Starter quiz
- A capital letter is the ...
- lower case formation of a letter.
- upper case formation of a letter. ✓
- most important letter in the alphabet.
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- Select the capital letters.
- a
- F ✓
- c
- G ✓
- Z ✓
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- Select the lower case formations of letters in print.
- True or false? Some capital letters have descenders.
- True
- False ✓
- How many joins are there within cursive handwriting?
- 3
- 5
- 4 ✓
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- When writing in cursive, you lift your pencil ...
- after forming a capital letter. ✓
- to add the 'dot' for the letter i before you have finished the letter string.
- after forming a break letter. ✓
- to add the 'cross' for the letter t before you have finished the letter string.
- after you have completed the letter string. ✓
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- A sentence always begins with a capital letter and a proper noun always has a capital letter.
- After forming a capital letter, you need to lift your pencil to start the next part of the word.
- The letters all have a lead out, except for the capital letters.
- There is appropriate spacing between the letters.
- The pencil does not lift when forming the joins.
Common misconception
At first, children might find writing a full sentence in cursive overwhelming and forget the correct joins. This would result in the words being joined in a random manner.
Give them time to think about their sentence before starting. Model writing a sentence slowly and thinking out loud about which joins to use. This will encourage the children to do the same.
Keywords
Capital letter - the upper case formation of a letter
Proper noun - a naming word that does need capitalisation
Join - connecting together
Lead out - the stroke or line that guides us to smoothly finish a letter
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