Penpals for Handwriting is a complete handwriting scheme for 3-11 year olds.

Term 1 1 Presentation - sloped writing: sloped alphabet 2 Spelling - sloped writing: diagonal join to ascender 3 Spelling - sloped writing: diagonal join, no ascender 4 Spelling - sloped writing: diagonal join to an anticlockwise letter 5 Grammar - sloped writing: horizontal join to ascender 6 Spelling - sloped writing: horizontal join, no ascender 7 Spelling - sloped writing: horizontal join to an anticlockwise letter 8 Spelling - sloped writing: joining from r 9 Grammar and punctuation - sloped writing: joining from s 10 Assessment Term 2 11 Punctuation - proportion: joining from f to ascender 12 Spelling - size: joining from f, no ascender 13 Punctuation: different styles for different purposes 14 Grammar: size, proportion and spacing ff 15 Spelling: size, proportion and spacing rr 16 Spelling: size, proportion and spacing ss 17 Grammar: size, proportion and spacing qu 18 Decorative alphabets: different styles for different purposes 19 Grammar: different styles for different purposes 20 Assessment Term 3 21 Punctuation of parenthesis - proportion: joining p and b to ascenders 22 Grammar - adverbs for possibility: joining from p and b 23 Spelling strategies - syllabification: parallel ascenders and descenders pp, bb 24 Spelling: all double letters 25 Spelling - speed practice: suffixes -tial, -cial 26 Spelling - fluency practice: i before e 27 Spelling - speed and fluency: silent letters 28 Presentation - print letters: labelling 29 Assessment: spelling 30 Spelling: print capitals