Practising handwriting in journalistic writing | English

Starter quiz

True or false? Cursive handwriting involves forming the letters separately within a letter string.
- True
- False ✓
Match the cursive letter join with the correct description.
- first join
  
  ⇔
  
  from the baseline to the x-height line ✓
- second join
  
  ⇔
  
  from the baseline towards the ascender line ✓
- third join
  
  ⇔
  
  from the x-height line to the x-height line ✓
- fourth join
  
  ⇔
  
  from the x-height line towards the ascender line ✓
Select the letter strings which would use the first cursive join in their formation.
- ac ✓
- ab
- er ✓
- gy ✓
- bl
Select the letter strings which would use the second cursive join in their formation.
- rl
- al ✓
- ck ✓
- ca
- ol
Select the letter strings which would use the third cursive join in their formation.
- en
- om ✓
- ew
- ul
- wo ✓
Select the letter strings which would use the fourth cursive join in their formation.
- hl
- od
- wl ✓
- ul
- rt ✓

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Key learning points

Journalistic reports use formal language, are usually written in the third person and will usually include quotes.
The title of a journalistic report is called the headline. Most words in the headline will start with a capital letter.
Capital letters are used after inverted commas in speech first and speech second sentences.
Capital letters are formed separately, they do not join to other letters.
The letter formation, spacing and cursive joins need to be correct for the writing to be legible.

Common misconception

Children can get confused when writing the headline and start to join the capital letters to the lower case letters.

Model to the children that you think about the headline before writing it. Which words will have capital letters? When forming the capital letter, exaggerate the action of lifting your pencil after the formation to remind the children.

Keywords

Journalistic report - a non-fiction text that provides information about an event
Headline - attention-grabbing statement at the beginning of an article
Capital letter - the uppercase formation of a letter
Inverted commas - a pair of punctuation marks that signal direct speech to the reader
Legible - text is clear and easy to read and understand