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Why Teach Handwriting? When students succeed, everyone succeeds. Handwriting is a fundamental skill that children need to participate in school and to succeed in life. In fact, school districts across the country increasingly recognize the value of handwriting instruction as a pillar in reading development. Handwriting is a core foundational skill that helps children to develop strong letter recognition and letter-sound knowledge for reading and spelling. Writing helps young students make the connection between the way a letter looks and the way a letter sounds. Writing words and sentences helps develop the orthographic memory needed for word recognition and recall. Handwriting goes beyond reading development; It is the primary method of communication for students and the lens through which teachers evaluate their work. Students spend up to 60% of their academic day engaged in work requiring legible handwriting*. A student’s academic progress is tethered to their ability to convey their thoughts in writing, fluently and legibly.

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Developing automaticity with handwriting, forming the letters and placing them on paper without having to think about how to do it, allows students to focus on the quality of their content and creative expression instead of spending time struggling with the mechanics of handwriting. For students who have a strong foundation in handwriting, success is always within reach, even as they move beyond the classroom. So, what’s the key to mastering handwriting? An explicit, dedicated, developmentally appropriate handwriting curriculum that helps students develop the motor and cognitive skills that help them succeed in school and in life. It’s about finding the balance between the muscles, the mind, and the mechanics, creating a harmonious symphony that results in legible, confident handwriting.

A student’s academic progress is tethered to their ability to convey their thoughts in writing, fluently and legibly. *For a full list of research references, visit lwtears.com/research

A Dedicated Solution What makes us the right choice for Administrators, Educators, and Parents? Through 40 years of experience, we have evolved handwriting to meet educator needs and to always provide the best handwriting program available. Occupational Therapists (OTs) developed the program and teachers informed and enhanced it. We have a profound understanding of what truly works in developing foundational skills in a dedicated handwriting program. Schools and school districts and their educators choose Handwriting Without Tears® because they know it works.

Driven by Science, Occupational Therapists, and Teachers

We’ve invested time and resources to understand handwriting’s role in successful reading and the research to understand what children most need to develop this foundational skill. In staying current, we develop timely, unique, and effective teaching materials. Our approach seamlessly integrates handwriting instruction with phonics. Result:

The curriculum is inspiring for teachers and delivers excellent results for students.

Easily Integrates with Literacy Curricula

Lessons include differentiation, support with the language used for ELLs, articulation videos, and grade-appropriate ELA enhancements to build knowledge, vocabulary and other reading and writing skills. Result:

Children progress quickly and are more proficient with applied writing across all subjects.

Multisensory Activities Develop Motor Skills Our program incorporates hands-on materials and multisensory activities that help students develop fine and gross motor skills for handwriting. Each lesson includes a unique activity that is relevant to the particular lesson. Result:

Children not only build motor skills essential in achieving handwriting fluency but also find themselves more engaged in handwriting lessons.

Intuitive and Customizable

The Interactive Digital Teaching Tool™ makes it simple for teachers to launch lessons without prep time. Teachers use the expanded explicit language for teaching, found both in the digital and print Teacher’s Guides. Adapt the lesson sequence or components to suit your classroom needs. Use the Scope and Sequence and core crosswalks to customize to your core. Result:

Educators are confident in delivering effective lessons and students thrive using the program.

Timely Educator Support

A rich array of Professional Learning options are available to all users. One example is just-in-time microlearning, embedded in the Interactive Digital Teaching Tool to provide just the right amount of support when and where it’s needed. Result:

Educators with various experience levels build their knowledge, competencies, and mindsets to help more children by empowering efficient teaching and effective student learning. LWTears.com

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Our friendly, easy-to-remember language and illustrations are intentionally simple, using words that resonate with what children already know and understand.

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Size and Placement of Letters on Lines

We start by teaching children about size and how letters fit together. Then we place them on lines. Double lines serve as a pivotal element in our approach, aiding children in placing letters correctly and effectively. We transition to teaching children how to place letters on other styles of paper they use in real life - four lines, single lines, and no lines. Result:

Double lines make it easy for children to learn and students using Handwriting Without Tears® can place letters on all styles of lines and paper.

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Children enjoy memorable and exciting lessons with instructions they can all clearly understand, regardless of background.

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Kick Start Kindergarten Scope and Seuence Each lesson begins with a warm-up activity: Social Skills, Directionality, Music for Handwriting Readiness, Letter Size and Shape with Wood Pieces, Position with Wood Pieces, Building Capital Letters, Wet-Dry-Try for Capitals and Lowercase Letters, Mystery Letters, Hand Activity for Lowercase Letters, Letters to Words Blackboard Set, Air Writing, Step-by-Step Forming Letters, Music and Movement for Letters, Sentence Skills

MULTISENSORY

LETTER INTRODUCTION AND PRACTICE Lessons and Practice with Letters, Words, and Sentences

Getting Started: Recognize and identify capitals Practice Pencil Grip Pencil Pick-ups Practice Aim and Scribble Print your name

PROGRESS MONITORING

Frog Jump Capitals: F E D P  R N 

Starting Corner Capitals: H K L U V W X  Z

Center Starting Capitals: C O Q  S A  T 

Cumulative review

Introduce: Same as Size and Capitals placement and t: of lowercase c letters o s v w t

Magic c letters: a d 

More Vowels:  i e

Transition Group: l k y 

Teacher check capitals and lowercase letters Review of letters, words, and sentences

Diver Letters: p r n m h b

Final Group: f  x z

Numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Review of numbers

CONNECTIONS TO LITERACY READING CONNECTION

WRITING CONNECTION

Phonological Awareness: Words in Sentences, Initial Sounds, Syllables, Rhyme

Foundations: Capitalization, End punctuation

Print Concepts: Letters, Words, Numbers

Kinds of Words: Names, Build Sentences

Phonemic Awareness: Onset-rime, Initial Sounds, Syllables, Segmenting CVC Words, Long and Short Vowels, Blending

Narrative Writing: Imaginary Stories, Story Starters

Phonics: Guess a Letter, Building and Blending CVC Words, Final Sounds and Letters

Informational Writing: Gather Facts, Facts vs. Opinions

Vocabulary: Categories, Synonyms, Multiple-meaning, Related Words Word Recognition: High-frequency Words Alphabet Knowledge: Guess a Letter, Capital and Lowercase Pairs, Identify Name and Sound

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KNOWLEDGE BUILDING Science, Math, Social Studies, Music, Art

Opinion Writing: Developing and Sharing Opinions

Letters and Numbers for Me Scope and Seuence Each lesson begins with a warm-up activity: Social Skills, Directionality, Position with Wood Pieces, Music and Movement, Building Capital Letters, Air Writing, Step-by-Step Letter Formations, Mystery Letters, Wet-Dry-Try Lowercase Letters, Hand Activity Forming Letters, Sentences Skills, Letters to Words Blackboard Set, Music and Movement for Letters

MULTISENSORY

LETTER INTRODUCTION AND PRACTICE Lessons and Practice with Letters, Words, and Sentences

Getting Started: Posture and paper placement Pencil Skills Aim and Doodle Name

Frog Jump Capitals: F E D P  R N 

Numbers: 1, 2, 3

PROGRESS MONITORING

Starting Corner Capitals: H K L U V W X  Z

Center Starting Capitals: C O Q  S A  T 

Numbers: 4, 5

Numbers: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Learn and Self-check Capitals Check for Cumulative review self-monitoring

Introduce: Size and placement of lowercase letters

Magic c letters: a d 

More Vowels:  i e

Same as capitals: c o s v w t

Transitioning Group: l k y 

Diver Letters: p r n m h b

Final Group: f  x z

Writing Activities: Rhymes Words Labels Sentences Syllables Punctuation Questions and Answers Paragraphs Poems

Self-check lowercase letters Cumulative review of letters, size and placement

Review of letters, words and sentences

CONNECTIONS TO LITERACY READING CONNECTION

WRITING CONNECTION

Print Concepts: Names, Letters, Words, Sentences

Foundations: Capitalization, End Punctuation

Phonological Awareness: Syllables, Rhymes, Words in Sentences

Kinds of Words: Names, Build Sentences

Phonemic Awareness: Initial, Medial, Final Sounds; Short or long vowel sounds; Onset-rime; Sound manipulation; Initial sound substitution; Blend and segment words

Narrative Writing: Shared Stories, Story Starters

Phonics: Word Chains, Orthographic mapping, Short Vowel Sounds, Segment and read words, Digraphs, Reading words and sentences Vocabulary: Categories, Shades of Meaning, Descriptive Words

KNOWLEDGE BUILDING Science, Math, Social Studies, Music, Art

Informational Writing: Share Key Facts, Labeling, Procedural Opinion Writing: Developing Opinions

Word Recognition: High-frequency Words, Signs

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My Printing Book Scope and Seuence Each lesson begins with a warm-up activity: Music and Movement, Air Writing, Hand Activity for Lowercase Letters, Wet-Dry-Try for Letters, Mystery Letters, Forming Letters with Letters to Words Blackboard Set, Step-by-Step Forming Letters, Sentence Skills

MULTISENSORY

LETTER INTRODUCTION AND PRACTICE Lessons and Practice with Letters, Words, and Sentences

Getting Started: Practice Pencil Grip Learn Paper Placement Pencil Pick-ups Aim and Doodle Print Your Name

PROGRESS MONITORING

Learn and Check for self-monitoring

Capitals: Frog Jump Capitals Practice Frog Jump Capitals

Introduce: Size and Placement of Lowercase Letters

Starting Corner Capitals Center Starting Capitals

Review of Capitals and Numbers

Same as Capitals and t: c o s v w t

Magic c letters: a d 

More Vowels:  i e

Transition Group: l k y 

Diver Letters: p r n m h b

Final Group: f  x z

Writing Activities: Words Poems

Numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Sentences Paragraphs Abbreviations Syllables Capitals

Self-check Capitals, Lowercase Letters, Words, Sentences, Paragraphs and Numbers Cumulative review of letters, size, and placement

CONNECTIONS TO LITERACY READING CONNECTION Print Concepts: Letters, Words, Sentences Phonemic Awareness: Segmenting and Blending, Long and Short Vowels, Initial Sounds, Sound Substitution, Dropping Intial Sounds, Dropping Final Sounds Phonics: Alphabet Knowledge, Consonant Blends, Grapheme-phoneme Correspondance, Long and Short Vowels, Rhyme, Digraphs, Trigraphs, Spelling, Syllables, Hard and Soft Consonants, Silent Letters, r-Controlled Vowels Word Study, Word Recognition, and Vocabulary: Compound Words, Highfrequency Words, Multiple-meaning Words, Syllables, Inflectional Endings Fluency: Types of Sentences, Expression, Pausing, Self-correcting Comprehension: Details, Main Idea

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WRITING CONNECTION Foundations: Capitalization, Punctuation Marks, Build Sentences, Sentence Structure, Paragraph Structure

KNOWLEDGE BUILDING Science, Math, Social Studies, Music, Art

Grammar: Nouns, Verbs, Pronouns, Adjectives, Conjunctions Narrative Writing: Imaginary Stories, Realistic Stories Informational Writing: Diagrams, Gather Facts Opinion Writing: Developing and Writing Opinions, Opinions vs. Facts

Printing Power Scope and Seuence Each lesson begins with a warm-up activity: Music and Movement, Air Writing, Hand Activity for Lowercase Letters, Wet-Dry-Try for Letters, Mystery Letters, Step-by-Step Forming Letters, Sentence Skills

MULTISENSORY

LETTER INTRODUCTION AND PRACTICE Lessons and Practice with Letters, Words, and Sentences

Getting Started: Practice Pencil Grip Learn Paper Placement

Capitals: Frog Jump Capitals Practice Frog Jump Capitals

Pencil Pick-ups

Starting Corner Capitals

Print Your Name

Center Starting Capitals

Introduce: Size and Placement of Lowercase Letters

Same as Capitals and t: c o s v w t

Magic c letters: a d 

More Vowels:  i e

Transition Group: l k y 

Diver Letters: p r n m h b

Final Group: f  x z

Writing Activities: Words Sentences

Numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Paragraphs Poems Labels Friendly Letters Syllables Capitals Abbreviations

PROGRESS MONITORING

Learn and Check for self-monitoring

Review of Capitals and Numbers

Self-monitoring Capitals, Lowercase Letters, Words, Sentences, and Numbers Cumulative review of letters, size, and placement

CONNECTIONS TO LITERACY READING CONNECTION Phonemic Awareness: Phonemic Awareness: Initial Sounds, Initial Sound Substitution, Chaining Phonics: Alphabet Knowledge, Consonant Blends, Grapheme-phoneme Correspondance, Long and Short Vowels, Rhyme, Digraphs, Trigraphs, Spelling, Syllables, Hard and Soft Consonants, Silent Letters, r-Controlled Vowels Word Study, Word Recognition, and Vocabulary: Homophones, Prefixes/ Suffixes/Roots, Morphology, Latin Roots, Compound Words, Multiple-meaning Words, Synonyms, Homographs, Contractions, Inflectional Endings, Related Words Fluency: Types of Sentences, Expression, Pausing Comprehension: Details, Inferences, Main Idea, Similarities and Differences

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WRITING CONNECTION Grammar: Nouns, Proper Nouns, Verbs, Pronouns, Adjectives, Conjunctions, Capitalization, Punctuation Marks, Paragraph Structure

KNOWLEDGE BUILDING Science, Math, Social Studies, Music, Art

Narrative Writing: Imaginary Stories, Realistic Stories, Personal Narratives, Dialogue, Description Words, Poems Informational Writing: Diagrams, Gather Facts Opinion Writing: Developing and Writing Opinions, Opinions vs. Facts

Cursive Kickoff Scope and Seuence Each lesson begins with a warm-up activity or introduction: Music and Movement, Air Writing, Wet-Dry-Try for Letters, Step-by-Step Forming Letters, Letter Stories Cursive: Connection Inspection (Cursive)

MULTISENSORY Getting Started: Pencil Grip

LETTER INTRODUCTION AND PRACTICE Lessons and Practice with Letters, Words, and Sentences

Print Same as Capitals: Cc Oo Paper Placement Ss Pencil Vv Pick-Ups for Grip Ww with Doodling Print Your Name

Line placement and letter size

Print Letters, Words Cursive warm and Sentences: up exercises Tt Aa Dd Gg Uu i Ll Kk Yy Jj

Pp Rr Nn Mm Hh Bb Ff Qq Xx Zz

Demonstrate name writing Cursive Lowercase Letters with Connections: c a d g h

Cursive Lowercase Letters, Words and Sentences: t p e l f

Cursive Lowercase Letters, Words and Sentences: u y I j

Cursive Lowercase Letters, Words and Sentences: k r s

Tricky Connections (Tow Truck Letters): o w b v m n

Cursive Lowercase Letters, Words and Sentences x q z

Cursive Writing Activities: Capital and Lowercase Partners

Numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Letter Review Proper Nouns Sentences Paragraphs Poems Dates and Abbreviations Friendly Letter

PROGRESS MONITORING

Self-monitoring Cumulative checks

Cumulative practice with capitals Self-monitoring Cumulative checks with practice cursive, print-to-cursive, and spelling

Review of words, sentences, paragraphs, and numbers

CONNECTIONS TO LITERACY READING CONNECTION Phonemic Awareness: Initial Sounds, Initial Sound Substitution, Chaining Phonics: Alphabet Knowledge, Grapheme-phoneme Correspondance, Long and Short Vowels, Rhyme, Digraphs, Hard and Soft Consonants, Silent Letters, Open and Closed Syllables, Syllable Division, High Frequency Words Word Study, Word Recognition, and Vocabulary: Homophones, Prefixes/ Suffixes/Roots, Morphology, Related Words, Multiple-meaning Words, Antonyms Fluency: Types of Sentences, Expression, Pausing Comprehension: Details, Inferences, Main Idea, Similarities and Differences

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WRITING CONNECTION Grammar: Capitalization, Punctuation Marks, Nouns, Verb Tenses, Pronouns, Adjectives, Conjunctions, Sentence and Paragraph Structure

KNOWLEDGE BUILDING Science, Math, Social Studies, Music, Art, Culture, Economics, Operations, Plants, and more

Narrative Writing: Imaginary Stories, Personal Narratives, Dialogue, Description Words, Poems Informational Writing: Gather and Share Facts Opinion Writing: Developing and Writing Opinions, Opinions vs. Facts

Cursive Handwriting Scope and Seuence Each lesson begins with an introduction or a warm-up activity: Air Writing, Step-by-Step Forming Letters, Wet-Dry-Try for Letters, Connection Inspection

MULTISENSORY Getting Started: Practice Pencil Grip LETTER INTRODUCTION AND PRACTICE Lessons and Practice with Letters, Words, and Sentences

PROGRESS MONITORING

Learn Posture and Paper Placement Cursive Warm-up Exercises Demonstrate Cursive Name Writing

Learn and Check for self-monitoring

Lowercase Letters with Connections: c a d  h

Lowercase Letters, Words and Sentences: t p e l f

Lowercase Letters, Words, and Sentences:  y i  k r s

Tricky Connections (Tow Truck Letters): o w b v m n

Lowercase, Letters, Words, and Sentences: x  z

Self-check Cursive Lowercase Letters, Words, and Sentences Cursive to Cursive Print to Cursive Spelling to Cursive

Cursive Capitals: A–Z

Writing Activities: Poems

Capital Connections

Words

Proper Nouns

Punctuation

Paragraphs Friendly Letter Letters Sentences Names

Self-check Cursive Capitals

Self-check Cursive Letters, Words, Sentences, and Paragrahs

CONNECTIONS TO LITERACY READING CONNECTION Phonics: Digraphs, Letter Sounds, Silent Letters, Syllables, Vowel Sounds and Teams Word Study: Compound Words, Homophones, Plural Nouns, Word Endings Morphology: Roots, Prefixes, Suffixes Vocabulary: Comparatives and Superlatives, Context Clues, Figurative Language, Homographs, Multiple-meaning Words, Regular and Irregular Verbs, Word Meaning

WRITING CONNECTION Grammar: Capitalization, Proper Nouns, Adjectives, Conjunctions, Contractions, Nouns, Possesives, Verbs,

KNOWLEDGE BUILDING Science, Math, Social Studies, Music, Art, Culture, Economics, Operations, Plants, and more

Informational Writing: Autobiographical Paragraph, Details, Facts, Text Features

Comprehension: Ask and Answer Questions

Narrative Writing: Alliteration, Descriptive Language, Genres

Fluency: Accuracy, Expression, Intonation

Opinion Writing: Opinion Statement Punctuation: Apostrophes, Commas, Quotations Writing: Building Sentences and Paragraphs

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Cursive Success Scope and Seuence Each lesson begins with a warm-up activity: Pencil Skills, Air Writing, Step-by-Step Forming Letters, Wet-Dry-Try for Letters, Connection Inspection

MULTISENSORY

LETTER INTRODUCTION AND PRACTICE Lessons and Practice with Letters, Words, and Sentences

PROGRESS MONITORING

Getting Started: Practice Pencil Grip Learn Posture and Paper Placement Cursive Warm-up Exercises Demonstrate Cursive Name Writing

Learn and Check for self-monitoring

Capital and Lowercase Letters with Connections: Cc Aa Dd Gg Hh

Lowercase Letters, Words, and Sentences: Tt Pp Ee Ll Ff

Lowercase Letters, Words, and Sentences: Uu Yy Ii Jj Kk Rr Ss

Tricky Connections Lowercase (Tow Truck Letters, Words, Letters): and Sentences: Oo Xx Ww Qq Bb Zz Vv Mm Nn

Self-check Cursive Lowercase Letters, Words, and Sentences Cursive to Cursive Print to Cursive Spelling to Cursive

Cursive Capitals: A–Z

Writing Activities: Sentences Words Paragraphs Mnemonics Acronyms Poems Phrases Friendly Letters

Self-check Cursive Capitals

Self-check Cursive Sentences and Paragrahs

CONNECTIONS TO LITERACY READING CONNECTION Phonics: Letter Sounds, ough, Syllables, Vowel Digraphs, Vowel Teams Word Study: Homophones, Irregualar Verbs Morphology: Roots, Prefixes, Suffixes Vocabulary: Antonyms, Context Clues, Idioms, Multiple-meaning Words, Synonymns, Word Meaning Comprehension: Compare and Contrast, Descriptive Language, Making Inferences, Metaphors, Similes, Summarize, Text Types Fluency: Expression, Intonation, Pace

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WRITING CONNECTION Grammar: Capitalization, Adjectives, Adverbs, Conjunctions, Nouns, Prepositional Phrases, Pronouns, Question Words, Sentence Structure, Verbs Informational Writing: Facts, Linking Words and Phrases, Text Types, Topic Sentence

KNOWLEDGE BUILDING Science, Math, Social Studies, Music, Art, Civics, Data, Economics, Geometry, History, How Things Work, and more

Narrative Writing: Fiction Genres, Plot Elements, Sensory Details Opinion Writing: Claims, Facts, Reasons Punctuation: Apostrophes, Commas, Quotations Writing: Building Sentences and Paragraphs

Can-Do Cursive Scope and Sequence INTRODUCTION

Many lessons begin with a short introduction that provides formation tips or encourages practice with the digital Formation Tools. Multisensory Activity lessons are also available for more practice: Formation Tools: Step-by-Step Forming Letters,Wet-Dry-Try for Letters, Interactive Support, review from previously taught lessons Getting Started: Introduce Cursive t, h, e, i, Writing with Signatures p, u, n, s Cursive Warm-Ups

LETTER INTRODUCTION AND PRACTICE

Cursive Lowercase and Capital Letters c, a, d, g r, l, f

t, h, e, i in Capitals and Sentences

c, a, d, g in Capitals and Paragraph

Lowecase and Capital Letters

p, u , n, s in Capitals and Paragraph

r, l, f in Capitals and Sentence

Learn and Check for self-monitoring

Self-check Cursive Lowercase Letters, Words, and Sentences

Self-check Cursive Lowercase Letters, Words, and Sentences Print to Cursive Make Up Sentences

My Name in Cursive

PROGRESS MONITORING

m, y, k

j, z, x, q

m, y, k in Capitals and Paragraph

j, z, x, q in Capitals and Sentences

Idioms Tow Truck Letters: o, w, b, v Tricky Connections o, w, b, v in Captials and Paragraphs

Self-check Cursive Lowercase Letters, Words, and Sentences Print to Cursive Make Up Sentences

Self-check Cursive Lowercase Letters Make Up Sentences

Developing Personal Cursive Style Writing and Developing Your Signature

Grammar: Punctuation That’s My Conjunctions Style - Fast Contractions and Neat Interjections Signatures Abbreviations Parts of Speech Common and Proper Nouns Comparatives and Supperlatives Verb Tenses Adverbs Pronouns Irregular Verbs Prepositional Phrases

Self-check Cursive Connections and Signatures

Self-check Cursive Words, Sentences, and Paragraphs

The Writer’s Notebook: Poetry Diary Autobiography Paragraph Character Sketch Short Story Play Book Review Opinion Writing Narrative Writing Informational Writing

Self-check Cursive Words, Sentences, and Paragraphs

CONNECTIONS TO LITERACY LITERACY CONNECTION Grammar: Adjectives, Apostrophes, Commas, Conjunctions, Interjections, Online Resources, Quotation Marks, Sentence Structure, Subjects and Predicates, Subject-Verb Agreement, Verb Tense

TECH CONNECTION Grammar Tools: Online Resources, Pronouns, Word Processing Features

Informational Writing: Ideas and Details, Signal Words, Self-monitoring, Topic Planning

Keyboarding: Digital Citizenship, Words and Sentences, Keyboarding, Written to Digital Automaticity

Literature Comprehension: Figurative Language, Inferences, Purpose and Audience, Sequence of Events, Visual Elements

Note-Taking Tools: Dictation Support, Mind Mapping, Multimedia Notes, Visual Notetaking

Morphology: Affixes, Base Words, Latin Word Parts, Suffixes

Process Writing Tools: Brainstorming, Revising and Editing

Narrative Writing: Descriptive Language, Dialogue, Sequence of Events Opinion Writing: Organization, Reasons and Evidence Vocabulary: Academic Words and Language, Adverbs, Homophones, Idioms, Multiplemeaning Words, Prepositions, Similes and Metaphors, Synonymns LWTears.com

Cursive and Beyond Scope and Sequence INTRODUCTION

LETTER INTRODUCTION AND PRACTICE

My Name in Cursive Lowercase and Capital Letters

Cursive Lowercase and Capital Letters t, h, e, i,

c, a, d, g

p, u, n, s

r, l, f

t, h, e, i in Capitals and Sentences

c, a, d, g in Capitals and Paragraph

p, u , n, s in Capitals and Paragraph

r, l, f in Capitals and Sentence

m, y, k

j, z, x, q

m, y, k in Capitals and Paragraph

j, z, x, q in Capitals and Sentences

Idioms Tow Truck Letters: o, w, b, v Tricky Connections o, w, b, v in Captials and Paragraphs

Developing Personal Cursive Style Writing and Developing Your Signature

Greek and Latin: Greek and Latin Roots Prefixes, and Suffixes: Root Word Meanings Building Words With Roots Words Related to Science and Math

The Writer’s Notebook: Poetry Diary Autobiography Paragraph Character Sketch Short Story Play Book Review Opinion Writing Narrative Writing Informational Writing

Learn and Check for self-monitoring PROGRESS MONITORING

Self-check Cursive Lowercase Letters, Words, and Sentences

Print to Cursive

Make Up Sentences

Print to Cursive

Self-check Cursive Lowercase Letters Make Up Sentences

Self-check Cursive Connections and Signatures

Self-check Cursive Words, Sentences, and Paragraphs

CONNECTIONS TO LITERACY LITERACY CONNECTION Literature Comprehension: Visual Elements, Key Details Grammar: Adjectives, Interjections, Parts of Speech, Pronouns, Punctuation, Quotation Marks, Sentence Structure Informational Text Comprehension: Events, Ideas and Details, Graphic Elements, Online Resources, Organization, Topic Planning, Titles, Visual Analysis Morphology: Derivatives, Latin and Greek Word Parts, Suffixes Narrative Writing: Characters, Descriptive Language, Dialogue, Purpose and Audience, Sequence, Setting Vocabulary: Academic Language, Context Clues, Denotation and Connotation, Idioms, Multiple-meaning Words, Suffixes, Word Meaning, Word Relationships

TECH CONNECTION Keyboarding: Sentences and Paragraph Keyboarding, Words, Written to Digital Automaticity Digital Citizenship: Online Safety Grammar Tools: Word Processing Features Note-Taking Tools: Audio Recording, Dictation Support, Digital Notebooks, Mind Mapping, Multimedia Notes, Online Resources, Visual Notetaking Process Writing Tools: Brainstorming, Fact-checking, Revising and Editing

Opinion Writing: Linking Words and Phrases, Reasons and Evidence LWTears.com