Key learning points

1. High frequency words are words that appear most frequently in written texts.
2. Letters in the high frequency words will be joined using a range of joins depending on the letters in the word.
3. The first letter of the word always has a lead in and the last letter has a lead out.
4. There is appropriate spacing between the letters.
5. You don’t lift your pencil until the letter string is complete.

Keywords

• High frequency word - the words that appear most frequently in written texts

• Lead in - the stroke or line that guides us into starting a letter

• Lead out - the stroke or line that guides us to smoothly finish a letter

• Join - connecting together

• Letter string - a group of letters that are written together in a word

Common misconception