K–6
Develop the building blocks of handwriting with a phonics- aligned approach
Oxford Handwriting for New South Wales 3e is a comprehensive and engaging program designed to introduce and develop the fundamental skills of handwriting. Written for the New South Wales curriculum, the program develops the building blocks of handwriting, while providing tips on correct posture, grip models, joining techniques, and activities to help every student develop a fluent, automatic handwriting style using the New South Wales Foundation Style handwriting font.
Student Workbooks
The student workbooks are used to support independent letter formation and help students build speed and fluency. For years K–2, the words are fully decodable to support a phonics-aligned approach. Students learn letters in the order of the Letters and Sounds scope and sequence, so they can learn to write letters as they learn to read them. For years 3–6, each year level has an interesting and informative theme to engage the students as they learn cursive writing and improve speed and legibility.
The books include:
- Information on the 3Ps: posture, pencil grip and paper position
- Warm-up exercises, including tracing activities and hand stretches
- Check your progress and self-assessment checkpoints
Explicitly model letter formation with the front-of-class digital interactive tool
For adopting schools, the Oxford Handwriting for New South Wales interactives on Oxford Owl allows teachers to explicitly model how to form letters, from print to cursive joins.
The K–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.
Online Teacher Dashboards
For adopting schools, Oxford Handwriting for New South Wales gives teachers access to a comprehensive online teacher dashboard for each year. Along with the digital interactives for K–2 and 3–6, the dashboards include:
- scope and sequence
- curriculum alignment charts
- term planners
- lesson plans
- additional worksheets
- assessment exercise
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