Developmental Handwriting Series, Book 1: Early Years Alphabet (DHS1)

DHS1: Developmental Handwriting Series, Book 1. Early Years Alphabet:

A child’s very first handwriting book.  Everything you need to know about learning good handwriting from the beginning.  Photocopiable handwriting sheets teach young children how to form the letters of the alphabet correctly emphasising the correct start point, direction of movement, exit point and relation to the line. 

Teaches in a progressive way starting with the greatest support and moving through stages of reduced support towards independent writing of the letter.  Suitable for any age group to develop handwriting but particularly useful in Early Years and Foundation stage.

Details:

As part of a good synthetic phonics programme young children will be learning in a multi-sensory way, integrating the sound of the letter, the shape of the visual symbol, the language of formation and hand movements.

This book is written to support high quality synthetic phonics programmes such as Sound Discovery and Letters and Sounds.

The linking of the phoneme to the formation of each grapheme is an advantage of this Developmental Handwriting Series.

Each Sheet provides a progressive way of teaching letter formation starting with the greatest support and moving through stages of reduced support towards independent writing of the letter.

These sheets could be used for any age group where development of handwriting is required, but is particularly useful in the Early Years and Foundation Stage.

Good instruction is the key to developing an efficient and mature joined-up handwriting style.

This book provides an essential first step to train the hand in the structure and movement of basic letter shapes in readiness for joining.