Writing Practice for Grade 1–2

About these lessons

Children in grade 1 and grade 2 are learning that a sentence is a complete thought: it starts with a capital letter, ends with a full stop and puts the words in a sensible order. These lessons practise exactly that, using bright picture stories about a cat on a chair, a red ball in the park or a rabbit in the garden.

Each lesson has five tiny steps. First your child puts given words in order, then fixes a capital letter or a full stop, then chooses between two words, and finally writes a short sentence about the picture. The helper points to one thing at a time, so a six-year-old is never faced with a page of red marks.

Sit beside your child for the first few lessons: talk about the picture, say the sentence aloud together, then let them type. Two or three lessons a week are plenty at this age. When a lesson feels easy, the next level adds plural words, a and an, and joining two ideas with and or but.

What you practise

• W1 · pre-A1Capital letters · full stops · S-V-O word order
• W2 · pre-A13–5 word sentences · plural -s · a/an
• W3 · A1and / but · describing adjectives

Lessons include “The Dog Runs”, “My Big Bed”, “The Cat Sleeps” and 60 more.