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Reviewing proper nouns, using lead ins

Handwriting review, using lead-ins

Unit Summary

In this unit, pupils review handwriting skills, focusing on formation, size, and orientation. They practise forming proper nouns, high frequency words, common exception words and full sentences. Pupils also focus on using even spacing between letters and using lead outs accurately.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to correctly use capital letters and cursive handwriting when writing proper nouns.

Key Notes

  • Proper nouns name specific people, places and things.
  • After forming a capital letter, you need to lift your pencil to start the next part of the word with a lead in.
  • Capital letters do not join to the next letter, they sit on their own.
  • The remaining letters in the proper noun will be joined using a range of joins depending on the letters in the word.
  • The last letter has a lead out.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • capital letter: the upper case formation of a letter
  • proper noun: a naming word that does need capitalisation
  • join: connecting together
  • lead in: the stroke or line that guides us into starting a letter
  • lead out: the stroke or line that guides us to smoothly finish a letter

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Once children start joining words they can forget the correct way to join the letters and just join them in a random manner.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain this English learning goal in two key points.

Proper nouns name specific people, places and things. After forming a capital letter, you need to lift your pencil to start the next part of the word with a lead in.

2. Define this language term and use it in a sentence. 'capital letter'

the upper case formation of a letter.

3. Correct this common English misunderstanding.

Mistake: Once children start joining words they can forget the correct way to join the letters and just join them in a random manner. Correction: Let them look at the word first and identify how the letters join, then practise and get them to self-assess their joins. Encourage them to identify any mistakes so they can learn from these.

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