Nelson Family - The completely integrated approach to teaching

The Developing Skills Books provide full coverage of the technical aspects of writing including letter formation, basic joins, printing, speedwriting and slope, as well as links with phonics and spelling.

• Three levels of differentiation provide structured progression through the course.
• Each unit of work has a clear focus followed by practice activities of increasing difficulty.

• Extension activities contextualise the handwriting skill into sentence or text level work.

The Teacher’s Book contains full lesson plans and helpful advice on how to develop and assess handwriting skills.

• Fully supports all the components of the Nelson Handwriting course and provides links with Nelson Spelling and Nelson English.

• Outlines the skills to be taught and provides assessment point for each unit.

Each interactive CD-ROM features an exciting range of multi-media tools including action rhymes and warm-up activity videos, copy and trace practice, voice-overs and animations to help you deliver engaging handwriting lessons.

• Pupils can first watch the letter formation and then copy and trace the letters on the whiteboard.
• Animations are accompanied by phonic letter sounds and audio patter in the lower levels.
• Reinforce correct movements of letter formations and joins with animated demonstrations and voiceovers.

• The Font CD-ROM allows you to create tailor-made resources or convert existing Word files into any of the Nelson Handwriting Font types.
• The Font CD-ROM includes a free Teacher’s Guide that provides support on using Electronic Font as well as creative ideas on using it in a spelling and phonics context.

The workbooks for Reception/P1 and Y1/P2 provide a structured introduction to letter formation with exercises designed to help children develop their hand-eye co-ordination and fine motor skills.

Designed to be used alongside the Pupil Books, the Resources and Assessment Books contain worksheets that provide additional support and extension activities for each unit.

• Focus Resource worksheets provide further practice to consolidate and reinforce the basic teaching point.
• Extension Resource worksheets linked to each unit provide more demanding activities to help stretch your higher achievers.

• Assessment worksheets assess and record the level of each child’s handwriting.