- Explicit handwriting instruction builds confident readers and writers.
- Handwriting is one of the fundamental building blocks of communication and literacy skills development.
- The ability to handwrite effectively with automaticity and fluency supports students to remember, process, store and retrieve information.
- Fluency in transcription skills, such as handwriting and keyboarding, enables students to focus their thinking on the composing aspects of writing.
- Thus, over a period of time, students move from learning to write to writing to learn.
- Oxford Handwriting for Victoria ensures that students acquire handwriting skills in a logical order, from simple to complex, with frequent opportunities to practise both new and previously learnt skills and concepts.
- This series uses the Victorian Modern Cursive font.
- In Foundation, the scope and sequence is aligned to the Letters and Sounds phonics scope and sequence, ensuring opportunities to align handwriting and early phonics and spelling instruction.
