Kinetic Letters Handwriting Programme
Our school handwriting scheme is called Kinetic Letters, the children learn how to form letters based on how they have been grouped into letter families.
Each letter family is introduced to the children through a story about two monkeys called Bounce and Skip.
Bounce is a brave monkey and helps write the tall letters whilst skip is a scared monkey and helps write the other letters.
Kinetic Letters® Uses four main threads of:
- Making bodies stronger
- Holding the pencil
- Learning the letters
- Flow and fluency
It enables children to develop legible handwriting that is produced quickly and automatically. With the development of automaticity, handwriting becomes a valuable tool and not a hindrance to learning.
The Kinetic Letters® font covers all the letters in the alphabet and is based on a set of rules that have been made a simple as possible to enable fast learning.
The order in which letters are taught recognises the cognitive development of children. The programme can be used with any reading programme including phonics. Initially reading and writing are taught separately (as recommended by phonics programmes); later on, reading and writing are combined.
Strength: Writing is a fine finger operation; children must have core body and arm strength to be able to control their fingers precisely.
Pencil hold: The pencil grip must be comfortable to allow writing for long periods. Pencils with a triangular cross-section assist in developing the correct hold.
Letter formation: The movements to form the letters begin with whole body movements and progress through writing in sand trays to writing on whiteboards and finally writing on paper.
In Kinetic Letters®, all the letters and numbers are formed by one of two monkeys, a brave one (Bounce) who goes to the top branch of the tree, and a scared one (Skip) who goes to the lower branch.
Flow and fluency: Letter movements are minimised to help a fast-writing style to develop. There are no lead-in strokes.
For More Information, Click on the Links Below:
Kinetic letter Family Stories.
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