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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.