Letter Formation Cards - Ground, Grass & Sky
Laminate these Letter Formation Cards in your choice of font to help your students correctly form their letters.
These Letter Formation Cards feature a colour-coded background to highlight the base-line, and mid-lines through the representation of the ground, grass and sky for easy recognition and language direction from the teacher.
These cards can be used during rotations for a simple hands-on handwriting rotation.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to write words using unjoined lower case and upper case letters using functional pencil grip.
- We are learning to write known lower case and upper case letters using learned letter formations, functional posture and pencil grip.
- We are learning to write known lower case and upper case letters using learned letter formations, correct posture and pencil grip.
- We are learning to form all upper and lower-case letters correctly.
- We are learning to write upper and lower-case unjoined letters and sentences legibly using correct pencil grip and posture.
Curriculum alignment
AC9E1LY08
9
Write words using unjoined lower-case and upper-case letters
AC9EFLY08
9
Form most lower-case and upper-case letters using learnt letter formations
AC9E2LY08
9
Write words legibly and with growing fluency using unjoined upper-case and lower-case letters
ACELY1653
8.4
Produce some lower case and upper case letters using learned letter formations
ACELY1663
8.4
Write using unjoined lower case and upper case letters
ACELY1673
8.4
Write legibly and with growing fluency using unjoined upper case and lower case letters
ENe-3A
old
Produces most lower case and upper case letters and uses digital technologies to construct texts
EN1-3A
old
Composes texts using letters of consistent size and slope and uses digital technologies
ENE-HANDW-01
new
Produces all lower-case and upper-case letters to create texts
EN1-HANDW-01
new
Uses a legible, fluent and automatic handwriting style, and digital technology, including word-processing applications, when creating texts
VCELY162
Understand that sounds in English are represented by upper- and lower-case letters that can be written using learned letter formation patterns for each case
VCELY196
Understand how to use learned formation patterns to represent sounds and write words using combinations of unjoined upper- and lower-case letters
VCELY232
Write words and sentences legibly using upper- and lower-case letters that are applied with growing fluency using an appropriate pen/pencil grip and body position
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
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