Writing 

Writing Top Tips

To support your child’s writing progress can you please encourage your child to do the following when ever they are writing at home.

• Sit at a table in the correct writing position.
• Use a tripod grip to hold their pencil and the non-writing hand to hold the piece of paper.
• Always use a clear and correctly sized capital letter to start a sentence.
• Clear finger spaces between words.
• A full stop to finish a sentence.
• Encourage your child to sound out unfamiliar words using their phonic knowledge. 
• Encourage them to spell Year 1 and 2 common exception words correctly and words using the spelling rules learnt for spellings.