A child who can form every letter still cannot write, because writing is spacing, and holding a sentence in your head while your hand catches up. This book is about that gap.

The sentences are silly on purpose. A goat in a hat is worth copying out; “the cat sat on the mat” is not. Every word in every sentence has already appeared earlier in the book, so a child never meets a word they cannot read while they are busy writing it.

What is inside

  • 48 first words to trace and copy
  • 24 silly sentences with a picture to colour
  • 8 write-your-own pages with a word bank
  • Free practice paper and a certificate

Pages from the book

A word page with a picture and the word written on a handwriting rule, first as a model and then as dotted copies.
The row fades from a solid model to dotted copies to an empty space.
A silly sentence to copy on handwriting rules, with a picture beside it to colour in.
Every model carries a start dot and numbered arrows along each stroke.
A write-your-own page with a word bank at the top and empty handwriting rules below.
Nothing on the page is out of reach: it only uses what came before it.

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Front cover of Write! Words & Silly Sentences, one edition, both characters

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