables facts to 12 x 12 as well as improving number formation.
Each of these resources are available with an alternative version of the number 2.
Support your pupils with the physical demands of handwriting and establish fundamental pre-writing routines with this new, Letter-join Ready to Write Resources pack, offering teachers the following go-to references:
• an IWB presentation for your class
• a selection of classroom posters
• links to fun, interactive videos to boost fine and gross motor skills
Display
A complete set of key, handwriting resources at your fingertips, including an IWB presentation and classroom posters modelling:
• Posture
• Pencil grip
• Paper position
• Pencil pressure
Videos
A series of lively, new videos are included in Letter-join’s Ready to Write Resources pack to motivate your learners. Have fun with your class as they practise these animated activities to get them ready to start handwriting.
The engaging, ready to write routines modelled in the videos can be easily integrated into daily classroom practice.
Gross Motor Skills
A lively, seven-minute warm-up session encouraging children to copy large, whole-body movements.
A focused, five-minute selection of fun exercises designed to improve strength, dexterity and control in fingers and hands in readiness for handwriting.
Clear, step-by-step guidance for learning the tripod pencil grip method, accompanied by a memorable rhyme.
An extended ‘How to Hold a Pencil with warm-ups’ video combining selected gross and fine motor skills activities is also available.
To download the Ready to Write Resources pack here > as a PDF to explore the resources.
