Year 2 Pre-cursive lower case letters revision worksheet

“Sitting Right and Holding Well” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 2 English unit “Pre-cursive lower case letters revision”, for children aged 6 to 7, and takes about 22 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 16 to 17 of the year, 9 sheets in the unit.

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Sitting Right and Holding Well

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 2 · English · about 22 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can sit correctly and hold my pencil with a tripod grip.

A Look back3 min

1.
Which letter is missing from the middle of the chain? Circle one.
txrw
2.
Say the alphabet and touch one counter for each letter. Which letter lands on the last counter? Circle it.
efgd
3.
Which letter comes just before r in the alphabet? Circle one.
qpsr

B Watch me, then you4 min

Ola is getting ready to write. She sits at the table and picks up her pencil.

An empty wooden chair pushed up to a low table with a sheet of paper on it

Watch me

Three fingers hold the pencil: thumb, pointing finger and tall middle finger.

Feet flat on the floor and back against the chair.

Tummy just touching the table edge.

Ola writes with her right hand, so she tilts her paper a little to the left.

Now you

1.
If you write with your right hand, which way do you tilt the paper? Circle one.
a little to the lefta little to the rightnot at all

C Your turn7 min

Each row changes one thing. Circle the right answer.

1.
Where should your feet be when you write? Circle one.
flat on the floorhooked round the chair legstucked up under you
2.
Where should your back be? Circle one.
resting against the chairpulled away from the chairbent over the table
3.
Which part of you should just touch the table edge? Circle one.
your foreheadyour tummyyour knees
4.
Which fingers make the tripod grip? Circle one.
thumb, pointing finger and tall middle fingerthumb, ring finger and little fingerall five fingers in a fist

Say it out loud: Which body part did each question change? What stayed the same in every row?

D Spot the mistake3 min

Kit says: “I hold my pencil in my fist. That is the best way to write neatly.”

1.
Is Kit right? Write why in one or two sentences.

E Think deeper3 min

A three-legged wooden stool standing steady on a plain floor

1.
Why might three fingers control a pencil better than a whole fist? Explain in two or three sentences.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Sitting Right and Holding Well · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. t

2. f If they circle e or g, they skipped or added a counter. Touch each counter slowly as you say a, b, c together.

3. q If they circle r, they have picked the letter already in the chain. Ask which letter sits just before it.

B

1. a little to the left If they say to the right, that is the tilt for a left hand. Read the last line of Ola's steps with them.

C

1. flat on the floor If they pick tucked up under you, ask them to press both feet down so they are flat.

2. resting against the chair

3. your tummy If they pick knees, ask them to sit up tall and shuffle in until their tummy touches the edge.

4. thumb, pointing finger and tall middle finger If they pick the fist, ask them to count how many fingers are holding the pencil in a tripod grip.

D

1. Look for: says Kit is wrong, because a tripod grip with three fingers steers the pencil better than a fist If they say Kit is right, ask them to draw a loop with a fist, then with three fingers.

E

1. Look for: gives a reason about control, such as three fingers balancing the pencil from different sides so small moves are easier

Words to use

Say“Show me how your three fingers hold the pencil. Which finger is the tallest one?”

Instead of“Just tell them to hold the pencil properly and keep writing.”

After the sheet

Ask your child to hold a crayon with thumb and first two fingers. Then draw a wobbly loop each on scrap paper. Swap who draws first.

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The rest of this unit

8 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Writing i, l and t(with a plan)
Tracing u, y and j(with a plan)
Writing m, n and r(with a plan)
Lead-ins for b, p, h and k(with a plan)
Hold hands: c, a and d(with a plan)
Lead ins and lead outs(with a plan)
Lead ins and loops(with a plan)
Hold hands or take a break(with a plan)

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