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Posture, Paper Position and Pencil Grip
ISBN 978 1 74135 292 4 Writing Time 6 New South Wales 65
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Contents
Posture Keep your back straight, head up and lean forward slightly.
Place your feet fl at on the fl oor.
Rest your non-writing arm on the desk.
Pencil Grip Hold your pencil using your thumb, index fi nger and middle fi nger.
Make sure your pencil grip is not too tight.
Left-handed Right-handed
Paper Position Place your page directly in front of you.
Left-handed students, slightly rotate your paper clockwise.
Right-handed students, slightly rotate your paper anticlockwise.
Left-handed Right-handed
Writing Time Adventure Passport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Contribution of Migrants 2
Diagonal Joins to Neckline Entries; Slope; Spacing; Printing; Posture, Paper Position and Pencil Grip
Inventions and Discoveries 6
Diagonal Joins to Ascenders; Print to Cursive;Copying Chunks; Printing
Friendly or Formal 10
Diagonal Joins to Drop-ins; Print to Cursive;Sustained Speed and Accuracy
Timetables 14
Horizontal Joins to Neckline Entries; Letter Size; Numerals
Fine Motor Workout 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Federation 18
Horizontal Joins to Ascenders; Print to Cursive;Copying from Afar
Electricity 22
Horizontal Joins to Drop-ins; Labelling;Copying Chunks; Letter Discrimination;Posture, Paper Position and Pencil Grip
Bias in Language 26
Horizontal Joins to e; Print to Cursive; Cursive to Print
Discounts 30
Horizontal Joins to and from f; Posture, Paper Position and Pencil Grip
Fine Motor Workout 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Migrant Biographies 34
Joining to s; Flourished Writing; Joining from b, è and s;Print to Cursive; Slope
Geological Changes 38
Speed Loops (from descenders); Print to Cursive; Sustained Speed and Accuracy; Printing; Letter Discrimination
Imagery 42
Speed Loops (to ascenders); Letter Size; Copying Chunks; Spacing
Editing 46
Speed loops (to and from f); Speed Loops (to and from ˆ); Sustained Speed and Accuracy
Fine Motor Workout 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Individual Style 50
Joining Capitals; Headings; Diary Writing;Decorative Writing; Signatures; Writing in Pen; Form Filling; Borders
Fine Motor Workout 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Assessment
Assessment 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58Assessment 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59Assessment 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60Assessment 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Student Assessment Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62Teacher Assessment Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63Activity Answers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64Posture, Paper Position and Pencil Grip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
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Writing Time 6 Contents
Writing Time 6 New South Wales
Inventions and DiscoveriesImagine life without cars, phones or medicine! Scientifi c research, inventions and discoveries have enhanced our quality of life.
Diagonal Joins to Ascenders: Copy these joins and words relating to inventions. Remember, extend the exit to the top of the ascender, then retrace.
Fine Motor Skills: Dr Karl is a scientist. Design a crazy lab coat for him. Fill it with test tubes, beakers and magnets or any other ‘sciencey’ items!
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tor Skills: Dr Karl is a scientist. crazy lab coat for him. Fill it tubes, beakers and or any other items!
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Print to Cursive: Find the most important facts in this passage and write them as dot points in your best cursive handwriting.
Fine Motor Skills: Penicillin is an antibiotic used to help treat bacterial infections. Look at its fascinating molecular structure. Draw and colour your own imaginary molecular structure or copy this one.
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Printing: Choose from the list below and match each inventor with their invention. Print neatly.
Copying Chunks: Copy this passage about the invention of the telephone.
1. Alexander Graham Bell2. Henry Ford3. Fiona Wood4. Louis Braille5. Stephanie Kwolek6. Alexander Fleming
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Build 3 more words from each of these base words. The fi rst one is done for you.
Fine Motor Skills: A Rube Goldberg machine performs a very simple task in a very complex fashion. Named after an American cartoonist, these inventions often include ropes and pulleys, chain reactions and quite a bit of silliness. Design your own Rube Goldberg machine below to crack and fry an egg.
Copy these words. Focus on the diagonal joins to neckline entries.
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a b c d e f g
h i j k l m n
o p q r s t u
v w x y z
Name:
Secret Message:
Rune CodeUsing the rune key, write your name. Then write a secret message for your friends to decipher.
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Fine Motor Workout 2
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