Oxford Handwriting QLD - Sample pages with offer

Engaging full-colour illustrations

State-specifichandwriting conventions

abcdefghi jklmnop

Letters that change

Trace and copy.

These are the two letters that change!

Trace and copy these words. Remember to use the new f and z

freeze frozen freezing froze frosty freezes fresh frost frizz friend zip zest f z f z f z f z f z f z f z f z

Trace and copy the letters of the alphabet with all the entries and exits.

Practising entries and exits

Become a star like me! Copy these letters.

Pointed entries i j p u v w y Exits only a c d e h k l t Letters that change f z

Rounded entries m n r x

Write the letters of the alphabet that do not appear above. There should be five letters.

Write the letters you need to practise.

Upper-case and lower-case letters

from Handwriting for Queensland Year 3

Fill the gaps with the matching lower-case letter. Then copy all the letters underneath.

Bb C D E F G H I

J K L M N O P Q

R S T U V W X Y Z

Engagingfull-colourillustrations

All capital letters are head and body letters.

Body letters

Head and body letters

Body and tail letters

Head, body and tail letters

Can you write the lower-case letters in the correct head, body or tail group?

Assessment: entries and exits

This is an entry and exit alphabet. Circle the ten letters that do not have their correct entries and exits added.

Change these words from print to letters with entries and exits.

Add the necessary entries and exits to these letters.

Assess your entries and exits.

Tick your best letters. Teacher

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Diagonal joins: fluency patterns

Complete the incense smoke, then try the letter patterns shown below. While completing the patterns, try to keep the movements parallel. When you have finished, check your slope consistency by extending the incense sticks down to the pattern.

Check that your slope is parallel again by extending the incense sticks down.

Diagonal joins: fluency patterns

Diagonal joins

Practise these diagonal joins.

Example page from

Handwriting for Queensland Year 6

Australia culture discrimination Chinese ix ti he te no mi at ly hi ee ke me ay eo ur an in es er am tu us ip en ey ar

Diver’s pearls

Diagonal joins are the most common joins in cursive handwriting.

Now write these sentences with diagonal joins.

Today, the Chinese influence on culture and foods is part of our heritage. lived and worked together, partly due to discrimination. came to Australia by ship. When they arrived, they During the gold rush years, many Chinese gold-seekers

Diagonal joins

Practising fluency

Example page from Handwriting for Queensland Year 6

A gossary is an alphabetical collection or list of specialist terms and their meanings. The gossary beow

The meanings of the words in the box are listed below and on the next page.

•Write each word from the box on the line next to its meaning.

•Copy the words and the meanings.

It has two masts and two sails. : large boat used for pearling. the bood. It may cause death. experienced by divers, caused by too muh nitrogen in : painful condition sometimes relates to the history of the pearling industry. Copy these sentences.

tender, oyster, cyone, Mr Mikimoto, lugger, the bends, vulcanised

Example page from Handwriting for Queensland Year 6

: violent wind and rain storm.

: the person who helps and ooks after the diver while they are under water. the father of the cultured pearl industry.

: the man who is consdered

: strengthened material suh as canvas.

: irregular, rough s hellfish with two parts. It is where a pearl is formed.

In a glossary, the words being defined would appear in alphabetical order. Write the words and terms below in alphabetical order.

tender, oyster, cyone, Mr Mikimoto, the bends, lugger, vulcanised

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