Handwriting Without Tears Third Grade Hands-On Materials

Give your kids the chance to be successful writers with this occupational-therapist-designed program.
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Product Description
Students who have mastered handwriting are better, more creative writers. Handwriting Without Tears® (HWT) utilizes a two-lined approach to handwriting, providing a simple but clearly successful style. This style is developmentally based, works for children of all abilities, is easy to teach and is multi-sensory. Children with visual, perceptual, fine motor and other processing problems learn to write neatly and legibly. HWT is also "lefty" friendly and includes easy-to-learn steps for writing with both teacher and student manuals.

Features:
  • Lessons align with the Common Core State Standards (see Documents tab for more information)
  • Technology links for lesson extensions and support
  • Home links to facilitate school-to-home connection
  • Video links to demonstrate lessons and activities
  • Curriculum connections
  • More to Learn to extend each lesson
  • Extended teaching guidelines to incorporate handwriting all year
  • ELL and support strategies provide suggestions for modifying or reinforcing a lesson

The program for third grade teaches the basic connections used in cursive writing and provides help for identifying and overcoming problems with hands-on activities and lessons that integrate important language arts skills, including sentence, word, and paragraph composition.

Third Grade Cursive Teacher’s Guide
Gives you the latest resources and strategies for teaching handwriting in only 15 minutes per day. 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 & 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. 174 pages, softcover.

Cursive Handwriting
For third grade students or those working at that level. Perfect for students ready for cursive writing, or for older students struggling with cursive, this workbook facilitates an easy transition from print to cursive. Children learn to write neatly, with speed and confidence. Lowercase letters are taught first. Teaching pages feature large step-by-step illustrations and child-friendly language. Teaches easy techniques for connections and capitals. Cursive Warm-Ups facilitate easy transition from printing to cursive. Lesson plans incorporate letter review with words and sentences. Activity pages combine handwriting instruction with paragraph, poem, composition, and language arts activities. 94 pages, softcover.

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.

Cursive Alphabet Desk Strips
Place these desk strips on student desks as a visual cue for letter formation. Each sheet has 4 desk strips. Strips are 10.5" x 2".

Cursive Wall Cards
Black and white cards promote correct cursive letter formations. Includes 17 letter cards, each 11" x 8.5".

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").

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.

Specifications
Manufacturer Name Handwriting Without Tears
Assembly Required No
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Product Use
Product Use/Directions Students using Handwriting Without Tears have high end-of-year scores on foundation printing and cursive skills, making them well prepared for the demands to produce written work in today’s classrooms.

HWT program follows research that states children learn more effectively by actively doing, and by using the different senses. The unique physical approach addresses posture, grip, and paper positioning.

It's a fact:
  • Research shows that handwriting is a foundational skill that can influence student’s reading, writing, language use, and critical thinking (Saperstein Associates 2012).
  • When children practice printing by hand, their neural activity is far more enhanced and “adult-like” (Bounds 2010).
  • Research states that learning how to write by hand is a necessary motor exercise (Saperstein Associates 2012; James and Gauthier 2006; James 2012; Berninger 2012).
  • Children consistently do better writing with a pen. They write more and they write faster (Berninger 2009).
Documents
Documents
Common Core State Standards

Correlations for ELA

Correlations for Math
Did You Know
Did You Know Why the Program Works

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.

Warnings
Choking Hazard No
Sterile No