Key learning points

1. High frequency words are words that appear most frequently in written texts.
2. Letters in the high frequency words will be joined using a range of joins depending on the letters in the word.
3. You start at the correct starting point for the first letter.
4. There is appropriate spacing between the letters.
5. You don’t lift your pencil until the letter string is complete.

Common misconception

Keywords

• High frequency word - the words that appear most frequently in written texts

• Join - connecting together

• Lead out - the stroke or line that guides us to smoothly finish a letter

• Starting point - the starting point is the place where we begin to write a letter

• Letter string - a group of letters that are written together in a word