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 Gross Motor Warm-Up
Wall Press-Ups

Stand with your body facing a wall.

Place the palms of your hands on the
wall with your arms the same
distance apart as your shoulders.

Use your arms to push off the wall as

though you are doing a wall press-up!

Can you do five wall press-ups?

Take a deep breath and have a rest!

 Fine Motor Warm-Up
Spin the Lid!

Collect a lid from your teacher.

Hold your lid in the palm of

your hand using your fingertips.

Keep your hand in an upward

position and use your fingers to
rotate the lid in a circle. How
quickly can you make your lid
rotate?

Swap over and try to spin the

lid using the fingers of your
other hand!
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Step 1 – Let’s Get Ready to Write!

Make a ‘g’ Trail!

Can you find a route through the
maze using only the letter ‘g’ or
words that begin with a ‘g’ sound ?

Can you find a route through a

different maze on the Make a ‘g’
Trail Activity Sheets?

Use a large dabber marker to

clearly mark your route.

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Step 2 – Forming Letter Families

We are going to learn

how to write the letter ‘g’.

Back To begin writing a g, you need a c,

Then go down and make a tail for a little monkey!
Step 2 – Forming Letter Families

Can you spot the ‘g’ in these words?

goat
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Step 2 – Forming Letter Families

Can you spot the ‘g’ in these words?

girl
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Step 2 – Forming Letter Families

Can you spot the ‘g’ in these words?

give
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Step 2 – Forming Letter Families

Can you spot the ‘g’ in these words?

glum
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Step 2 – Forming Letter Families

Can you spot the ‘g’ in these words?

goose
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Step 2 – Forming Letter Families

Can you spot the ‘g’ in these words?

bag
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Step 2 – Forming Letter Families

Can you spot the ‘g’ in these words?

swing
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Step 2 – Forming Letter Families

Can you spot the ‘g’ in these words?

light
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Step 2 – Forming Letter Families

Can you spot the ‘g’ in these words?

cage
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Step 2 – Forming Letter Families

Can you spot the ‘g’ in these words?

singing
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Step 2 – Forming Letter Families

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Back Why do you think this is?

Step 2 – Forming Letter Families

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Step 2 – Forming Letter Families
Let’s Look
Ready to Write
1. Place both feet flat on the floor.
2. Move your elbows so they’re
resting off the edge of the desk.
3. Move your bottom to the back of
the chair.
4. Lean your head and shoulders
slightly forwards.
5. Keep your knees bent at a 90°
angle.
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How to Grip a
Writing Tool
1. Nip - Choose the writing tool that
is best suited to the task. ‘Nip’ it
towards the end.
2. Flip - ‘Flip’ the writing tool
around so that it is resting on
your hand.
3. Grip - ‘Grip’ the writing tool.
Make sure it is pinched between
the ball of the thumb and the
forefinger, supported by the
middle finger with the other
fingers tucked away.
Check – Does your grip provide
stability and freedom of movement?
Step 2 – Forming Letter Families

If you write with your left hand… If you write with your right hand…

Paper Paper
tilted Try to keep tilted
your wrist
to the to the
straight and
right. left.
your hand
below the
writing line.
Your helper
Your helper
hand should
hand should
be placed on
be placed on
the right
the left side
side of the
of the paper.
paper.

Back Taken from the How to Position Your Paper Display Poster.
Step 2 – Forming Letter Families

Complete The Letter ‘g’ Activity Sheet.

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Step 2 – Forming Letter Families

Complete The Letter ‘g’ Extra Practice Activity Sheet.

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Step 3 – Positioning & Pre-Cursive

We are going to be learning

how to write the letter ‘g’.

Back Whoosh in, go round to the top,

Go down under the line, loop and stop.
Step 3 – Positioning & Pre-Cursive

With your finger, follow the

pencil as it writes the letter ‘g’.

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Step 3 – Positioning & Pre-Cursive

The letter ‘g’ is a descender (a long letter).

It needs to go below the baseline and touch the bottom line.

baseline bottom line

Look at how the tails or sticks of some other

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descenders also touch the bottom line.
Step 3 – Positioning & Pre-Cursive
Let’s Look
Ready to Write
1. Place both feet flat on the floor.
2. Move your elbows so they’re
resting off the edge of the desk.
3. Move your bottom to the back of
the chair.
4. Lean your head and shoulders
slightly forwards.
5. Keep your knees bent at a 90°
angle.
Back
How to Grip a
Writing Tool
1. Nip - Choose the writing tool that
is best suited to the task. ‘Nip’ it
towards the end.
2. Flip - ‘Flip’ the writing tool
around so that it is resting on
your hand.
3. Grip - ‘Grip’ the writing tool.
Make sure it is pinched between
the ball of the thumb and the
forefinger, supported by the
middle finger with the other
fingers tucked away.
Check – Does your grip provide
stability and freedom of movement?
Step 3 – Positioning & Pre-Cursive

If you write with your left hand… If you write with your right hand…

Paper Paper
tilted Try to keep tilted
your wrist
to the to the
straight and
right. left.
your hand
below the
writing line.
Your helper
Your helper
hand should
hand should
be placed on
be placed on
the right
the left side
side of the
of the paper.
paper.

Back Taken from the How to Position Your Paper Display Poster.
Step 3 – Positioning & Pre-Cursive

We are going to write a line of all of the descending (long) letters.

All of the descenders need to touch the bottom line.

Do all of your
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of thethe bottom letters
descender of the on
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them?
Step 3 – Positioning & Pre-Cursive

We are going to write some words that start with the letter ‘g’ that
also contain other descenders (long letters). Make sure that all your
descenders touch the bottom line.

Complete a line of the word ‘gap’ on the

Back Do all of your descenders touch the bottom line?
Ollie Octopus’s Descenders Activity Sheet.
Step 3 – Positioning & Pre-Cursive

Now, try two other words that contain ‘g’ and other descenders…

golf
grey

Complete lines of the words ‘golf’ and ‘grey’ on

Back Do all of your descenders touch the bottom line?
the Ollie Octopus’s Descenders Activity Sheet.
Step 4 – Joining Letters

We are going to be learning

how to write the letter ‘g’.

Back Whoosh in, go round to the top,

Go down under the line, loop and stop.
Step 4 – Joining Letters

The long letter (ascender) ‘g’ joins to other letters

using a ‘descender join’, where the loop of its curly
tail swoops around to join onto the next letter.

Look at how the letter ‘g’ joins onto these

other letters using a descender join…

gu

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Step 4 – Joining Letters

The long letter (ascender) ‘g’ joins to other letters

using a ‘descender join’, where the loop of its curly
tail swoops around to join onto the next letter.

Look at how the letter ‘g’ joins onto these

other letters using a descender join…

ge

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Step 4 – Joining Letters

Look at how the letter ‘g’ joins onto these

anticlockwise letters using a descender join…

go

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Step 4 – Joining Letters

Look at how the letter ‘g’ joins onto these

anticlockwise letters using a descender join…

ga

Have a try yourself at practising these letter patterns!

Back Remember, you will have to stop your pen/pencil and reverse
your hand movement to create the ‘o’ and the ‘a’.
Step 4 – Joining Letters
Let’s Look
Ready to Write
1. Place both feet flat on the floor.
2. Move your elbows so they’re
resting off the edge of the desk.
3. Move your bottom to the back of
the chair.
4. Lean your head and shoulders
slightly forwards.
5. Keep your knees bent at a 90°
angle.
Back
How to Grip a
Writing Tool
1. Nip - Choose the writing tool that
is best suited to the task. ‘Nip’ it
towards the end.
2. Flip - ‘Flip’ the writing tool
around so that it is resting on
your hand.
3. Grip - ‘Grip’ the writing tool.
Make sure it is pinched between
the ball of the thumb and the
forefinger, supported by the
middle finger with the other
fingers tucked away.
Check – Does your grip provide
stability and freedom of movement?
Step 4 – Joining Letters

If you write with your left hand… If you write with your right hand…

Paper Paper
tilted Try to keep tilted
your wrist
to the to the
straight and
right. left.
your hand
below the
writing line.
Your helper
Your helper
hand should
hand should
be placed on
be placed on
the right
the left side
side of the
of the paper.
paper.

Back Taken from the How to Position Your Paper Display Poster.
Step 4 – Joining Letters

Complete the Joining the Letter ‘g’ Activity Sheet.

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Step 4 – Joining Letters

Complete the Letter ‘g’ More

Joining Practice Activity Sheet
by writing the phrase ‘balancing
egg’ into every brick in your
neatest, joined style.

Don’t forget to join the looped

curly tail of your ‘g’ to create a
descender join.

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Step 5 – Increasing Fluency, Style and Speed

We are going to be learning

how to write the letter ‘g’.

Back Whoosh in, go round to the top,

Go down under the line, loop and stop.
Step 5 – Increasing Fluency, Style and Speed
Let’s Look
Ready to Write
1. Place both feet flat on the floor.
2. Move your elbows so they’re
resting off the edge of the desk.
3. Move your bottom to the back of
the chair.
4. Lean your head and shoulders
slightly forwards.
5. Keep your knees bent at a 90°
angle.
Back
How to Grip a
Writing Tool
1. Nip - Choose the writing tool that
is best suited to the task. ‘Nip’ it
towards the end.
2. Flip - ‘Flip’ the writing tool
around so that it is resting on
your hand.
3. Grip - ‘Grip’ the writing tool.
Make sure it is pinched between
the ball of the thumb and the
forefinger, supported by the
middle finger with the other
fingers tucked away.
Check – Does your grip provide
stability and freedom of movement?
Step 5 – Increasing Fluency, Style and Speed

If you write with your left hand… If you write with your right hand…

Paper Paper
tilted Try to keep tilted
your wrist
to the to the
straight and
right. left.
your hand
below the
writing line.
Your helper
Your helper
hand should
hand should
be placed on
be placed on
the right
the left side
side of the
of the paper.
paper.

Back Taken from the How to Position Your Paper Display Poster.
Step 5 – Increasing Fluency, Style and Speed

Gary Gearstick, the local mechanic, has a very hectic week ahead and he
has scribbled down notes about his garage bookings on sticky notes, but
now he can’t read them! Can you help to write down all of his commitments
in a neater, legible and joined style? Add the day and his bookings into his
work diary on the Gary Gearstick’s Muddle Activity Sheet?

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Step 5 – Increasing Fluency, Style and Speed

You can further practise your fluency, style and speed using the Fluency,
Style and Speed Practice: The Letter ‘g’ Activity Sheet.

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