Penpals for Handwriting is a complete handwriting scheme for 3-11 year olds. The Penpals for Handwriting Intervention Book 2 is designed to identify and support children who need additional help and practice with legibility and securing joins. Children will revisit key learning from each term, offering additional opportunities for consolidation, assessment and revision. The book includes a series of baseline assessments with clear guidance and signposting for teachers on how to progress.

Penpals for Handwriting is a complete handwriting scheme for 3-11 year olds. The Foundation 2 Penpals for Handwriting Teacher's Book consolidates the gross and fine motor skills developed at Foundation 1 and introduces the letter family approach. The colourful and appealing Long-Legged Giraffe, Curly Caterpillar, One-Armed Robot and Zig-Zag Monster introduce children to letter formation in a fun and exciting way. The Teacher's Book includes suggestions for using the Foundation 2 Penpals for Handwriting Interactive resource, along with full differentiated planning for whole-class sessions for Foundation 1 and 2 children. In addition, a scope and sequence chart, photocopy masters and writing mats for left- and right-handers are included.

Penpals for Handwriting is a complete handwriting scheme for 3-11 year olds. The Penpals for Handwriting Intervention Book 1 is designed to identify and support children who need additional help and practice with forming letters and starting to join. Children will revisit key learning from each term, offering additional opportunities for consolidation, assessment and revision. The book includes a series of baseline assessments with clear guidance and signposting for teachers on how to progress.

Elliot lives in America, and Kailash lives in India. They are pen pals. By exchanging letters and pictures, they learn that they both love to climb trees, have pets, and go to school. Their worlds might look different, but they are actually similar. Same, same. But different! Through an inviting point-of-view and colorful, vivid illustrations, this story shows how two boys living oceans apart can be the best of friends.

For ten years and in two classic books, Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell have described how to analyze the characteristics of texts and select just-right books to use for guided reading instruction. Now, for the first time, all of their thinking and research has been updated and brought together into Leveled Books, K-8 to form the ultimate guide to choosing and using books from kindergarten through middle school. Fountas and Pinnell take you through every aspect of leveled books, describing how to select and use them for different purposes in your literacy program and offering prototype descriptions of fiction and nonfiction books at each level. They share advice on: the role of leveled books in reading instruction, analyzing the characteristics of fiction and nonfiction texts, using benchmark books to assess instructional levels for guided reading, selecting books for both guided and independent reading, organizing high-quality classroom libraries, acquiring books and writing proposals to fund classroom-library purchases, creating a school book room. In addition, Fountas and Pinnell explain the leveling process in detail so that you can tentatively level any appropriate book that you want to use in your instruction. Best of all, Leveled Books, K-8 is one half of a new duo of resources that will change how you look at leveled books. Its companion-www.FountasandPinnellLeveledBooks.com-is a searchable and frequently updated website that includes more than 18,000 titles. With Leveled Books, K-8 you'll know how and why to choose books for your readers, and with www.FountasandPinnellLeveledBooks.com, you'll have the ideal tool at your fingertips for finding appropriate books for guided reading. Book jacket.

Penpals for Handwriting is a complete handwriting scheme for 3-11 year olds. The Penpals for Handwriting Intervention Book 3 is designed to identify and support children who need additional help and practice with increasing the speed and fluency of their writing. Children will revisit key learning from each term, offering additional opportunities for consolidation, assessment and revision. The book includes a series of baseline assessments with clear guidance and signposting for teachers on how to progress.

Penpals for Handwriting is a complete handwriting scheme for 3-11 year olds. The Year 2 Teacher's Book provides best-practice guidance on introducing the four types of letter join and supports the use of the Year 2 Penpals for Handwriting Interactive activities. At this stage, children start using some of the diagonal and horizontal joins. They are taught and then practise joins within digraphs and trigraphs. They begin to join through a word in stages and also learn about the break letters. They practise spacing between words. There is an emphasis on correct sizing of lowercase letters, capital letters and digits.

Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI) is a powerful early intervention system that can change the path of a student's journey to literacy. The LLI Orange System is specifically targeted at Foundation/Kindergaten students. Please note the program guide is not suitable for educators who have not yet purchased an LLI Orange System. This component is only available separately so that schools with the LLI Orange System can purchase additional copies of the program guide if they require. Find out more about the Fountas & Pinnell LLI System at www.pearson.com.au/primary/LLI

From the Cover: After 12 years, 4 months and 1 and 1/2 weeks of marriage, his wife packs up and leaves with their daughter. So he writes an Indie novel. And it becomes a bestseller. Well, sort of. His fame brings him the lifestyle of a rockstar, and he has the fan mail (i.e. female undergarments, probably clean) to prove it. But seeing his fame, his wife suddenly believes in marriage counseling. Their homework: to create something beautiful for each other. So he writes Our Story, his literary secret-weapon that will win his wife back. But in the process he discovers that true love is more than just ticking the right boxes on a checklist. It starts with... well... }i{ . Note: the f-word is used 231 times in various formats throughout this story. Read with caution.