Reviewing proper nouns, using lead ins
I can correctly use capital letters and cursive handwriting when writing proper nouns.
Reviewing proper nouns, using lead ins
I can correctly use capital letters and cursive handwriting when writing proper nouns.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Proper nouns name specific people, places and things.
- After forming a capital letter, you need to lift your pencil to start the next part of the word with a lead in.
- Capital letters do not join to the next letter, they sit on their own.
- The remaining letters in the proper noun will be joined using a range of joins depending on the letters in the word.
- The last letter has a lead out.
Keywords
Capital letter - the upper case formation of a letter
Proper noun - a naming word that does need capitalisation
Join - connecting together
Lead in - the stroke or line that guides us into starting a letter
Lead out - the stroke or line that guides us to smoothly finish a letter
Common misconception
Once children start joining words they can forget the correct way to join the letters and just join them in a random manner.
Let them look at the word first and identify how the letters join, then practise and get them to self-assess their joins. Encourage them to identify any mistakes so they can learn from these.
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