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 third join.

Key Notes

• The letters all have a lead in and a lead out.
• The third join starts at the x-height line and dips below the x-height line and back up to join the next letter.
• When joining from a "w" or an "o", remember the small 'dip down' to aid joining.
• The pencil does not lift when forming the join.
• When using the third join you leave enough space to ensure the letters are not touching without leaving a big gap.

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
• x-height line: this is the line that x-height letters reach
• dip down: dropping under something

Common Mistakes To Avoid

• Children can struggle to get the gap size between the letters correct with this join.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

More Lessons In This Unit

• Reviewing sentences with all four joins, using lead-ins Study Guide
• The first join: in, ig, ed, eg, aw, ap, an, ar 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