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ASTON MANOR ACADEMY SPRING TERM 2016 Handwriting Competition Are you proud of your handwriting? Can you present your work neatly and accurately? Aston Manor Academy Handwriting Matters Getting ready to write Checklist Are you sitting comfortably and determined to produce your best work? Are you forming your letters correctly? Head correct Are any letters too tall or too short? distance from paper Are you holding your Back slightly pencil correctly? Are the descenders of any letters too long or too curly? flexed forward Paper correctly Is there any space between your letters? slanted Is there a space between your words? Non-writing hand Are you making the four joins correctly? stabilises the paper Diagonal joins to letters without ascending Is your paper at Horizontal join to letters without ascenders the correct angle? Diagonal join to letters with ascenders Bottom well back in the chair horizontal join to letters with ascenders Feet flat on the floor and slightly apart Ascenders: Letters that come above the line, for example: b, d, h, k, t Descenders: Letters that come below the line, for example: f, g, j, p, q, y If the answer to these questions is ‘YES,’ then why not enter our handwriting competition? To enter: All you have to do is to choose one of the following tasks and write it out in your best handwriting, taking care to form your letters neatly and join them together. You must write using blue or black ink and remember all of your punctuation!
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