Posture, Paper Position and Pencil Grip

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Posture Keep your back straight, head up and lean forward slightly.

Place your feet fl at on the fl oor.

Rest your non-writing arm on the desk.

Pencil Grip Hold your pencil using your thumb, index fi nger and middle fi nger.

Make sure your pencil grip is not too tight.

Left-handed Right-handed

Paper Position Place your page directly in front of you.

Left-handed students, slightly rotate your paper clockwise.

Right-handed students, slightly rotate your paper anticlockwise.

Left-handed Right-handed

Writing Time Adventure Passport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Contribution of Migrants 2

Diagonal Joins to Neckline Entries; Slope; Spacing; Printing; Posture, Paper Position and Pencil Grip

Inventions and Discoveries 6

Diagonal Joins to Ascenders; Print to Cursive;Copying Chunks; Printing

Friendly or Formal 10

Diagonal Joins to Drop-ins; Print to Cursive;Sustained Speed and Accuracy

Timetables 14

Horizontal Joins to Neckline Entries; Letter Size; Numerals

Fine Motor Workout 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Federation 18

Horizontal Joins to Ascenders; Print to Cursive;Copying from Afar

Electricity 22

Horizontal Joins to Drop-ins; Labelling;Copying Chunks; Letter Discrimination;Posture, Paper Position and Pencil Grip

Bias in Language 26

Horizontal Joins to e; Print to Cursive; Cursive to Print

Discounts 30

Horizontal Joins to and from f; Posture, Paper Position and Pencil Grip

Fine Motor Workout 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Migrant Biographies 34

Joining to s; Flourished Writing; Joining from b, è and s;Print to Cursive; Slope

Geological Changes 38

Speed Loops (from descenders); Print to Cursive; Sustained Speed and Accuracy; Printing; Letter Discrimination

Imagery 42

Speed Loops (to ascenders); Letter Size; Copying Chunks; Spacing

Editing 46

Speed loops (to and from f); Speed Loops (to and from ˆ); Sustained Speed and Accuracy

Fine Motor Workout 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Individual Style 50

Joining Capitals; Headings; Diary Writing;Decorative Writing; Signatures; Writing in Pen; Form Filling; Borders

Fine Motor Workout 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Assessment

Assessment 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58Assessment 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59Assessment 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60Assessment 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Student Assessment Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62Teacher Assessment Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63Activity Answers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64Posture, Paper Position and Pencil Grip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

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Writing Time 6 New South Wales

Inventions and DiscoveriesImagine life without cars, phones or medicine! Scientifi c research, inventions and discoveries have enhanced our quality of life.

Diagonal Joins to Ascenders: Copy these joins and words relating to inventions. Remember, extend the exit to the top of the ascender, then retrace.

Fine Motor Skills: Dr Karl is a scientist. Design a crazy lab coat for him. Fill it with test tubes, beakers and magnets or any other ‘sciencey’ items!

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tor Skills: Dr Karl is a scientist. crazy lab coat for him. Fill it tubes, beakers and or any other items!

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Print to Cursive: Find the most important facts in this passage and write them as dot points in your best cursive handwriting.

Fine Motor Skills: Penicillin is an antibiotic used to help treat bacterial infections. Look at its fascinating molecular structure. Draw and colour your own imaginary molecular structure or copy this one.

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Printing: Choose from the list below and match each inventor with their invention. Print neatly.

Copying Chunks: Copy this passage about the invention of the telephone.

1. Alexander Graham Bell2. Henry Ford3. Fiona Wood4. Louis Braille5. Stephanie Kwolek6. Alexander Fleming

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Build 3 more words from each of these base words. The fi rst one is done for you.

Fine Motor Skills: A Rube Goldberg machine performs a very simple task in a very complex fashion. Named after an American cartoonist, these inventions often include ropes and pulleys, chain reactions and quite a bit of silliness. Design your own Rube Goldberg machine below to crack and fry an egg.

Copy these words. Focus on the diagonal joins to neckline entries.

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Name:

Secret Message:

Rune CodeUsing the rune key, write your name. Then write a secret message for your friends to decipher.

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Fine Motor Workout 2