Phonics Based Handwriting Practice Journal - Vowel Team Words and Sentences

Maximize your instructional time by integrating phonics into handwriting. This handwriting resource combines correct letter formation and neatness with phonics, sight words, and heart words. This is the perfect handwriting resource to add to your whole class literacy and phonics lessons, small groups, or independent literacy centers.

This resource includes 91 printable vowel team phonics based handwriting pages and a handwriting journal cover. You can choose to give students one printable each day or create a handwriting journal for use in class as often as needed.

Included in this resource:

• Vowel Team ai words - 4 pages
• Vowel Team ai sentences - 5 pages
• Vowel Team ay words - 4 pages
• Vowel Team ay sentences - 5 pages
• Vowel Team ea words - 4 pages
• Vowel Team ea sentences - 5 pages
• Vowel Team ee words - 5 pages
• Vowel Team ee sentences - 5 pages
• Vowel Team ie (e) words - 2 pages
• Vowel Team ie (e) sentences - 2 pages
• Vowel Team ie (i) words - 3 pages
• Vowel Team ie (i) sentences - 5 pages
• Vowel Team igh words - 3 pages
• Vowel Team igh sentences - 5 pages
• Vowel Team oa words - 4 pages
• Vowel Team oa sentences - 5 pages
• Vowel Team ow words - 4 pages
• Vowel Team ow sentences - 5 pages
• Vowel Team oe words - 1 page
• Vowel Team oe sentences - 1 page
• Vowel Team ue words - 2 pages
• Vowel Team ue sentences - 2 pages
• Vowel Team ui words - 1 page
• Vowel Team ui sentences - 1 page
• Vowel Team ew words - 3 pages
• Vowel Team ew sentences - 5 pages

Why is handwriting so important?

Handwriting plays a vital role in literacy and cognitive development by activating neural pathways essential for reading skills. Handwriting engages fine motor skills and cognitive processes, leading to better memory retention and improved letter recognition. Developing proficient handwriting enhances language processing, fine motor skills and coordination, and creates a strong foundation for literacy and fluency.

How it works?

Word Only Pages- 4 per page

1. Look at the picture and read the word.
2. Trace the word (starting at each dot for correct letter formation)
3. Write the word (starting at each dot for correct letter formation)
4. Write the word independently on the handwriting line

Sentence Pages- 2 per page

1. Look at the picture and read the word.
2. Trace the word (starting at each dot for correct letter formation)
3. Read and Trace the Sentence (starting at each dot for correct letter formation)
4. Write the sentence independently on the handwriting line

Please note: Sight/heart words are woven throughout pages that follow the specific phonics rules AND also words that have the phonics rule, but do NOT follow the rule (heart words). Small words with long vowel sounds are included throughout (i.e. me, we, he, by, my etc.) Some sentences may have small sight words that do not follow the specific phonics rule because they are needed for a sentence to flow in a grammatically correct way. (ie. in, is, to, the, etc.)