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Teacher's Guides provide the latest resources and strategies for teaching handwriting in only 15 minutes per day.
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Letters and Numbers for Me Teacher’s Guide (Kindergarten)
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My Printing Book Teacher’s Guide (Grade 1)
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Printing Power Teacher’s Guide (Grade 2)
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Teacher’s Guides give multisensory strategies and activities for implementing handwriting instruction. They provide the latest resources and strategies for teaching handwriting at appropriate level in only 15 minutes per day. These tools provide everything needed to help children master handwriting, build confidence, and write automatically, without thinking about how to form their letters.
Letters and Numbers for Me Teacher’s Guide (Kindergarten)
Activities help children with fine motor skills, pencil grip, and letter recognition. Lessons include scripted questions, reproductions of reduced-size student pages, multisensory activities, finger trace and check models with instructions, page numbers, word lists, and more.
- Accelerated capital letter instruction
- More opportunities for writing practice
- Streamlined lesson design
- Embedded multimedia for easy lesson planning
- Simplified teaching guidelines
- Differentiated instruction
- English Language Learners strategies and activities
- Cross-curricular connections
- School-to-home connections
- Line generalization
- Seamless and fluid instruction, including modeling, writing, and music
My Printing Book Teacher’s Guide (Grade 1)
Provides tips and lesson plans that emphasize letter skills, word skills, and sentence skills. Includes information on how to prepare for lessons, stages of learning, instructional stages, a scope and sequence, posture, grip, spacing, and other helpful hints. Lessons include scripted questions, reproductions of reduced-size student pages, multisensory activities, finger trace and check models with instructions, page numbers, word lists, and more.
- Accelerated capital letter instruction
- More opportunities for writing practice
- Streamlined lesson design
- Embedded multimedia makes lesson planning easy
- Simplified teaching guidelines
- Differentiated Instruction
- English Language Learners strategies and activities
- Cross-curricular connections
- School-to-home connections
- Line generalization
- Seamless and fluid instruction, including modeling, writing, and music
Printing Power Teacher’s Guide (Grade 2)
Provides tips and lesson plans that emphasize letter skills, word skills, and sentence skills. Includes information on how to prepare for lessons, stages of learning, instructional stages, a scope and sequence, posture, grip, spacing, and other helpful hints. Lessons include scripted questions, reproductions of reduced-size student pages, multisensory activities, finger trace and check models with instructions, page numbers, word lists, and more.
- More opportunities for writing practice
- Streamlined lesson design
- Embedded multimedia makes lesson planning easy
- Simplified teaching guidelines
- Differentiated Instruction
- English Language Learners strategies and activities
- Cross-curricular connections
- School-to-home connections
- Line generalization
- Seamless and fluid instruction, including modeling, writing, and music
Cursive Handwriting Teacher's Guide (Grade 3)
Provides tips and lesson plans that emphasize space, word, and sentence skills, along with the tow truck connections of o, w, b, and v. Strategies for teaching the four basic cursive connections are also included. There's plenty of information on how to prepare for lessons, stages of learning, instructional stages, a scope and sequence, posture, grip, spacing, and other helpful hints. Lessons include scripted questions, reproductions of reduced-size student pages, multisensory activities, finger trace and check models with instructions, page numbers, word lists, and more.
- More opportunities for writing practice
- Streamlined lesson design
- Embedded multimedia makes lesson planning easy
- Simplified teaching guidelines
- Differentiated Instruction
- English Language Learners strategies and activities
- Cross-curricular connections
- School-to-home connections
- Line generalization
- Seamless and fluid instruction, including modeling, writing, and music
Cursive Success Teacher's Guide (Grade 4)
Provides tips and lesson plans to teach handwriting, posture, paper skills, letter skills, word skills, and sentence skills through imitation, copying and independent writing. Includes information on how to prepare for lessons, stages of learning, instructional stages, a scope and sequence, posture, grip, spacing, and other helpful hints. Lessons include scripted questions, reproductions of reduced-size student pages, multisensory activities, finger trace and check models with instructions, page numbers, word lists, and more
- More opportunities for writing practice
- Streamlined lesson design
- Embedded multimedia makes lesson planning easy
- Simplified teaching guidelines
- Differentiated Instruction
- English Language Learners strategies and activities
- Cross-curricular connections
- School-to-home connections
- Line generalization
- Seamless and fluid instruction, including modeling, writing, and music
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Write Your Own Review
We should not lose sight of the numerous things that handwriting, especially cursive writing, brings to the table in regards to educational and communication skills, and overall development. Benefits of cursive handwriting include:
Strengthening Hand-Eye Coordination
The exercise of using your hands and eyes at the same time for cursive writing improves the use of these two systems. While children develop these skills when learning to print, to stop challenging them and move straight to keyboarding skills alone does not encourage higher-level writing skills.
Increasing Ease and Speed
Many children, especially those with dyslexia, may find it easier to write in cursive once learned. There is less chance of letter reversals, and the encouraged continuous loops in letter formation makes motor planning easier for some children. In addition, cursive writing flows and actually allows students to write faster, so they can put down more information at a time.
Improving Learning By Writing It Down
All children learn differently, but when we are required to write something down, we tend to learn it better. Therefore, whether it be writing from a lecture or copying from the board or a book, children are likely to retain information better.
Continuing a Part of History
Not only does writing in cursive add so many benefits to learning, motor planning and education, it also gives children the ability to read cursive writing, such as historical documents and personal handwritten letters. The argument can be made that many people do not use cursive, however oftentimes cards or letters are written in cursive, especially from loved ones, such as grandparents. As well, documents such the Constitution are written in cursive. If we do not teach children to write in cursive, they will not learn to fluently read it.
Deanna Macioce, MS, OTR/L
Strengthening Hand-Eye Coordination
The exercise of using your hands and eyes at the same time for cursive writing improves the use of these two systems. While children develop these skills when learning to print, to stop challenging them and move straight to keyboarding skills alone does not encourage higher-level writing skills.
Increasing Ease and Speed
Many children, especially those with dyslexia, may find it easier to write in cursive once learned. There is less chance of letter reversals, and the encouraged continuous loops in letter formation makes motor planning easier for some children. In addition, cursive writing flows and actually allows students to write faster, so they can put down more information at a time.
Improving Learning By Writing It Down
All children learn differently, but when we are required to write something down, we tend to learn it better. Therefore, whether it be writing from a lecture or copying from the board or a book, children are likely to retain information better.
Continuing a Part of History
Not only does writing in cursive add so many benefits to learning, motor planning and education, it also gives children the ability to read cursive writing, such as historical documents and personal handwritten letters. The argument can be made that many people do not use cursive, however oftentimes cards or letters are written in cursive, especially from loved ones, such as grandparents. As well, documents such the Constitution are written in cursive. If we do not teach children to write in cursive, they will not learn to fluently read it.
Deanna Macioce, MS, OTR/L
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