A useful anchor chart to display in your classroom all year round! This poster reminds students of the correct posture and positioning in order to produce legible and correct handwriting. This resource includes a colour and black and white version and displays for right handed and left handed students for your convenience.
Form most lower-case and upper-case letters using learnt letter formations
Write words using unjoined lower-case and upper-case letters
Write words legibly and with growing fluency using unjoined upper-case and lower-case letters
Write words using joined letters that are clearly formed and consistent in size
Write words using clearly formed joined letters, with developing fluency and automaticity
Produce some lower case and upper case letters using learned letter formations
Write using unjoined lower case and upper case letters
Write legibly and with growing fluency using unjoined upper case and lower case letters
Write using joined letters that are clearly formed and consistent in size
Write using clearly-formed joined letters, and develop increased fluency and automaticity
Develop a handwriting style that is becoming legible, fluent and automatic
Develop a handwriting style that is legible, fluent and automatic and varies according to audience and purpose
Produces most lower case and upper case letters and uses digital technologies to construct texts
Composes texts using letters of consistent size and slope and uses digital technologies
Uses effective handwriting and publishes texts using digital technologies
Composes, edits and presents well-structured and coherent texts
Produces all lower-case and upper-case letters to create texts
Uses a legible, fluent and automatic handwriting style, and digital technology, including word-processing applications, when creating texts
Forms legible joined letters to develop handwriting fluency
Understand that sounds in English are represented by upper- and lower-case letters that can be written using learned letter formation patterns for each case
Understand how to use learned formation patterns to represent sounds and write words using combinations of unjoined upper- and lower-case letters
Write words and sentences legibly using upper- and lower-case letters that are applied with growing fluency using an appropriate pen/pencil grip and body position
Understand the conventions for writing words and sentences using joined letters that are clearly formed and consistent in size
Handwrite using clearly-formed joined letters, and develop increased fluency and automaticity
Develop a handwriting style that is becoming legible, fluent and automatic
Develop a handwriting style that is legible, fluent and that can vary depending on context