Targeting Handwriting QLD Year 5 Student Book focuses on fluency and legibility.

Features include:

• includes practical techniques to help students check letter spacing, word spacing and slope
• features practice of common letter clusters and high frequency words
• includes support for the transition to 8mm lines

The Years 4–7 Targeting Handwriting Student Books have been designed to make learning cursive handwriting as easy as possible for students. New skills and techniques are introduced sequentially, so that students build on skills one by one and aren't called on to use skills that haven't been introduced yet.

Wherever possible, students copy words underneath models, so that left-handers aren't disadvantaged, and practice of numerals and punctuation is integrated into the writing activities. Assessment pages make assessment of specific handwriting skills easy, and the books also encourage and support student self-awareness. As students get older, they will encounter situations in which it is important to be able to write quickly and legibly.

Author: Susan Young