This resource is designed to be used as a classroom display prompting students about how to grip a pencil correctly.
This poster has been created as both a colour and reproducible resource.
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
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
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
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
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