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Give your kids the chance to be successful writers with this occupational-therapist-designed program.
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1002713 |
Big Sheet Draw & Write Paper
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1002712 |
Blackboard with Double Lines
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1002718 |
Color Name Plates
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Print Letter and Number Wall Cards
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Double Line Chart Tablet
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Gray Block Paper
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Pencils For Little Hands
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Print Alphabet Desk Strips
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Print Letter and Number Poster
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The printing program in first grade develops strong printing skills with hands-on activities and lessons that integrate important language arts skills, including sentence, word, and paragraph composition.
Big Sheet Draw and Write Paper
The 11" x 17" sheets are perfect for writing and drawing. Use for full length sentences or to build a 8.5" x 11" journal by folding pages in half. Includes 100 double sided sheets.
Blackboard with Double Lines
Use 10" x 17" board to teach students to make and place all letters on double lines in both printing and cursive. Teach name in print and cursive, letter placement on double lines, and cursive connections.
Color Name Plates
Give children practice writing their name. These name plates are a great visual aid to help teach children how to write their names. Perfect for desks, lockers, or cubbies. Double lines extend across the name space to provide an easy way for kids to learn the correct start, placement, and proportion of letters. A border features colorful mini alphabet cards that include an illustration that matches the beginning sound. Set of 30, card stock (11” x 3.5").
Color Print and Number Wall Cards
Eye-catching, illustrated cards promote correct formations. Includes 36 color letter and number cards. Cards are 8.5" x 11". (Same illustrations as Print Letter and Number Poster)
Double Line Chart Tablet
Designed for use with a classroom easel. The paper measures 24" x 32". Each tablet has 30 sheets. Set of 2 tablets.
Double Line Sentence Strips
Model sentences and words using double lines. Great for bulletin boards and word walls. Each set contains 100 strips (24" x 3").
Gray Block Paper
Print Alphabet Desk Strips
Place these adhesive strips on student desks as a visual cue for letter formation. One sheet of 4 desk strips. Each strip is 10.5” x 2”.
Rock, Rap, Tap & Learn Audio CD
Coordination and rhythm are used to help develop self-esteem and body awareness through upbeat and "rocking" songs. Tracks will help students develop pencil grip and writing posture, as well as letter and number formations. 25 songs and lyrics booklet included.
Writing Notebook
With regular double lines, there is room for pictures and creative writing. The left side pages have drawing space at the top and 7 sets of double lines below. The right side pages have 12 sets of double lines. The notebook may also be used for copying or journal writing.
Manufacturer Name | Handwriting Without Tears |
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Assembly Required | No |
The Handwriting Without Tears® curriculum draws from years of innovation and research to provide developmentally appropriate, multisensory tools and strategies for your classroom. The program follows research that demonstrates children learn more effectively by actively doing, with materials that address all styles of learning.
Teaching Strategies
Unique strategies that appeal to all. We teach actively and explicitly in a developmental sequence. Our program uses multisensory teaching to incorporate all the senses in a fun and engaging way, ensuring that all children learn regardless of learning style or background.
Developmental Sequence
We teach the easiest skills first, then build on prior knowledge. Our teaching sequence takes advantage of child development and brain research to promote effective learning and good habits.
Developmental Order
Teaching letters in a developmental order helps children master skills and boosts confidence. We teach capitals first, and then lowercase letters. All letters are taught in small groups of similar formation. Children master the easier letter groups, and then move to the more difficult letters groups.
Multisensory Teaching
We help children develop their writing skills through explicit, multisensory, play based instruction. Children move, touch, feel, and manipulate real objects as they learn the habits and skills essential for writing. We use music to speak to children and promote movement and memory. Other multisensory lessons in the teachers’ guides use Voices, Letter Stories, Door Tracing, Air Writing, and Mystery Letter Games to teach letter formation and placement on lines.
Learn & Check
In all of our workbooks, we teach children to check their letter, word, and sentence skills after new lessons. Students check their letters for correct start, steps, and bumping the lines. Words are checked for correct size, placement, and closeness. Sentences are checked for correct capitalization, word spacing, and punctuation.
Review & Mastery
In our cursive program, mastery of concepts is reinforced with three levels of Review & Mastery activities throughout student workbooks. The sections follow a group of letters and focus on reinforcing the formation of all previously taught letters.
Child Friendly, Simple Language
Our consistent, child friendly language evolved in response to complicated letter formation terminology in other programs. When teaching letter formation, we eliminate language that assumes that children understand left/right orientation, clockwise/counter-clockwise, or forward/backward circles. We make it easy by using fewer, carefully selected words that children know or understand. Our workbooks are accessible and friendly, yet also promote excellence. We want children to practice correctly, therefore our workbook pages promote efficient, effective practice for each letter.
Large Step-by-Step Models
It is much easier for children to understand how to form letters if you show them how. Our workbooks contain large step-by-step images that show students how to make each part of every letter.
Black & White, Simple, Clean Design & Illustrations
The black and white pages in our workbooks are clean and clear. We deliberately avoid visually confusing backgrounds, colored graphics, crowded pages, and multicolored lines. Our simple workbook pages are appealing and invite children to color and draw once they have finished the lesson.
Our illustrations promote left-to-right directionality. This is a unique feature of our workbooks. The illustrations go left to right across the page to encourage correct visual tracking and writing direction.
Lefty Friendly
Our workbooks are lefty friendly. Teaching pages provide models on the left and right so that left-handed children can easily see the model they are copying. Lefties never have to lift their hands or place them in an awkward position to see a model. Children always make their best letter directly beside a model. This design encourages excellent letter practice for both left- and right-handed children.
Choking Hazard | No |
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Sterile | No |