Handwriting sheets year 2: Handwriting in Year 2 (age 6–7)
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Summer Handwriting
While we are learning from home we are uploading the spellings onto our spelling page and we are linking our handwriting to our spelling to help make learning those words even easier. Have a look each week to see the handwriting sheets to match your spellings, we’ve also added some handwriting lines along with our High Frequency Word and Common Exception Word Mats; see if you can put the words into a sentence of your own.
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Handwriting paper-Large lines.pdf
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High Frequency Word Mats.pdf
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Year 3 & Year 4 Common Exception Words.pdf
Week One Handwriting- W/C 20th April
Words ending in -ary
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Print Handwriting Practice Sheet.pdf
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Precursive Handwriting Practice Sheet.pdf
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Cursive Handwriting Practice Sheet.pdf
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Continuous Cursive Handwriting Practice Sheet.pdf
Week Two Handwriting- W/C 28th April
Words with short /u/ sound spelt with an ‘o’
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Print Handwriting Practice Sheet.
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Precursive Handwriting Practice Sheet.pdf
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Cursive Handwriting Practice Sheet.pdf
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Continuous Cursive Handwriting Practice Sheet.pdf
pdfWeek Three Handwriting- W/C 4th May
Words with short /u/ sound spelt with an ‘ou’
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Print Handwriting Practice Sheet.pdf
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Precursive Handwriting Practice Sheet.pdf
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Cursive Handwriting Practice Sheet.pdf
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Continuous Cursive Handwriting Practice Sheet.
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pdfWeek 4- W/C 11th May
Common word families- ‘instruct’ & ‘uni’
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Print Handwriting Practice Sheet.pdf
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Precursive Handwriting Practice Sheet.pdf
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Cursive Handwriting Practice Sheet.pdf
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Continuous Cursive Handwriting Practice Sheet.pdf
Week 5- W/C 18th May
Common word families- ‘scop’ & ‘spec’
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Print Handwriting Practice Sheet.pdf
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Precursive Handwriting Practice Sheet.
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Cursive Handwriting Practice Sheet.pdf
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Continuous Cursive Handwriting Practice Sheet.pdf
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Bosbury Primary School — Spring Term Spelling and Handwriting Sheets
All spelling sheets for the the Spring Term 2021, sorted by year group can be found by clicking on the links below. These sheets will allow children to practise the spellings they would have received in school over this half term at home. The sheets also double up as handwriting practice — Year 1 and 2 can practise forming their pre-cursive lettering, while Years 3-6 can practise that lovely joined-up continuous cursive handwriting!
As an extension, how about turning the sheets over and writing your own imaginative sentences containing each spelling to aid comprehension on the back? For instance, for the words listed to the right just above:
‘The school community were determined to stay positive during the lockdown.
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‘The main purpose of Tom’s existence was to chase Jerry.’
‘As we had studied fractions before half term, today’s work seemed quite familiar.’
‘The reporter continued to harass the celebrity.’
‘The police needed to confirm the identity of the suspect.’
Give it a go — use a dictionary if you are unsure of the meanings of any of the words. Don’t forget those capital letters and full stops, and remember that your sentences need to make sense!
Don’t forget also that ALL spellings for each Year group for the 2020/21 academic year can also be found HERE.
SPRING TERM 2
YEAR 1
WEEK 1 (22.02.21) — words containing the letter ‘k’
WEEK 2 (01.03.21) — ‘a-e’ and ‘e-e’ split digraphs
WEEK 3 (08.03.
21) — ‘i-e’ and ‘o-e’ split digraphs
WEEK 4 (15.03.21) — ‘u-e’ split digraph
WEEK 5 (22.03.21) — ‘oo’ vowel digraph
WEEK 6 (29.03.21) — ‘ue’ and ‘ew’ digraphs
YEAR 2
WEEK 1 (22.02.21) — common exception words
WEEK 2 (01.03.21) — ‘-ey’ endings
WEEK 3 (08.03.21) — ‘w special’, ‘qu’ and ‘squ’ changing [a] sound to [o]
WEEK 4 (15.03.21) — ‘wor-‘ and ‘war-‘ trigraphs
WEEK 5 (22.03.21) — ‘-sion’ and ‘-sure’ endings
WEEK 6 (29.03.21) — ‘ea’ vowel digraph with split digraph mixture
YEAR 3
WEEK 1 (22.02.21) — homophones
WEEK 2 (01.03.21) — more homophones!
WEEK 3 (08.03.21) — ‘bi-‘ and ‘re-‘ prefixes
WEEK 4 (15.
03.21) — ‘-gue’ and ‘-que’ trigraphs
WEEK 5 (22.03.21) — ‘ch’ digraph making [sh] sound
WEEK 6 (29.03.21) — common exception word practice
YEAR 4
WEEK 1 (22.02.21) — ‘sc’ digraph making [s] sound
WEEK 2 (01.03.21) — ‘ce’ digraph making [s] sound
WEEK 3 (08.03.21) — ‘ci’ digraph with different sounds made by [i]
WEEK 4 (15.03.21) — ‘ph’ digraph with words made from ‘real’ root word
WEEK 5 (22.03.21) — more root words with their extensions
WEEK 6 (29.03.21) — common exception word practice
YEAR 5
WEEK 1 (22.02.21) — words containing ‘or’ digraph
WEEK 2 (01.03.21) — words containing ‘au’ vowel digraph
WEEK 3 (08.
03.21) — ‘-ate’ suffix
WEEK 4 (15.03.21) — ‘-ise’ suffix
WEEK 5 (22.03.21) — ‘-ify’ suffix
WEEK 6 (29.03.21) — ‘-en’ suffix
YEAR 6
WEEK 1 (22.02.21) — ‘-cial’ suffix
WEEK 2 (01.03.21) — ‘-tial’ suffix
WEEK 3 (08.03.21) — common exception word practice
WEEK 4 (15.03.21) — words beginning with ‘acc-‘
WEEK 5 (22.03.21) — words containing ‘sign’
WEEK 6 (29.03.21) — more common exception word practice
SPRING TERM 1
YEAR 1
WEEK 1 (11.01.21) — ‘-ight’ endings
WEEK 2 (18.11.20) — ‘ar’ grapheme
WEEK 3 (25.11.20) — ‘er’ grapheme
WEEK 4 (01.
02.20) — ‘ir’ grapheme
WEEK 5 (08.02.20) — ‘er’ and ‘est’ endings
WEEK 6 (15.02.20) — days of the week and common exception practice
YEAR 2
WEEK 1 (11.01.21) — ‘-ied’, ‘-ier’ and ‘-iest’ endings
WEEK 2 (18.11.20) — ‘-ying’ and ‘-iing’ endings
WEEK 3 (25.11.20) — ‘-ing’, ‘-iny’, ‘-er’, ‘-ed’ and ‘-est’ endings
WEEK 4 (01.02.20) — double consonant with above endings
WEEK 5 (08.02.20) — ‘-all’ and ‘-alk’ endings
WEEK 6 (15.02.20) — ‘-ast’, ‘-ant’, ‘-ass’ and ‘-ath’ endings
YEAR 3
WEEK 1 (11.01.21) — ‘y’ as part-time vowel making [i] sound
WEEK 2 (18.11.20) — ‘-ed’ and ‘-ing’ endings
WEEK 3 (25.11.20) — double consonant with above endings
WEEK 4 (01.
02.20) — ‘mis-‘ prefix
WEEK 5 (08.02.20) — ‘did-‘ prefix
WEEK 6 (15.02.20) — ‘ch’ grapheme making [k] sound
YEAR 4
WEEK 1 (11.01.21) — homophones
WEEK 2 (18.11.20) — more homophones
WEEK 3 (25.11.20) — ‘-ation’ endings
WEEK 4 (01.02.20) — more ‘-ation’ endings
WEEK 5 (08.02.20) — ‘sub-‘ prefix
WEEK 6 (15.02.20) — plural possessives
YEAR 5
WEEK 1 (11.01.21) — ‘-ity’ endings
WEEK 2 (18.11.20) — ‘-ness’ endings
WEEK 3 (25.11.20) — ‘-ship’ endings
WEEK 4 (01.02.20) — homophones
WEEK 5 (08.02.20) — more homophones
WEEK 6 (15.02.20) — even more homophones!
YEAR 6
WEEK 1 (11.
01.21) — ‘refer-‘, ‘prefer-‘ and ‘trans-‘ prefixes
WEEK 2 (18.11.20) — ‘ie’ grapheme making [ee] sound
WEEK 3 (25.11.20) — ‘ei’ grapheme making [ee] sound
WEEK 4 (01.02.20) — words containing ‘mit’ grapheme
WEEK 5 (08.02.20) — ‘inter-‘ prefix
WEEK 6 (15.02.20) — common exception word practice
10 games that will help to correct a child’s handwriting
Handwriting is closely related to character traits and can tell a lot about a person. That is why moms and dads are so worried when they see illegible scribbles, corrections, mistakes and blots in school notebooks. Expert «Oh!» psychologist Svetlana Pyatnitskaya explains what beauty and accuracy in writing depend on, and also offers to play games that will help improve a child’s handwriting.
Svetlana Pyatnitskaya, preschool teacher, child and perinatal psychologist, author of educational programs for preschool children
What does «bad handwriting» mean to you? What do you mean by this concept? Is it when a child writes not beautifully enough, carelessly or with his left hand, skips, replaces or rearranges letters, moves off the line? But the formation of graphic skills is influenced not only by the student’s perseverance and ability to concentrate, but also by external factors!
Attitude of adults to the difficulties of the child
It is very important how adults treat the problems of a schoolchild: parents, educators, teachers.
In order for the attitude to be adequate and correct, one must understand the causes of difficulties and know how to help the child. Only then will work on mistakes be effective and bring pleasure to all parties of the process.
The level of development of cognitive processes
We are talking about the perception of the surrounding world, thinking, memory, attention, speech and its maturity. In order to understand at what level all these processes are, you can go to an appointment with a child psychologist at the preschool institution that you attend or talk with a school psychologist who tests the child before entering an educational institution. After diagnosing, it will tell you what games you can play in order to increase the level of development of a particular process.
The emotional background that accompanies the child’s failures in writing
One of the most important factors is the emotional background. If this is depriving a child of the joys of joint activities as a punishment for writing poorly, calling names and accusations of «stupidity, worthlessness and hopelessness of the situation», questions: «What did you get?», this only exaggerates.
The individual characteristics of the child
And this factor must also be taken into account. Someone needs more time to complete the task, and someone needs a competent distribution of the load during the day, because if the child is tired of circles and sections, then there will definitely not be enough strength for neat and beautiful writing of letters. Also, it is important to create certain and timely conditions for the organization of teaching writing.
Games for the development of attention and imagination
At 6-7 years old, a child is able to memorize 10 items. For a game like «Guess what’s gone?». This game for is the development of memory and attention. You can use small toys/candy wrappers/lotto pictures in it. Put pictures in front of the child, let him name them. Then say, “Look at the pictures and memorize them. Now you close your eyes, I will remove them, and you will say which picture is gone.
«Make a picture out of parts.
» This type of game develops perception and thinking. It is necessary to cut pictures of objects or creatures of the surrounding world familiar to the child into 5-7 parts, in one of the parts you offer to guess who and what it is, and offer to collect a complete image.
“What does it look like?” Imagination game. Draw several circles of different sizes on a piece of paper. Invite the child to draw some elements for each circle to get an object that everyone knows. For example, ball, wall clock, plate, mirror, ring, hoop, etc.
Riddles. Ask your child riddles-descriptions that highlight the characteristic features of objects. For example: green, crispy, pimply. What is this? — «cucumber» Yellow, bright, round … sun. «And now you tell me!» you ask.
«Form a new word.» Glass vase — glass vase, paper boat — paper boat, iron bucket — iron bucket.
Games for developing graphic skills
«Shade using strokes of a certain slope.
» Choose pictures from the series: «It’s raining from a cloud», «Let’s feed the horse with grass», «Draw strings for balls, cuttings for leaves, stems for flowers, sticks for lollipops, rays for the sun.» All straight lines when writing should be straight and parallel.
Trace and Draw. Now there are many different patterns that can be selected in accordance with the interests of the child. For example, shading and tracing vehicles, dinosaurs, ponies.
«Repeat symmetrically.» In such pictures, on the left there is a part of a butterfly, a pyramid, a clown and other symmetrical images, on the right is a place where the child must complete the missing part. An easier version of this game is “Trace and draw the same one next to it”.
Graphic dictation. In graphic dictation, the student must draw with a pencil on a sheet of paper in a cell in accordance with the task given by an adult. Animal figures or letters can serve as objects for graphic dictations.
With their help, we train the ability to perceive information by ear, orientation in space.
Labyrinths. «Draw a dotted line from left to right», «The car drives along a wide path, the path gradually narrows, becomes narrow», «Help the ant to get into its anthill.» First, the child draws dotted lines, then solid lines, without lifting his hand and gradually moving it from left to right. This allows you to learn how to freely move your hand along the line.
Helpful Hints
Construct letters from improvised and natural materials: counting sticks, pebbles, paper clips, beads, fruit slices, so the child can identify the patterns of writing different letters, similarities and differences in elements. Suggest compiling a «Fruit and Berry Alphabet» — A from orange slices, B — from bananas, C — grapes.
Find and cut out different fonts for writing one letter from magazines, stick it on the sheet on the left, and let the child copy the letters written in different fonts on the right.
You must have noticed that at the age of 5-6, a child has a need to sign all his drawings. He writes his name and surname in block letters, begins to write letters or fairy tales, stories. Maintain this desire. Let him write short words in block letters: poppy, varnish, whale, cat, mouth, mom, dad.
Read other articles by Svetlana Pyatnitskaya:
7 fun street games for this summer
Why you shouldn’t compare your child with others
These 5 games will make your child kinder and more caring
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How to correct a child’s handwriting
06/13/2021
The child diligently draws letters, but it still turns out “like a chicken paw”? A familiar picture for most parents. What to do? Indeed, from numerous rewritings it only gets worse — the baby gets tired, gets confused, and in the notebook, in addition to scribbles, there is also “daub”!
Content:
- Such a common problem
- How to help a child?
- What does handwriting depend on?
- Development of graphic skills and writing speed
- Three conditions for beautiful handwriting
- Handwriting exercises
- Finger charger
Such a common problem
Illegible handwriting can often lead to school failure and, as a result, a loss of motivation to learn.
A child with poor handwriting writes more slowly than classmates, his hand gets tired faster. He does not have time to write down information for the teacher, gets lost in dictations and therefore writes incorrectly, cannot complete all tasks on written tests and again receives low marks. In addition, he is constantly reproached for scribbles. Not surprisingly, this can knock even a capable child down. And this is not always a symptom of dysgraphia — everything is fixable.
How to help a child?
The most important thing is to calm down and understand that it is very difficult for the baby now. It’s like if you yourself took a pen in your non-working hand (left for right-handed people and vice versa) and wrote as many letters as your first grader has to write! Do not force the child to write until «until it turns out beautifully», but switch his attention to interesting games.
And a few more non-obvious tips. For notebooks, buy simple plastic covers: they do not slip on the surface of the table or desk.
The beauty of handwriting also depends on the model of the chosen pen. For younger students, very long or very short models, as well as wide ribbed ones, are not suitable. The ideal length of the writing instrument is about 15 cm, and the ink in the core should write easily and not smudge the paper.
What determines handwriting?
Correct posture when writing is very important. The child should sit exclusively with a straight back and shoulders. He should lean with his back on the back of the chair, and place his feet on the floor or on the footboard, stand, straight, parallel to each other. The «correct» table top:
- is located slightly below the height of the student’s chest;
- is at least 30 cm away from the eyes;
- is separated from the body (stomach) at a distance of at least a palm.
The workbook should lie on the table at an angle of 10-15°, this makes it easier to move the hand along the line in the direction from left to right.
For a right-hander, it is located, leaning to the right, for a left-hander — to the left. As the sheet fills up, the notebook should be slightly pushed up, and directly while writing it should be supported with a non-working hand: at the beginning of work from below, and after filling the page more than half — from above. The elbow of the writing hand should not hang from the table or desk, the second hand should also lie on the table, creating a comfortable support.
Correct handle position is equally important. If the child immediately learns to hold it or a pencil correctly, his hand will not get tired and experience tension. To properly hold the writing instrument, you need to bend your thumb and forefinger, then move your thumb slightly to the side parallel to the table top, while it should not be pressed against the pencil by the phalanx. Make sure the tip of the pencil is pointing straight at your shoulder. The wrist should be on the table.
Formation of graphic skills and writing speed
In order to write beautifully and quickly, a child already in elementary school must be able to correctly select a letter to the dictated sound, write without interruption.
This is a graphic skill that not only makes handwriting more enjoyable, but also increases the speed of writing.
The ideal writing speed is considered to be 4-6 words per minute for students in the first and second grades, 12 words in the same period of time for older children in the third and fourth grades.
Three conditions for beautiful handwriting
There are three conditions that allow us to say that handwriting is beautiful: with tails ”like c, f and others, and capital letters should be 2 times higher than lowercase letters;
In addition, you need to correctly make the connection between the letters. It can be «upper» or «lower» and both are considered valid and valid.
Exercises to improve handwriting
Graphic exercises help to develop endurance to stress when writing, correct the handwriting of the baby, allowing you to master the accuracy of movements.
These workouts are good because the baby perceives them with interest and begins to write more evenly and faster without much effort on his part. Regular classes with a child, at least three times a week, can improve handwriting after a month.
For training, you will need simple and colored pencils (felt-tip pens, gel pens) and an album sheet. The most effective exercise is to draw straight, even lines along the wide side of the sheet. When performing exercises, you need to monitor your hand and the correct position of the pencil in it. The exercise is repeated until a satisfactory result is obtained: all lines must be even. To make it more fun for a child to draw the same straight lines, you can do this with pencils of different colors. By the way, it will be easier for the baby to draw the first lines if you put auxiliary points on the sheet. When the lines become even, gradually complicate the exercise, for example, do hatching or draw waves and zigzags.
