Hi everybody.

My name is Mrs. Mistree and I'm so pleased to be with you today.

In today's lesson, we're gonna get to practise more of our cursive handwriting, focusing in on some high frequency words.

This comes from our unit review, no lead-ins.

I am really looking forward today.

I think we're gonna learn lots and we're gonna have lots of fun.

Shall we get started? The outcome of today's lesson is, I can write high frequency words using cursive handwriting.

In today's lesson there are gonna be some key words that I would like you to listen out for and to look out for.

Let's do my turn, your turn, to practise these words.

High frequency word.

Lead out.

Join.

Starting point.

Letter string.

Well done everybody.

I loved your enthusiasm.

Okay, let's look out for these words during our lesson and let's listen out for those words during our lesson.

In today's lesson, there will be three parts to it.

We're going to be looking at some high frequency words.

In the first part of our lesson, we'll be looking at the words 'for' and 'his.

' In the second part of our lesson, we'll be looking at the words 'but' and 'not.

' And the third part of our lesson, we'll be looking at the high frequency words 'can' and 'out.

' Let's get started at looking at 'for' and 'his.

' Before we start our handwriting, it's really important that we warm up our hands and our wrists.

That's because your hands and your wrists get stronger when you exercise them.

And warming up your hands before writing will help to improve your handwriting.

In that case, we better do some exercises first.

So for our exercises today to get our fingers and our wrists warmed up, we're gonna do the finger touch and we're gonna do wiper wrists.

We'll do my turn, your turn.

So I'm gonna start with the finger touch.

So I'm gonna get one of my hands first of all, it doesn't matter which one, and I am just pressing my fingers together to do the finger touch, waking them up, not too hard, but also giving them a good press so they start to get the blood flowing in those fingers.

Let's do it with the other finger, another hand.

Great.

Want to join in with me? Get your hands ready.

Let's choose one hand and we finger touch.

Excellent.

And then your other hand.

That's good.

And then let's do them together.

Do you start to feel your fingers warming up? I certainly can.

Well done.

Very good.

Okay, now we're gonna try the wiper wrist, getting our wrists warmed up.

I'll go first.

So it's like windscreen wipers on the car or the bus as you move your wrists from side to side.

We don't often move our wrists in this direction, so it's good to get some practise and get them strong and warmed up.

Okay, your turn with me.

Ready? Hands up and we move our wrists side to side like windscreen wipers.

We can go faster, we can go slower.

It's always important to get your wrists warmed up as well because they're a big part of the strength that we need for handwriting.

Well done.

I hope your fingers and your wrists feel more warmed up now.

Let's have a closer look at what a high frequency word is.

So high frequency words are words that appear most frequently, so they appear a lot in written texts.

It is good to practise these words in cursive handwriting as they will appear a lot in your writing.

Learning and practising the letter joins in these words will improve your cursive handwriting skills, allowing for a smooth flow of handwriting, which is really important when we're practising our cursive handwriting.

Let's do a check for understanding.

Which of these do you think are high frequency words? Pause the video now.

Welcome back.

I hope you had fun looking at those words and deciding which ones were the high frequency words.

Did you select A, the word 'she?' That is a high frequency word.

Did you select B, 'in?' That as well is a high frequency word.

'She' and 'in' are high frequency words as they will appear a lot in written texts.

The word 'dinosaur' and the word 'cold' might appear in texts, but it doesn't appear as frequently as 'she' and 'in.

' Well done.

Now let's move on to thinking about the joins that we use in cursive handwriting.

I wonder if you can remember the four joins that we use? Here's some examples of them.

So the first join is from the baseline to the x-height line.

In this example, the letter N joins into the letter A.

The second join is from the baseline up towards the ascender line.

In this example, the letter C joins into the letter K.

And the third join is from the x-height line to the x-height line.

Can you see how the letter O joins to the letter M? And finally our fourth join.

The fourth join goes from the x-height line up towards the ascender line.

If you see here that letter R joining to the letter L.

These are the four cursive handwriting joins that you will be using in today's lesson.

You'll be using a range of them within the different words.

So let's look closely at some high frequency words in cursive.

Here are our two first words.

We've got the word 'for' and the word 'his.

' What I would like you to do is take some time, speak to the people around you.

What do you notice? What can you see about these words? Pause the video now.

Well done everybody.

Thank you for those discussions.

I wonder if you noticed these things.

Did you notice that both words have a letter which has an ascender? For the word 'for' the letter F has an ascender because part of the letter reaches above the x-height line and for the word 'his,' the H has an ascender because part of the letter reaches above the x-height line.

Did you also notice that the letter F also has a lead out loop.

A part of the letter that reaches below the baseline and for its lead out it loops around to come back up to join to the O.

Did you also notice that both of these words have a lead out on the last letter, the R for the word 'for' and the S for the word 'his.

' Did you also notice that there is an appropriate space between the letters? They're not too close together, they're not too far apart.

They just sit nicely together and that's what we like to see in cursive handwriting.

Let's look a bit closer at the word 'for.

' The word 'for' is a high frequency word.

That means that it appears frequently in written text.

The letter F has a starting point between the baseline and the x-height line.

Can you see that? And then it goes up towards the ascender line.

The letter F connects to the O using the first join as the lead out loop goes from the baseline up to the x-height line.

The letter O connects to the letter R using the third join from the x-height line to the x-height line.

The letter F uses a lead out loop to connect to the letter O.

Let's have a look at the word 'his.

' The word 'his' is a high frequency word.

It must appear frequently many times in a written text.

The letter H has a starting point on the ascender line.

That's the first letter.

The letter S has a lead out, the last letter.

The letter H connects to the letter I using the first join.

The letter I connects to the S using the first join.

So for both of these joins, the first join is used.

Now is our opportunity to have a go at writing these words in the air with our finger.

We're gonna do my turn and then it's your turn.

So I'm gonna start with the word 'for.

' Now we've talked about the first letter here.

The F has a loop to begin with and then a lead out loop as well before it joins to the letter O, and I need to remember that the R has a dip down as the lead out.

Okay, I'm gonna start.

My starting point is between the baseline and the x-height line.

So I'm gonna start here with my finger, and I'm gonna go up and round and down, down to the descender line, and loop up, my lead out loop, then the O in an anti-clockwise direction across for the R and down and dip down for my lead out.

Excellent.

Could you do it with me this time? Let's get your fingers ready.

Remembering the starting point is between the baseline and the x-height line.

We go up, round, and then down to the descender line, looping back up to join to the O, and then across the third join to the R, dip down for the lead out.

Well done.

Very good.

Okay, let's look at the next word.

It's 'his.

' My turn first and looking at it, I can see that the starting point for the H is on the ascender line and I need to remember that I don't add the dot for the I until I finished my letter string.

Let me see if I can remember that.

I'm gonna start at the starting point of the ascender line down, up, and back over for the H, up for the I, not adding the dot at this point, up for the S, round and the lead out, finger comes off, and I need to go back and dot for the I.

Excellent, you could try it with me.

Let's get your fingers ready up at the ascender line.

We go down, up and over, up for the I, don't add the dot yet, up for the S.

Remember that lead out, finger off, and dot for the I.

Well done everybody.

Now we're gonna practise the high frequency words 'for' and 'his.

' So we'll start with 'for.

' It's got three letters.

And it begins between the baseline and the x-height line.

So we go up and do the first loop.

So let's try that.

So 'for.

' The F first looping up and down to the descender line.

I cut for the O in an anti-clockwise direction.

Third, join for the O to the R, and the lead out for the R.

Let's try that again.

So looping up to begin with.

Straight back down to the descender line, loop up the O, and then the R lead out.

The next word we're gonna look at is the word 'his.

' High frequency word 'his.

' So it begins with the letter H.

So it starts at the ascender line, goes down, back up and over, up again for the I, not adding the the dot at this point, back up for the S, and the lead out.

Pen off and a dot for the I.

Let's try that again.

So down from the ascender line, back up and over, up for the I, up for the S with the lead out, pen off and a dot.

Let's do a check for understanding.

Please select the correct join sequence.

Is it A, B, or C? Pause the video now.

Welcome back.

Did you select A? That is the correct formation of the word 'for.

' Do you notice that the letters are formed in the correct way? They're the right size and the correct joins have been used.

They've also got the adequate spacing between the letters.

Well done.

Let's do another check for understanding for the word 'his.

' Please select the correct join sequence.

Pause the video now.

Well done.

Did you select B? That is the correct join sequence for the word 'his.

' Let's have a look.

Can you see that the letters are the right correct size, that the joins are correct, and that the letters are adequately spaced out? We've also remembered the lead out on that S.

Well done.

We're now moving on to our first task.

In this task I would like you to practise forming the high frequency words 'for' and 'his.

' We're gonna start off by looking at the word 'for.

' I'd like you to go over the grey examples.

After this I would like you to move on to try using the starting dot to form the word 'for.

' And then finally completing two lines independently on your tramlines.

Once you've completed that, I'd like you to do the same for the word 'his,' starting by going over the grey examples, then using the starting dot, and then finally completing two lines independently on your tramlines.

Enjoy, have fun, and I'll see you soon.

Pause the video now.

Fabulous work everybody.

I hope you had fun doing that.

Let's have a little discussion about what you can see when you're looking at your words.

I wonder, did you use the correct starting point for the first letter? So for the F, it's just between the baseline and the x-height line, and for the H it was up at the ascender line.

I wonder if you used the correct joins between the letters.

Have a look and just double check that you have.

And I wonder, did you join the letters without lifting your pencil? For example with the word 'his,' did you remember to get to the end of the letter string before you went back to dot the I? Excellent work.

What I'd like you to do now is look at your words and circle your best and celebrate.

We're now moving on to the second part of our lesson where we're gonna be looking at the high frequency words 'but' and 'not.

' Here are our next two high frequency words in cursive, 'but' and 'not.

' What I would like you to do is speak to the people around you and look at these words.

What do you notice? What can you see? Pause the video now.

Thank you everybody for those discussions.

I hope you had fun and you've managed to spot a few things.

I wonder if you notice these things.

Did you notice that both words have a letter with an ascender? For the word 'but' the letter B has an ascender, part of the letter that reaches above the x-height line, and for the word 'not' the letter T has part of the letter that reaches above the x-height line, so it has an ascender.

Did you also notice that the last letter of both of these words is T and it has a lead out at the end? Did you also see that the letters are equally spaced apart? They're not really far away from each other, they're not on top of each other.

They're perfectly spaced.

Let's look a bit closer at the word 'but.

' The word 'but' is a high frequency word, so it appears many times in written text.

The letter B has a starting point on the ascender line.

The letter B connects to the letter U using the first join from the baseline to the x-height line.

Let's look a bit closer at the word 'but.

' The word 'but' is a high frequency word, meaning it appears many times in written text.

The letter B has a starting point on the ascender line.

The letter B connects to the letter U using the first join, so from the baseline to the x-height line.

The letter U connects to the letter T using the second join, it goes from the baseline up towards the ascender line.

The last letter is a letter T and the cross for the letter T is added once the letter string is complete.

Let's look at the word 'not.

' The word 'not' is a high frequency word.

The letter N, the first letter, has a starting point on the x-height line.

The letter N connects to the letter O using the first join from the baseline to the x-height line, and that letter O connects to the letter T using the fourth join.

So going from the x-height line up towards the ascender line.

The cross for the letter T is added once the letter string is complete.

So both of these words, once you've completed the lead out for the T, you then go back to add the cross for the T.

Now's our opportunity to have a go at writing these words in the air with our finger.

We're going to do my turn, your turn.

So I'm going to start looking at the word 'but.

' I can see that the starting point is on the ascender line and I can also see that it has a letter T, so I need to finish the letter T and the letter string before going back to add the cross for the T.

So let me go first.

I'm gonna start with my finger up at the ascender line.

I'm gonna go down, up and over for the B, up to the x-height line for the U, up halfway between the x-height line and the ascender line for the T, down and lead out, finger off, and a cross for the T.

Could you help me this time? Let's get your fingers ready.

We're starting up on the ascender line.

We're going all the way down, up and over, back up to the x-height line for the U, and then up towards the ascender line, down to the baseline, lead out, finger off, that's important, and then the cross for the T.

Well done everybody.

That was great.

Okay, I'm gonna have a go at the word 'not' now.

Again, it's got three letters, but the starting point for the N is the x-height line this time.

Okay, I'm gonna start on the x-height line.

I'm gonna go down, back up and over for the N, back to the x-height line to form the O in an anti-clockwise direction, up halfway between the x-height line and the ascender line, down, lead out, finger off, and a cross for the T.

Great, think you can help me this time? Let's get your fingers ready.

Starting point on the x-height line, down, up and over, up to the x-height line, and going around an anti-clockwise direction for the O, halfway between the x-height line and the ascender line for the T, down, lead out, finger off, that's right, and then a cross for the T.

Wow.

Well done everybody.

There's a reminder here, just that the cross for the letter T is only added once the letter string is complete.

We remembered that, didn't we? Well done.

Going to practise the high frequency words 'but' and 'not.

' So starting with 'but' the starting point is on the ascender.

So we go down, back up and over, back up for the U, back up for the T.

Not all the way to the ascender line, between the x-height line and the ascender line, lead out, pen off, line across for the T.

Let's try that again.

So starting from the ascender line, back up and over, up for the U, up for the T, and across.

Okay, so that's 'but.

' Now we're gonna think about the high frequency word 'not.

' So again, three letters beginning with an N.

So we start on the x-height line, and we go down, the first join joining the N to the O, and then up for the T, lead out, pen off, and the cross.

Let's do that again.

Starting on the x-height line, up and over, from the x-height line up towards the ascender line, but not quite there for the T, lead out, pen off, and the cross for 'not.

' Let's do a check for understanding.

Please select the correct join sequence for the word 'but.

' Pause the video now.

Well done.

Did you select B? That is the correct formation of the word 'but.

' Can you see that the letters are the correct size, they're spaced adequately apart from each other, and the T has a lead out at the end? Well done.

Let's do another check for understanding for the word 'not.

' Please select the correct join sequence.

Pause the video now.

Did you select A? This is the correct join sequence for the word 'not.

' The letters are formed correctly and the joins used are the correct joins to join those letters together.

Well done for spotting that.

We're now moving on to our second task where we're gonna be practising forming the high frequency words 'but' and 'not.

' I'd like you to start by focusing on the word 'but.

' First of all, going over the grey examples, then using the starting dots to write the words 'but,' and then finally completing two lines independently on your tramlines.

Once you've completed that, I'd like you to do the same thing for the word 'not.

' Starting with the grey outlines, then using the starting dot, and then finally doing two lines independently on your tramlines.

Have fun, enjoy, see if you can get your pencil flowing really smoothly for these words.

Pause the video now.

Great work everybody.

I hope you had fun doing that.

I hope your pencil was moving smoothly across the page.

Let's have a look at your words.

Did you use the correct starting point for the first letter? That's always so important.

For the B, did you start up at the ascender line, and for the N, did you start on the x-height line? I wonder if you used the correct joins to connect the letters together.

Have a look at the examples here, then look at yours.

Did you use the correct joins? And I wonder if you remembered to add the cross for the T only once you'd finished your letter string.

I would like you to have a look at all of your words now and circle your best and celebrate.

Well done.

We're now moving on to the last part of our lesson.

We're gonna be looking at the high frequency words 'can' and 'out.

' Here are our next two high frequency words in cursive.

We can see the word 'can' and the word 'out.

' I would like you to have a look, talk to the people around you.

What can you see and what do you notice about these words? Pause the video now.

Well done, once again, fantastic conversations.

Did you notice these things? Did you notice that the last letters both have a lead out, the N for the word 'can' and the T for the word 'out?' Did you also notice that the word 'out' has an ascender part of the letter that reaches above the x-height line? Did you see with the word 'can' that all of the letters are x-height letters? Did you also notice that there's adequate spacing between the letters and you see that they're sitting next to each other, they're joined nicely, they're not on top of each other, they're not really far apart? That's what we're looking for in cursive handwriting.

Let's have a closer look at the word 'can.

' The word 'can' is a high frequency word.

It appears a lot in written text.

The letter C has a starting point just below the x-height line.

The letter N, the last letter, has a lead out.

The letter C connects to the A using the first join and the letter A connects to the letter N using the first join.

So actually it's only the first join that's used in this word.

Let's look at the word 'out.

' The word 'out' is also a high frequency word.

The letter O, the first letter, has a starting point at the x-height line.

The letter O connects to the U using the third join, so from the x-height line to the x-height line.

But the letter U connects to the T using the second join, going from the baseline up towards the ascender line.

And the cross for the letter T is added only once the letter string is complete.

Now it's our opportunity to try and write these words in the air with our finger.

We're going to do my turn, your turn.

I'm gonna start, I'm looking at the word 'can.

' I can remember that we noticed it only has x-height letters and I can see that my starting point for the letter C is just below the x-height line.

So I'm gonna get my finger ready and I'm gonna curl round in an anti-clockwise direction for the letter C, up for the letter A, remembering all the letters are the same size, back down, up for the letter N, up and over and down, and the lead out.

My pencil off.

Can you help me this time? Let's get your fingers ready just below the x-height line.

We're gonna go round in an anti-clockwise direction, up for the letter A and round, that's anti-clockwise direction as well, back up for the N, down, up and over, and the lead out.

Finger off.

Well done.

Now I'm gonna look at the word 'out.

' Hmm, I'm looking and I can see that this word does have a letter that has an ascender, the T.

And I also remember that with the letter T, we have to finish the letter string, take our pencil off, and then add the cross.

The first letter, the letter O, starts at the x-height line.

So my turn first.

Gonna go start at the x-height line, go round in anti-clockwise direction, using the third join go across, and then down to make the U, up towards the ascender line, between the x-height line and the ascender line, down and lead out, finger off, and a cross for the T.

Okay, can you help me this time? Let's get your fingers on the x-height line and round in an anti-clockwise direction for the O, across and down for the U, up past the x-height line towards the ascend line for the T, down, lead out, finger off.

And then we add the cross for the T.

Well done everybody.

Fabulous work.

Now we're gonna practise the high frequency words 'can' and 'out.

' So starting with 'can,' the three letters are all x-height letters.

The C begins just below the x-height line, so I'm gonna try it here.

C, and then the A, and then the N both using the first join.

Let's try that again.

C, an anticlockwise direction, back up for the N, and a lead out.

That's 'can.

' The next word we're going to look at is the high frequency word 'out.

' So three letters again.

The O starts on the x-height line.

So we go round anti-clockwise direction for the O, third join across to join the U, and then up towards the ascender line, but not quite for the T, lead out, pen off, a cross for the T.

Let's try that again.

Starting on the x-height line, around for the O, down for the U up for the T, lead out, pen off and a cross for the T.

Let's do a check for understanding.

Please select the correct join sequence for the word 'can.

' Pause the video now.

Well done.

The correct answer is C.

This is the correct formation of the word 'can.

' The letters are formed correctly and the correct joins are being used.

Well done.

Let's do another check for understanding for the join sequence for the word 'out.

' Pause the video now.

That's right, A is the correct answer.

This is the correct formation and join sequence for the word 'out.

' The letters are the correct size and they're using the correct joins to connect them.

Well done.

We're now moving on to our final task of the lesson.

I would like you to practise forming the high frequency words 'can' and 'out.

' First of all, we're gonna focus on the word 'can.

' The first part of the task is to go over the grey examples.

Then you will use the starting dots.

And then finally complete two lines independently on your tramlines.

Once you've done that I would like you to do the same for the high frequency word 'out.

' You start by going over the grey examples, then using the starting dots, and then finally doing two lines independently on your tramlines.

Have fun, enjoy, remember to keep your pencil flowing, and I'll see you soon.

Pause the video now.

Welcome back.

Excellent work.

Let's have a look at your words.

I wonder if you used the correct starting point for the first letter.

So for the C, it's just below the x-height line.

And for the O it's on the x-height line.

Did you join the letter string using the correct joins? Have a look at the examples here.

Check your own.

Did you use the correct joins? And did you keep your pencil on the page when joining the letters? If you did, it will feel like it was smooth and flowing really nicely.

I would like you to have a look at your words and circle your best and celebrate.

In today's lesson we have been reviewing high frequency words with no lead-ins.

We've been practising forming some high frequency words in cursive handwriting.

Here are some examples of some of the words we've been looking at, 'for' 'but' and 'can.

' High frequency words are words that appear most frequently in written texts.

Letters in the high frequency words will be joined using a range of joins depending on the letters in the word.

You start at the correct starting point for the first letter.

The last letter always has a lead out.

There is an appropriate space between the letters joined in cursive.

And you don't lift your pencil until the letter string is complete.

Well done everybody.

I have really enjoyed learning with you today.

It's been so much fun and I hope to see you soon.

Bye!.