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Mrs Proudley year 9 h.proudley@dovehouse.hants.sch.ukEnglishTo be completed with an adult as you will need help reading the activity. .

Handwriting Over the past few weeks during lockdown, we have practised various Literacy skills. It is also important to think about our handwriting. If our handwriting is tricky to read, people will struggle to read our wonderful sentences. It is important to have great handwriting that people can read.When we practise handwriting at school, we think about ground, grass and sky letters. This helps us to think about how tall each letter should be, if it sits on the line or if it goes below the line.

This word shows a grass letter, a sky letter and a ground letter. The sky letters go high into the blue sky. The grass letters sit on the line but stay in the green grass. The ground letters go deep below the line

into the brown ground.

Look at these letters with your adult. Do not worry too much if you need help to read the word, but tell your adult which letters are ground, grass or sky letters. For example, the word below has 2 sky letters, 1 grass letter and 1 ground letter.

Please feel free to email Mrs Proudley and share how you found this activity. You could take a picture of your work or ask a parent / carer to write about how you got on. We love to hear how you are progressing with your English tasks.

grass letters 1sky letters 2ground letters 1

Try this word and put a number next to the type of letters.grass letters________sky letters__________ground letters_________

grass letters________sky letters__________ground letters_________

grass letters________ sky letters__________ ground letters_________

grass letters________sky letters__________

ground letters_________

grass letters________sky letters__________ground letters_________

grass letters________sky letters__________ground letters_________

grass letters________sky letters__________ground letters_________

Look closely at these letters. Have a go at writing them neatly using the guidelines below. Remember to think how tall each letter should be. Write each one 5 times.

Copy out the red sentence in your neatest handwriting.

Six cats sat along the wall.

Pick up the grey ball.

When can Bill drive Fred to the beach?

I have worked very hard doing my online home learning.

Now that you have tried hard to practice your letters, let’s think about our grammar and punctuation. When we talk about grammar and punctuation, we mean…

Full stops Capital letters The words that we use

Listen carefully while an adult reads this text to you.

QuestionsYou may want to get a highlighter to help you with this activity. How many capital letters did you spot?_______How many full stops did you spot?___________How many times can you see the word ‘and’?__________

How many times did you see the word ‘hedgehog’?______How many full stops can you see?_______How many words can you find that begin with an s ?_____

How many capital letters can you see?______How many full stops can you see?__________How many words can you see that have ‘f’ in ?__________

Fantastic job! You have tried very hard to think about your handwriting, grammar and punctuation.