Teachers and School Users

Full curriculum correlation with all handwriting guidelines

Aussie School fonts Plus gives teachers the vital tools they need to impart the essential skill of handwriting to children of all ages. It gives full support for all of the National, State and Territory handwriting guidelines.

The Australian National Curriculum

The National Curriculum requires that students commence learning to write by producing upper and lower case letters and progress through the years to write fluently and legibly with developing automaticity (see below for the relevant ACARA Content Descriptors). This is accomplished at a state and territory level by each of the education authorities prescribing the style of handwriting to be taught in their schools. Each font has been meticulously designed to represent the relevant state guide. Starting with Print characters and moving to PreCursive and then to Cursive all the tools are there to make teaching so much easier. Once the foundation is formed then the Speed loops version of the fonts will encourage the development of fluency and speed. Our SmartLink™ Logic built right into the Cursive and Speed loop fonts allows you to create and edit your text live and on the fly with perfect joins every time. Aussie School Fonts Plus it truly amazing. Aussie School Fonts Plus fully covers the scope of the handwriting activities described in the National Curriculum and interpreted in the state guidelines.

• FOUNDATION: ACELY 1653- Produce some lower case and upper case letters using learned letter formations
• YEAR ONE: ACELY 1663- Write using unjoined lower case and upper case letters
• YEAR TWO: ACELY 1673- Write legibly with growing fluency using unjoined upper case and lower case letters
• YEAR THREE: ACELY 1684- Write using joined letters that are clearly-formed and consistent in size
• YEAR FOUR: ACELY 1696- Write using clearly-formed joined letters, and develop increased fluency and automaticity
• YEAR FIVE: ACELY 1706- Develop a handwriting style that is becoming legible, fluent and automatic
• YEAR SIX: ACELY 1716- Develop a handwriting style that is legible, fluent and automatic and varies according to audience and purpose
• YEAR SEVEN: ACELY 1727- Consolidate a personal handwriting style that is legible, fluent and automatic and supports writing for extended periods

State and Territory Curricula

The Aussie School Fonts Plus renditions of the various state styles are based on the following materials:

• Tasmania
  • 2009 Tasmanian Education Department publication “Handwriting”
  • “Basic Handwriting” by Marlene Cox, Tasmanian Education Department,1985 (ISBN 0 7246 1313 7).
  • Covers: Tasmania Print, Tasmania PreCursive, Tasmania Cursive
• South Australian Modern Cursive
  • “Handwriting – South Australian Modern Cursive” published by the Education Department of South Australia,1983, Reprinted 1996 (ISBN 0 7243 7173 7
  • “Handwriting in the South Australian Curriculum 2nd Edition” published by the Education Department of South Australia, 2007 (ISBN 1 9212 3305 2).
  • Covers: South Australian PreCursive, South Australian Modern Cursive
• Queensland Modern Cursive, QCursive
  • Year 1-3 Queensland Department of Education handwriting resources
  • Alphabet Pack Year 1 (PR114), Letter book Year 2 (PR115) and Handwriting Pack Year 3 (PR121), published by the Open Access Unit, 1997 and the QLD Beginner Yr 4-7
  • “The Teaching of Handwriting in Years 4-7”: A Handbook published by Queensland Department of Education, Curriculum Development Services, 1984, Reprinted 1990 (ISBN 0 7242 4108 6).
  • Covers: Queensland PreCursive, Queensland Cursive
• Victorian Modern Cursive
  • The Teaching of Handwriting Revised Edition published by the Victorian Department of Education and Training, 2002 (ISBN 0 7594 0240 X)
  • The Teaching of Handwriting, published in 1985 (ISBN 0 7241 7433 8)
  • Covers: Victorian Infant Cursive, Victorian Modern Cursive, Victorian Cursive
  • Also used in Western Australia, Northern Territory
• New South Wales Foundation Handwriting Style
  • Writing K-12, Chapter VI – Handwriting: Teaching the Foundation Approach, NSW Department of Education,1987 (ISBN 0 7305 3640 8). NSW Manuscript.
  • Covers: New South Wales PreCursive, New South Wales Foundation Cursive, New South Wales Cursive, New South Wales Speed Loops
  • Also used in the ACT
• Yougnu Anangu
  • Compatible with the Australian Society of Indigenous Languages software keyboard

Use Aussie School Fonts Plus in your class/school to:

• Enhance the quality and relevance of your personally created teaching materials
• Create you own handwriting style-guides, writing sheets and teaching materials for your own class
• Model handwriting in all your printed materials
• Install the fonts on children’s computers to familiarise them with the standards
• Apply the fonts to existing texts, transforming them into exemplars of correct style
• Create accurate mental images of the handwriting characters in the minds of your students
• Build appropriate kinaesthetic memory as the children trace the letters