Building the Foundation for Literacy Success

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Letter from the CEO Welcome to the NEW 2022 edition of Handwriting Without Tears! This year, our program's lineup has been expanded with new digital components and an emergent writing Pre-K solution designed to help you prepare students with foundational skills they'll cherish their entire lives.

The traditional classroom has seen its share of changes over the past year. Educators are facing new challenges each day while embracing new norms for learning. Our primary job at Learning Without Tears is to ensure that educators can meet the needs of students. That's why we've developed innovative digital enhancements for Handwriting Without Tears, including an Interactive Digital Teaching Tool and Student App. Now you can reach students with effective pre-writing, handwriting, and writing instruction regardless of whether you are teaching remotely or in a classroom environment. To gauge the success of your instruction, you can turn to our Screener of Handwriting Proficiency, the industry's leading handwriting assessment and observation tool.

No matter what challenges arise this year, please know that our team is here to support you, your students, and the families counting on you.

Sincerely,

Terry Nealon, CEO

What’s Inside Handwriting – the Foundation of Literacy Success . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Handwriting Without Tears (Pre-K–5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 HWT Integrated Print and Digital Solution (K–5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Why it Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Student Edition Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Program Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Manipulatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Readiness (Pre-K) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Emergent Writing (Pre-K) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Manipulatives and Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Activity Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Handwriting Assessment (K–5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Building Writers (K–5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Professional Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 School-to-Home Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

The Foundation of Literacy Success Handwriting is essential. When students practice letter formations, they create the foundation for reading and writing skills they will use throughout their lives.

The research is clear—handwriting can influence student’s reading, writing, language use, and critical thinking.* Without explicit handwriting instruction, students are missing a vital literacy building block. *Saperstein Associates, 2012

A strong handwriting foundation creates literacy success!

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Handwriting (K–5)

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Child-friendly, simple language makes letter formation easier.

Double lines make it easy for children to place letters correctly and make them the right size.

Workbooks are lefty-friendly, providing models on the left and right.

Also available as a digital student edition!

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INTERACTIVE DIGITAL TEACHING TOOL The digital teaching tool supports teachers online with the research-backed resources they need to ensure student success.

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Handwriting (K–5)

Manipulative Wood Pieces Set for Capital Letters (Pre-K–K)

Roll–A–Dough® (Pre-K)

Children learn capital formations and size, shape, and

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position words and concepts. This set includes 8 Big Lines, 6 Big Curves, 6 Little Lines, and 6 Little Curves.

numbers! Use the blue tray for sand, shaving cream, or rice for additional practice.

KINDERGARTEN Stamp and See Screen® (Pre-K) Mat for Wood Pieces (Pre-K–K)

Build capitals and numbers using “Wood Piece” stamps.

Children who’ve mastered guided letter formation with

Magnetic, chalk-like writing tool helps develop fine

Capital Letter Cards progress to building letters on the Mat for Wood Pieces. The smiley face on the top left corner of the Mat reminds them where to start.

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The Handwriting Without Tears manipulatives are proven to stimulate and strengthen visual, tactile, kinesthetic, and auditory learning styles while improving lesson understanding and comprehension.

Slate Chalkboard (Pre-K–1) Teach and remediate capitals and numbers by reinforcing top-to-bottom, left-to-right directionality to prevent and eliminate reversals.

GRADE 4+ Pencils for Little Hands (K–2) Promote proper grip and fine motor skills. These 4" golf pencils with erasers are perfect for little hands.

Blackboard with Double Lines (K–4+) Teach students how to make and place all letters on double lines in both printing and cursive using the Wet-Dry-Try method.

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Readiness (Pre-K)

Meet Mat Ma To make the transition to writing more seamless, children must master important readiness skills. Mat Man can help!

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Bring your Pre-K and kindergarten classrooms to life with everyone’s favorite buildable friend, Mat Man! Made from Wood Pieces and the blue Mat, Mat Man embodies our unique approach to drawing with multisensory activities and strategies that help young learners develop strong drawing and cognitive skills.

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Children who receive Mat Man instruction demonstrate improved Draw-A-Person (DAP) test scores by honing their body awareness, drawing, and building skills.* *This study was conducted by Occupational Therapist Geeta Bhojwani during the 2006–2007 school year in Head Start preschool classrooms in the Green Bay, Wisconsin area.

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Children sit in a circle as the teacher builds Mat Man on the floor using the Handwriting Without Tears Mat and Wood Pieces, all while singing the Mat Man song.

1. T eacher gives Mat Man body parts to the children, who then build Mat Man piece by piece.

2. Classroom accessories, such as bottle caps for eyes and nose, can make Mat Man more personalized.

3. Children watch as teacher draws a large Mat Man on a board or easel, each part in order.

4. Children take turns drawing Mat Man and adding other details to their drawings.

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Emergent Writing (Pre-K)

Introduction Children will learn social-emotional and readiness skills, develop fine motor skills, learn to hold a crayon, and explore with manipulatives like Wood Pieces to help them learn body parts, position words, and the vocabulary to describe capital letters and numbers.

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These incremental learning stages lead students to engaging, emergent writing activities in My First School Book, where they learn how to trace and write capital letters, and progress to My First Lowercase Book.

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Our developmentally appropriate Pre-K program builds emergent writing skills, giving students a strong early literacy foundation and preparing them for the rigors of elementary school and the years ahead.

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Using manipulatives for emerging writing skills makes children excited to learn, and helps them develop a love of letter building. Teachers love the diversity of skills that can be taught with each one and how they incorporate a hands-on experience.

•P urposeful manipulatives help children progress from tracing letters to writing their names • Uses play-based techniques, like music and dance, to teach skills • Digital components enhance learning remotely • Equitable materials in English and Spanish WOOD PIECES SET FOR CAPITAL LETTERS • Teaches the four, key letter formation steps for all capital letters • Children learn to assemble capital letters through imitation • This foundation skill aids in all future letter and number formations • Made of polished wood, the Wood Pieces are perfect for little hands

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Manipulative PRE-K INTERACTIVE TEACHING TOOL

Experience a new digital platform for managing and teaching lessons from our activity books and teacher’s guides with multimedia assets, including digital letter and number formations, instructional videos, music, and more. The Pre-K Interactive Teaching Tool reduces teacher prep time and is compatible with any whiteboard or projector.

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Wet-Dry-Try Bring the multisensory genius of our Slate Chalkboard and Blackboard with Double Lines to your iPad.

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es and Tools WOOD PIECES SET FOR CAPITAL LETTERS Children learn capital formations as they imitate the teacher piece by piece. Use the set for teaching size, shape, position words, and concepts, too!

MAT FOR WOOD PIECES Children who’ve mastered guided letter formation with Capital Letter Cards progress to building letters on the Mat for Wood Pieces.

STAMP AND SEE SCREEN® Build capitals and numbers using “Wood Piece” stamps. Magnetic, chalk-like writing tool helps develop grip.

FLIP CRAYONS® Unique crayons promote proper grip and fine motor skills by flipping the crayon.

NEW! MAGNETIC LOWERCASE & BLACKBOARD SET Engage children with fun, hands-on literacy and pre-writing activities. Help children learn letter size and placement, while boosting alphabet knowledge and phonemic awareness.

ROLL-A-DOUGH LETTERS® It’s fun to roll and cut dough snakes to make capitals and numbers! Use the blue tray for sand, shaving cream, or rice for additional practice.

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K–5 Handwriting

Handwriting Assessment The Screener of Handwriting Proficiency is a free, easy-to-administer whole-class or student-level assessment tool that provides insightful data on students’ handwriting skills and areas in need of remediation.

Educators can use the Screener to identify and measure specific skill areas where students need print or cursive instruction and intervention throughout the year.

•S core online and instantly receive individual, whole-class, and grade reports • I ncludes personalized learning strategies targeted to the students’ areas of need

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Building Writers (K–5)

Writing Go beyond building letter formation skills with structured writing practice.

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Building Writers supports any writing block or independent writing practice.

•D evelopmental approach to writing •R eady-to-teach lessons for reduced teacher prep time •N arrative, information, and opinion/argument writing practice

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Professional Development We empower educators with expert-led professional development sessions — both on-site and online — that impart effective tools, strategies, and techniques to help students make handwriting a natural, automatic skill.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES (SCHOOL-BASED IMPLEMENTATION) GETTING STARTED This foundational tier provides your educators with the instruction, strategies, knowledge, and skills needed for beginning curriculum implementation.

TARGETED Builds on the foundations by targeting specific instructional outcomes based on curriculum usage and educator-identified personalized learning needs.

ADVANCED This comprehensive tier dives deep, building on targeted implementation with student lesson observation and individualized or group coaching, addressing advanced differentiation, modification, and remediation.

PROFESSIONAL LEARNING EMERGENT WRITING (PRE-K) Discover proven, engaging multisensory strategies to foster early writing skills. Educators will experience how to use music, hands-on manipulatives, and technology to help children develop emergent writing.

PRINT (GRADES K–2) Learn how to implement our integrated print and digital curriculum that uses engaging multisensory techniques and research-based methods to help students begin to master handwriting.

CURSIVE (GRADES 2–5) Get an introduction to our comprehensive, easy-to-use cursive curriculum. Our developmentally appropriate teaching order and vertical style ensure cursive success.

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School-to-Home Connections Research consistently shows that strong school-to-home connections help children build self-esteem, curiosity, and motivation to learn new things. Home and school are the two most important places for young children. When teachers and families work together, everyone wins.

•M ake sure you have scheduled communications with families, using emails, letters, virtual meetings, or even podcasts.

• S hare important assessment information about your student’s progress.

• S hare curriculum with families so they can explore resources available to them.

• S end home letter charts so families are using the same words for letter formation as the teacher.

• E ncourage families to read together consistently and help children recognize letters all around them. Point out letters in signs and logos— wherever you go.

•S inging in the classroom? Share the music you are learning with families, so they can sing at home too.

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