Study Guides

Unit Summary

In this unit, pupils strengthen cursive skills by practising the four joins with attention to letter size and orientation. They write sentences in cursive, applying each join type, using capital letters and focusing on when to lift the pencil, as well as when to use lead-ins and lead-outs.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to correctly form the first join.

Key Notes

• Cursive handwriting involves joining letters together.
• The letters all have a lead in starting at the baseline.
• The first join goes from the baseline to the x-height line.
• The pencil does not lift when forming the join.
• The letter w lead out "finishes with a small dip down" to aid joining.

Vocabulary To Learn

• 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
• baseline: the line that most letters sit on
• x-height line: the line that x-height letters reach

Common Mistakes To Avoid

• Children will often want to take their pencil off to form the join.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

More Lessons In This Unit

• Reviewing sentences with all four joins, using lead-ins Study Guide
• The fourth join: wl, of, rt, ok Study Guide
• The second join: ck, ch, if, il, it Study Guide
• The third join: oe, we, os, rs Study Guide
• The third join: oo, wa, wo, on, om, ow Study Guide