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How to hold a pencil posters (Ref: SB5947)
Simple posters showing how to hold a pencil.
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I can hold a pencil correctly certificates (Ref: SB5948)
Certificates to present to pupils as awards for learning to hold their pencil correctly.
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Pencil control worksheets 1 (Ref: SB4041)
10 simple pencil control worksheets where children make straight lines, wavy lines, shapes and more.
Pencil control worksheets 2 (Ref: SB3043)
8 fun worksheets for pencil control, focusing on the letters e, l, m, n, o, s, w and z with swirls, wavy lines, zigzags and more.
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Fireworks pencil control sheets (Ref: SB6276)
Worksheets with a fireworks theme, designed to help children practise pencil control by tracing along the lines.
Printing
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Letter formation posters (Ref: SB7841)
Simple visual aids featuring ‘Caterpillar Letters’, ‘Ladder Letters’, ‘One-Armed Robot Letters’ and ‘Zigzag Monster Letters’.
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Letter formation visual aids (Ref: SB1220)
A great set of A4-size visual aids showing ‘caterpillar letters’, ‘ladder letters’, ‘one-armed robot letters’ and the others.  These are fantastic for displaying as reminders in your classroom, or can be laminated for use with drywipe pens, and many other uses.
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Ground, grass and sky alphabet posters (Ref: SB3961)
Posters with lowercase alphabet letters presented on our popular ground, grass and sky format.
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Letter formation desktop mats (Ref: SB2306)
Printable desktop visual aids with the alphabet letters grouped by the way they are written: ‘ladder letters’, ‘caterpillar letters’, ‘one-armed robot letters’ and ‘zigzag monster letters’.
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‘Writing Letters’ formation worksheets - lowercase
(Ref: SB5016)
A set of basic worksheets where pupils trace and write lowercase letters from a-z.
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‘Writing Letters’ formation worksheets - capitals
(Ref: SB5023)
A set of basic worksheets where pupils trace and write uppercase letters from A-Z.
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Letter formation practise sheets (Ref: SB7838)
Printable trace and write sheets with alphabet letters grouped into ‘caterpillar letters’, ‘ladder letters’, ‘one-armed robot letters’ and ‘zigzag monster letters’.
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Cursive
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Letter formation visual aids - cursive (Ref: SB1326)
A great set of A4-size visual aids showing ‘caterpillar letters’, ‘ladder letters’, ‘one-armed robot letters’ and ‘zigzag monster letters’ all in cursive handwriting.  These are fantastic for displaying as reminders in your classroom, or can be laminated for use with drywipe pens, and many other uses.
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‘Writing Letters’ formation worksheets - cursive
(Ref: SB7999)
A set of basic worksheets where pupils trace and write lowercase letters from a-z in cursive script.
Numbers
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Number formation worksheets 0-9 (Ref: SB283)
A set of 10 simple worksheets to help children practise their number formation.  Numerals 0 up to 9.
Number formation worksheets 10-20 (Ref: SB3305)
An extension to our number formation worksheets 0-9.  10 simple worksheets to help children practise their number formation.  Numbers 10 to 20.
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