Handwriting
Develop the building blocks of handwriting
using a phonics-aligned approach
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Oxford Handwriting
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Explicit handwriting instruction builds confident readers and writers.
Handwriting is one of the fundamental building blocks of communication and literacy skills development. The ability to handwrite effectively with automaticity and fluency supports students to remember, process, store and retrieve information.
Fluency in transcription skills, such as handwriting and keyboarding, enables students to focus their thinking on the composing aspects of writing. Thus, over a period of time, students move from learning to write to writing to learn.
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Explicitly model letter formation with the Digital Interactive Tool
For adopting schools, the Oxford Handwriting interactive on Oxford Owl allows teachers to explicitly model how to form letters, from print to cursive joins.
The F–2 interactive allows you to demonstrate each letter as it is introduced in the phonics order, which provides opportunities to align handwriting with early phonics and spelling instruction.
The 3–6 interactive shows cursive letters, then examples of joined cursive words, fluency joins and speed loops.
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"The visuals, the digital platform, the interaction with students is incredible. The students love it too."
Hear from Year 5 teacher Natalie, from Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Randwick in NSW on their successful implementation of Oxford Spelling, Grammar and Handwriting across their school.
Professional Development
On-demand webinar
This insightful webinar that delves into the key challenges classroom teachers face when teaching handwriting. The discussion covers crucial topics such as:
- the significance of explicit instruction
- the integration of handwriting with phonics learning, and
- the vital role of handwriting and keyboarding in the primary classroom.
A structured, developmental and consistent approach to teaching essential handwriting skills
Oxford Handwriting ensures that students acquire handwriting skills in a logical order, from simple to complex, with frequent opportunities to practise both new and previously learnt skills and concepts. Each series for NSW, QLD and Victoria uses their state specific font and is fully aligned to the curriculum.
Foundation/Year K
The scope and sequence is aligned to the Letters and Sounds phonics scope and sequence, ensuring opportunities to align handwriting and early phonics and spelling instruction.
Years 1–2
Letters are grouped by shape, and the letters are introduced within words and phrases that are decodable.
Years 3–6
The focus is on learning to write faster and more fluently with cursive script. Each book has a different theme to maintain interest and allow students to develop skills and build stamina when writing.
The Gradual Release of Responsibility
The gradual release of responsibility model used in Oxford Handwriting specifically emphasises a shift in responsibility from the teacher to the student as the teaching and learning process progresses. Students receive direct, explicit instruction in letter formation, as teachers model the letter as they succinctly describe stroke formation. Students are supported to name the letter or its sound as they form it and follow the "Track, trace, copy" approach.
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My Personal Dictionary Value Packs
The brand-new Oxford Handwriting and
My Personal Dictionary series are perfectly paired to support students in F–1 to grow their writing skills, vocabulary, phonemic awareness and fluency.
Both series feature the same bright and engaging illustrations.
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Planned and written by Dr Tessa Daffern, Oxford Spelling is a flexible whole school research-based spelling program that incorporates the latest spelling research into a flexible and practical classroom resource.
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