English · Stage 3
Joining More Letters
Writing & Composing — trickier joins: round letters join across the top, and some tail letters make you lift your pen
✦ English📘 Stage 3 · S3⏱ ~10 min🧒 Ages 7–8★ Free to start
I can begin to join handwriting.
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Kavi Joins the Tricky Ones
Kavi the owl already joins easy letters like in and an. "Now for the tricky joins!" he says. "Some letters end way up high — o, w, r, v — so their join flows across the top, not up from the line. And after a tail letter like g or p, I lift my pen and start fresh. Let's join whole little words together!"
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What your child will learn
1Where does the join come from?A join is the little stroke that flows from one letter into the next. Tap each one to hear Kavi explain.
2Which join comes out of each letter?
3End on the line, join up · end high, join acrossLook at where a letter finishes. That tells you how it joins to the next one — and tail letters tell you when to lift.
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A peek inside
What kind of join holds the letters in ow together?
o ends up high → the join goes across the top
Try this at home: Round letters like o, w and r end up high. Does their join go across the top or up from the line?
Ready to play and learn?
Start the free interactive lesson, or print the handout for screen-free play.
Part of English · Stage 3 · S3 on KAVI Academy — a secular, whole-child learning platform for ages 5–12.