Product & Professional Development 2020 Catalog

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Dear Educators, Meet the expanded Pre-K program from Learning Without Tears™.

Get Set for School® is a hands-on, research-based Pre-K program that combines purposeful play with multisensory strategies and developmentally appropriate lessons to meet early learning standards and get children ready for kindergarten, and all the possibilities ahead.

Get moving and learning, T here’s so much to see, T here’s puzzles, there’s numbers, and letters—from space to the sea, Let’s play, let’s sing, write our ABC s, It’s time for Pre-K! Oh, the possibilities!

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Get Set for School, the award-winning curriculum, features hands-on movement, interactive play, lively music, and child friendly teaching strategies to help young learners get ready for kindergarten.

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Get Set for School combines purposeful play with multisensory experiences creating a hands-on, developmentally appropriate, and research-based Pre-K program. Easy-to-implement, Get Set for School features engaging and effective resources, award-winning trade books, and age-appropriate digital apps.

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NEW! Pre-K Teacher’s Guide NEW! Get Set for School Pre-K Teacher’s Guide Set GRADE: Pre-K Code: TGPKGSS-21

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Multisensory Lessons with Hands-On Learning

Get Set for School two-volume Teacher's Guide Set (available in English and Spanish) provides comprehensive teaching strategies to help educators implement a scaffolded approach to instruction using targeted, explicit lessons that address each developmental learning domain. The step-by-step lessons integrate our unique manipulatives to bring literacy and learning alive in all Pre-K classrooms.

• Two-volume, spiral bound teacher's guide, over 600 pages

• Activities for My First School Book, My First Lowercase Book, My Book, and I Know My Numbers

• Weekly overview summaries

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LANGUAGE & LITERACY

Focus: Letter G and Number 6

Materials:

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Grouping: Small group

Build Sentences with Words

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1. Introduce G and its sound. G makes a /g/ sound in Gail, goat, gas, and goals. G makes a /j/ sound in George, gym, gentle, and giraffe.

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3. Tell children you are going to build sentences with words. Incorporate words that begin with g. For example, Goats eat grass. A color tile will represent each word.

Speak in 3+ word sentences

5. Children take turns placing color tiles on the Sound Around Box, as you tell them a sentence.

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Check for Understanding: Observe as children listen for and build sentences.

Can they say the sentence after they listen to the words?

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Build spoken words into a sentence

Demonstrate active listening

Position an object for use, placement, or release

Match 1:1, verbally count 1-10

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letter G, color words, goats, grass, green

Trace correctly, step by step, color and draw creatively

Support/ELL: Begin the activity with two-word action sentences. For example, I hop.

READINESS & WRITING Materials:

• Wood Pieces Set for Capital Letters • Capital Letter Card: Letter G • Mat for Wood Pieces (1 per child) • PreKTT, Music, “Where do You Start Your Letters?”

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4. Describe each step as you build the letter: Watch as I build G. Big Curve. Little Line up. Little Line across. We made G. 5. Now let’s build G on the Mat. Give each child a Mat to place right-side up. Repeat step four on the Mat using My Turn, Your Turn.

Sequence, demonstrate active listening Recognize and name capital letters, position capitals right side up, recognize distinct letter sounds Position an object for use, placement, or release, use visual cues to guide reaching for, grasping, and moving objects

6. It’s capital letter G!

Check for Understanding: Observe as children build the letter. Are they placing

the pieces correctly?

Support/ELL: Gather the correct pieces for each child and prompt the child to use the Big Curve first.

Take turns, remain engaged, listen/ follow directions Understand print has meaning Repeat words, say sentences, demonstrate understanding of word meaning

Vocabulary invite, visit, party, dinner, friends, family

Vocabulary letter G, capital letters, Big Curve, Little Line, right-side, up, top, bottom

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3. Chose what pages you want to complete with children. Use real objects to count. Sing nursery rhymes and songs.

4. Children count 6. Children color the pages. Children trace number 6.

Check for Understanding: Observe as children use the booklet. Do they make a

connection to number 6?

Support/ELL: Use real objects to make a connection to 6. Count 6 gummy bears.

Objective: Children learn two action verbs, say the words in sentences and use them in conversation.

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Invite means to ask people to come to something like a party. Visit means to go and spend time with family and friends.

2. Do Have Squawker go to a corner of the room. Have him invite several children to join him. Have him move and invite the remaining children to the other three corners. Have Squawker visit the children.

3. Say We invite friends. We visit friends.

4. Talk Squawker says: You can invite a friend to your house to play. What else can you invite a friend to do? You can visit family or friends for a special dinner. When do you visit family or friends?

Closing: Sing “Letters Together Make Words.”

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Check for Understanding: Observe as children discuss invite and visit. Do they understand the words, and can they say the sentences?

Support/ELL: Provide verbal and physical prompts as needed. Distribute pretend invitations.

Enrichment: Discuss. You can invite guests by sending an invitation. Have you sent an invitation?

Enrichment: Find objects around the room that begin with G.

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2. Give each child I Know My Numbers Booklet 6. Look how the Slate is on the front cover. Make a connection to number 6.

ORAL LANGUAGE

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3. Gather the Wood Pieces.

Multisensory Introduction: Sing “The Ant, the Bug and the Bee.”

six, count, ants, bug, bee

Grouping: Whole group, small group

2. Show letter card. Name the picture and “read” the word.

Review 6 Using I Know My Numbers

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Objective: Children learn how to build and sequence capital letters correctly.

Multisensory Introduction: Sing and move to “Where do You Start Your Letters?”

Grouping: Whole group, small group

Enrichment: Have children review numbers 1–6.

Enrichment: Challenge children by having them make up their own sentences as they place the color tiles for each word of their sentence.

Learn G Using Capitals with the Letter Cards & the Mat for Wood Pieces

Objective: Children learn math by coloring, counting, building, rhyming, singing, and playing using I Know My Numbers.

1. Review 6 and count 6 objects that begin with S.

2. Place the Sound Around Box and color tiles on table.

4. Demonstrate first: Goats (place color tile), eat (place another color tile), and grass (place another color tile). Have all children repeat the sentence.

Theme: Community & Play

NUMBERS & MATH

Objective: Children put a spoken word into a sentence.

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Pre-K Kit & Kaboodle Curriculum Kits

GRADE: Pre-K Code: GSSMF-KIT or GSSBSET-KIT Get everything you need for Pre-K success all in one kit! Kit includes everything from the Readiness & Writing Kit (p. 7), every literacy and math manipulative, 20 of My Book and I Know My Numbers each, a choice of 20 My First School Book or My First Book Set, 20 licenses of Get Set for School Student Learning Apps, and an annual license for PreKTT: The Pre-K nteractive Teaching Tool.

Includes Word Time™, Sound Around Box™, Line It Up™, A-B-C Touch & Flip® Cards, Mat Man Book Set, 4 Squares More Squares®, Tag Bags®, 1-2-3 Touch & Flip® Cards, Mix & Make Shapes™, Mat Man Hands, Magic C Bunny, Little Sponge Cubes, Little Chalk Bits, and the Get Set for School Pre-K Teacher's Guide Set.

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PreKTT: The Pre-K nteractive Teaching Tool GRADE: Pre-K Code: PREKTT-GSS*

PreKTT is a digital teaching 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. PreKTT reduces teacher prep time and is compatible with any whiteboard or projector. Get your children ready for kindergarten with fun readiness lessons! *Available with Readiness & Writing Pre-K Teacher's Guide.

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Child’s Part – Wet-Dry-Try Wet F with sponge. Say the words with the teacher. Wet F with finger the same way.

Dry F with crumbled towel. Say the words.

Try F with chalk. Say the words.

This is the F page. Do you know: F words? F names? F sounds? F month?

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Let’s find Fs on this page. Look. There’s a frog and a fish. Frog and fish start with F. How do frogs move? They jump. How do fish move? They swim. What do they use to move?

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Let’s color the frog and fish. Show different ways to color. You can also draw water or grass.

Talk about categories! The goose and the chick are birds. The bear and the buffalo are mammals. The ant and the ladybug are insects. But the octopus and the spider are in different families.

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Finger trace the F at the top of the page. (Say directions.)

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Let’s write F. Put the crayon on the Little Line across the middle.

Review already learned letters with chalk. You demonstrate on one Slate. Children imitate

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Talk about this page, part by part. The first part has a goose, the number 2, and a chick. Why are they together? The goose and the chick have two legs. Continue.

Observe if children follow directions. Do they complete the steps to make a letter?

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Two, four, six, eight! We’re counting legs so don’t be late! The chart sorts animals by the number of legs.

6: Big line down, Turn and curl up.

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Can students count the animals’ legs? Ask, How many legs does the chick have?

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Foundation Skills • Use correct top-to-bottom, left-to-right directionality for letters • Sequencing

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Oral Language • Respond to simple questions • Learn words linked to content being taught

Sensory Motor • Use same hand consistently to hold crayons • Use fingers to hold crayons

Foundation Skills • Sequencing • Use correct top-to-bottom, left-to-right directionality for numbers • Observe and sort

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Readiness & Writing Kits

GRADE: Pre-K Code: RWMF-KIT or RWBSET-KIT Stock up on everything you need for readiness and writing success. Kit includes a choice of either 20 My First School Book or My First Book Set, PreKTT: The Pre-K nteractive Teaching Tool, Wood Pieces Set for Capital Letters (6), Mat for Wood Pieces (5), Slate Chalkboard (5), Laminated Capital Letter Cards for Wood Pieces, Roll-A-Dough Letters® (5), Stamp & See Screen® (5), FLIP Crayons®, Pre-K Name Plates, Pre-K Color Wall Cards, Magnetic Lowercase & Blackboard Set (2), and the Readiness & Writing Pre-K Teacher's Guide.

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Multisensory Classroom Materials FLIP Crayons® GRADES: Pre-K–K

Code: FC (Tub of 206 crayons) Code: FGS20 (Gift set of 20 mini packs) Promote proper grip and fine motor skills by flipping our unique FLIP Crayons. 10 colors are included—2 colors and 2 points per crayon.

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Pre-K Color Wall Cards

GRADE: Pre-K Code: WCCPK Includes 36 (8.5" X 8.5") color cards that are perfect above the whiteboard, on bulletin boards, or during circle time. Use these cards as a letter or number of the week activity.

Pre-K Name Plates

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Magic C Bunny Puppet

GRADES: Pre-K–3 Code: BUN This fun puppet friend helps you teach the C stroke to begin capitals C, O, G, and Q and lowercase letters a, d, g, o, and q.

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GRADE: Pre-K Code: NP Teach children how to write their names in capitals and title case with these great visual aids. Includes 30 (11" x 3.5") name plates to use on tables, classroom job board, or cubbies.

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Learning With Music PRE-K

Music boosts memory, fosters body awareness, and builds motor skills in young children. Our albums include original, lively songs by Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer, back-to-back Grammy® Award winners for Best Children’s Album.

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All your favorite Learning Without Tears albums are available on iTunes.

Sing, Sound & Count With Me Music Album GRADE: Pre-K Code: COUNT

Reinforce language and number concepts with your children as they move and play to 29 upbeat songs.

Get Set for School Sing Along Music Album GRADE: Pre-K Code: SING Children sing, tap, and dance along to 25 songs to develop important social, cognitive, and physical skills.

Rock, Rap, Tap & Learn Music Album

GRADES: K–2 Code: ROCK Children develop self-esteem and body awareness as they rock along to 25 songs.

PreKTT is a one-stop digital teaching platform for managing and teaching Get Set for School Readiness & Writing lessons with multimedia assets, like digital letter and number formations, videos, music, and more. See p. 7.

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GRADE: Pre-K Code: WT-20 Boost children’s vocabulary and language skills with an exciting activity book featuring multisensory lessons that are aligned to the Oral Language lessons from the Get Set for School Pre-K Teacher’s Guide Set.

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1. Introduce G and its sound. G makes a /g/ sound in Gail, goat, gas, and goals. G makes a /j/ sound in George, gym, gentle, and giraffe.

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Build spoken words into a sentence

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4. Demonstrate first: Goats (place color tile), eat (place another color tile), and grass (place another color tile). Have all children repeat the sentence.

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Trace correctly, step by step, color and draw creatively

Review 6 Using I Know My Numbers Multisensory Introduction: Sing “The Ant, the Bug and the Bee.”

3. Chose what pages you want to complete with children. Use real objects to count. Sing nursery rhymes and songs.

4. Children count 6. Children color the pages. Children trace number 6.

Check for Understanding: Observe as children use the booklet. Do they make a

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Support/ELL: Use real objects to make a connection to 6. Count 6 gummy bears.

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Objective: Children learn how to build and sequence capital letters correctly.

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5. Now let’s build G on the Mat. Give each child a Mat to place right-side up. Repeat step four on the Mat using My Turn, Your Turn.

Position an object for use, placement, or release, use visual cues to guide reaching for, grasping, and moving objects

6. It’s capital letter G!

Check for Understanding: Observe as children build the letter. Are they placing

the pieces correctly?

Support/ELL: Gather the correct pieces for each child and prompt the child to use the Big Curve first.

Objective: Children learn two action verbs, say the words in sentences and use them in conversation.

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Support/ELL: Provide verbal and physical prompts as needed. Distribute pretend invitations.

Enrichment: Discuss. You can invite guests by sending an invitation. Have you sent an invitation?

Enrichment: Find objects around the room that begin with G.

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3. Say We invite friends. We visit friends.

4. Talk Squawker says: You can invite a friend to your house to play. What else can you invite a friend to do? You can visit family or friends for a special dinner. When do you visit family or friends?

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GRADE: Pre-K Code: TB-20 Tag Bags include fastener options, like zippers and buckles, along with numbers up to 10.

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GRADE: Pre-K Code: MIX Children identify, sort, trace, move shapes, build patterns, and learn to measure. Box contains an activity booklet with 10 activities,15 shapes (70 pieces total), and a cloth drawstring back for in-class storage.

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I Know My Numbers Activity Booklet GRADE: Pre-K Code: CKMN

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Children develop number formation skills with songs and rhymes. 10 booklets in the set, one booklet for each number 1–10, each with 14 pages.

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Hands-On Multisensory Materials HANDS-ON

Stamp & See Screen®

GRADE: Pre-K Code: SAS Build capitals and numbers on a 4" x 6" magnetic screen using four Wood Piece stamps:­Big Line, Little Line, Big Curve, and Little Curve. The magnetic, chalklike writing tool helps develop grip.

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Wood Pieces Set for Capital Letters (26 pieces)

GRADES: Pre-K–K Code: WP Children learn capital formations through imitation.

Use the set for teaching size, shape, and position words and concepts! Set includes: 8 Big Lines, 6 Big Curves, 6 Little Lines, and 6 Little Curves.

Capital Letter Cards for Wood Pieces

GRADES: Pre-K–K Code: LAM (laminated) Ideal for children who are just starting out with capital letters. Set includes 26 double-sided 8.5" x 11" cards, each featuring a letter recognition matching lesson.

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Roll–A–Dough Letters®

GRADE: Pre-K Code: RAD Children roll lines and curves of dough to make capitals and numbers using the blue tray for guidance. Set includes 18 doublesided capital and number cards, tray, and 12 ounce tub of dough.

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Hands-On: The Wet-Dry-Try Way Prevent and eliminate reversals in a multisensory way! Children learn good letter and number formation habits with Wet-Dry-Try!

Wet-Dry-Try App: Classroom Edition GRADES: Pre-K–2 Code: CLNAPP

• Practice formations based on our

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• View a snapshot of each child's progress

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Includes +Live Insights®, the digital dashboard for classroom management and reports.

Wet-Dry-Try on the Slate Chalkboard • Develops proper grip using Little Chalk

Bits and Little Sponge Cubes

• Provides tactile feedback to engage

memory and cognitive functions

• Gives clear physical and visual cues

(frame and smiley face) that prevent reversals

Want more info on the Wet-Dry-Try method?

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Slate Chalkboard

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GRADES: Pre-K–2 Code: SLT Teach and remediate capitals and numbers. The Slate Chalkboard reinforces top-to-bottom, left-to-right directionality and prevents and eliminates reversals.

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GRADES: Pre-K Code: MLBS-20 The Magnetic Lowercase & Blackboard Set engages children with fun, hands-on literacy and pre-writing activities. Use it to help children learn letter size and placement, while boosting alphabet knowledge and phonemic awareness. Includes double-sided magnetic board, 42 magnetic letters, and 22 magnetic hands.

Blackboard with Double Lines (10" x 17")

GRADES: K–4+ Code: BB Teach children how to make and place all letters on double lines in both printing and cursive using the Wet-Dry-Try method.

Little Chalk Bits

GRADES: Pre-K–4+ Code: LCB Develop pincer grip and make writing easy for little hands. Includes 200 (1") soft chalk pieces.

Little Sponge Cubes

GRADES: Pre-K–4+ Code: SC These sponges fit little hands when doing Wet-Dry-Try on the Slate Chalkboard or Blackboard with Double Lines. Includes 100 (½") square cubes per bag.

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NEW! Magnetic Lowercase & Blackboard Set (11" x 15")

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Hands-On: Classroom Tools Print Letter & Number Poster (34" x 24")

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Color Print & Number Wall Cards (8.5" x 11")

GRADES: K–2 Code: CPWC Includes 36 eye-catching letter and number cards that promote correct formations.

Cursive Wall Cards (11" x 8.5")

GRADES: 3–5 Code: CDC Includes 17 black and white letter cards to promote correct cursive letter formations.

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Alphabet Desk Strips (10.5" x 2")

GRADES: K–5 Code: PAS (Print Alphabet Desk Strips) Code: CAS (Cursive Alphabet Desk Strips) Includes four strips per sheet to use as a visual cue for letter formation.

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Hands-On: Meet Mat Man® HANDS-ON

Bring your classroom to life with everyone’s favorite hero, Mat Man! Build Mat Man in Your Classroom

Use the Wood Pieces and Mat for Wood Pieces to build Mat Man and teach important readiness skills to young learners. This multisensory approach builds body awareness, counting, drawing, and social skills.

Explore Mat Man World

Take your students on an exciting journey of singing, drawing, and building Mat Man with books, songs, and online games.

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Read the Mat Man Book Set GRADES: Pre-K–K Children learn readiness and language arts skills with this four-book boxed set, including Mat Man Shapes, Mat Man Hats, Mat Man On the Go, and Mat Man Opposites.

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Build Mat Man® Kit GRADES: Pre-K–K Code: BMM

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K–5 Handwriting Curriculum • New digital instruction combines the teacher’s guide with fun, online ed tech options to teach lessons • Engaging activities form good handwriting habits from the start • Lessons provide interesting, cross-curricular connections • Developmental teaching order and strategies align to learning standards • Grade-level workbooks and journals offer additional writing practice HTT: The Handwriting nteractive Teaching Tool™ works alongside our new editions of the student workbooks (p. 20).

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HTT: The Handwriting nteractive Teaching Tool™ Digital handwriting instruction: Easy for teachers, fun for kids!

HT T (The Handwriting nteractive Teaching Tool™) is an easy-to-use digital instruction tool that enhances our workbooks and supports your teaching.

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Handwriting: Transitional Kindergarten

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CODE: KSK-18 The transitional kindergarten workbook provides a bridge from Pre-K to kindergarten with a developmentally appropriate sequence.

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CODE: LN-18 Kindergarten students, or those working at that level, learn capitals, lowercase letters, numbers, words, and sentences. Includes large, step-by-step models for finger tracing, spacing, and lefty-friendly pages.

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N ame: Name:

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Patrick scored.

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T he crowd

are very hard.

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- hit baseball

- ran bases

A narwhal

- scored and won

narwhal

It was Dave’s turn to bat.

- migrates to lay eggs

- is a blue, red, or silver color

A salmon

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CODE: BWC-18 Students will write stories in logical order with detail, action, and emotion with narrative writing. In the information writing section, students write an introduction about their topic, facts to explain their topic, and a conclusion. For opinion/argument writing, students clearly state their opinion with a topic sentence, supporting reasons, and a conclusion.

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My first

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Humpback

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It’s fun to

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very neat - very easy to find things

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- fish

- warm-blooded

- cold-blooded

- breathes air with lungs

- breathes in water with gills

- has fins and tail

- has fins and tail

- swims in water

- swims in water

Only whale:

- very easy to clean up - very organized - places for everything

Only salmon:

neat enough

a little messy

- easy to find things

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- easy to clean up

- hard to clean up

- organized

- not organized

- places for most things

- too much stuff

I think my classroom is

Both whale and salmon:

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CODE: CH-18 Third grade students, or those working at that level, easily transition from printing to cursive with cursive warm-ups.

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With information writing, students include facts, definitions, and details about their topic. In the opinion/argument writing section, students clearly state an opinion with organized supporting reasons and a conclusion.

ACROSTC POES

Sacajawea helped

Gandhi was

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the Lewis and

Write about the female explorers using the supporting facts.

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Amelia Earhart - was the first female to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean

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an army.”

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keyboard

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“ W hen I was a

- disappeared somewhere over the Pacific Ocean

- is popular in Brazil and in Mexico

- received US Distinguished Flying Cross

A

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C C O R

Sacajawea

- guided Lewis & Clark expedition

D

- always carried her baby with her and kept group safe

I O

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Handwriting: Grade 4 Cursive Success Workbook

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Name:

GRADE: 4

CODE: BWE-18 Students introduce a narrator and characters and enhance a story with dialogue and description in the narrative writing section. With information writing, students discover how to include facts, definitions, and details about their topic and write a conclusion. In the opinion/argument writing section, students organize their information into paragraphs and clearly connect their opinions with linking words.

Structured Practice to Build Core Writing Skills

When I visit D.C., I want to see the Washington Monument first.

We knew we had reached the U.S. when we saw the Statue of Liberty.

A large statue of Abraham Lincoln sits inside the Lincoln Memorial.

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SHOWN SEQUENCE

Read the information about some natural disasters below. Write about the natural disasters and include an introduction, facts, and a conclusion.

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- deadliest natural

disaster

- happens

when Earth

earthquake

shifts and moves

- also called

cyclones or twisters

tornado

- formed by rotating,

spinning air during

a storm - mountain

connected to molten rock

below Earth’s surface

- erupts and volcano

explodes with

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Handwriting: Grade 5 & Translations Can-Do Cursive Workbook

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Watch me, it's easy!

F

Name:

Structured Practice to Build Core Writing Skills

GRADES: 5+

Can-Do Cursive

T he Vasa warship sank on its

maiden voyage.

Code: BWF-18

GRADES: 5+

T he Viking longship’s symmetrical design is amazing.

Students practice narrative, information, and opinion/argument writing.

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My ancestors lived in a

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Nueva York

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medusa

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Letras y Números Para Mi

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Mi Libro de Escribir Imprenta

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El Poder de la Imprenta

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Our kits were designed with teachers in mind and include all the essentials you need to teach effectively by grade. We've made handwriting instruction easy to implement, so you are positioned for classroom success. Our teacher kits feature: • Teacher’s Guide or HTT (The Handwriting nteractive Teaching Tool™)

• Desk Strips • Double Line Paper • Pencils and Crayons

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Double Line Notebook Paper

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Eliminate line confusion, make it easy for children to control size and placement, and see neatness improve immediately!

Wide Notebook Paper

Regular Notebook Paper

GRADES: K–1 Lines are spaced 5⁄16" apart.

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Double Line Sentence Strips

GRADES: K–4+ Code: DSS Model sentences and words using double lines.

Great for bulletin boards and word walls.

Each set contains 100 strips (24" x 3").

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Double Line Chart Tablet GRADES: K–4+ Code: TAB Designed for use with a classroom easel.

Includes set of 2 tablets with 30 sheets per tablet (24" x 32").

Double Line Writer

GRADES: K–4+ Code: DBLW Draw lines on chalkboards or dry erase boards for letter, word, and sentence practice.

Pencils for Little Hands GRADES: K–1 Code: PEN A perfect tool for little hands!

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rs e t i r W g in d l i u B Structured Practice to Build Core Writing Skills Students become better, more fluent writers as they write about cross-curricular topics and practice three types of writing styles: narrative, information, and opinion/argument.

• Developmental approach to writing • Ready-to-teach lessons reduce teacher prep time • Narrative, information, and opinion/argument writing practice • Customizable writing templates Narrative Writing

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Keyboarding Without Tears is an easy-to-teach curriculum that provides students with the pre-keyboarding and keyboarding skills they need to succeed. Plus, it includes more activities available this year, including Home Row technique reinforcements, digital citizenship assessments, and more flexible typing practice options.

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Your Classroom and License Management Dashboard for Keyboarding Without Tears • Set Up Students and Manage Classrooms • Monitor Progress Easily and Effectively • Access FREE Grade-Level Teacher’s Guides

New Activities!

The possibilities are endless for engaging, effective keyboarding instruction: Teacher Custom Creation

Create your own keyboarding adventure with custom activities for your students to practice keyboarding with content from other subjects.

My Choice Keyboarding

Students write their own responses to prompts while practicing their keyboard skills.

Hear It, Type It

Students practice typing what they hear with dictation activities!

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Keyboarding KINDERGARTEN: Keys for Me • Develops fine motor skills • Teaches keyboard and mouse functions • Builds pre-keyboarding skills Code: KEYK

GRADE 1: My Keying Board • Strengthens drag and drop skills • Develops finger-key association • Includes practice for typing letters and words Code: KEY1

GRADE 2: Key Power • Builds typing muscle memory • Teaches the entire keyboard • Includes practice for common letters, words, and sentences Code: KEY2

How to choose: Select licenses that match your students’ current grade level.

Each license includes foundation skills and the ability to skip ahead.

Build a Keyboard activity board GRADES: K–2 Code: BK Children learn how to locate, match, and identify letter, number, and action keys on an 11" x 17" magnetic board.

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Keyboarding GRADE 3: Keyboarding • Teaches number and action keys • Shows how to format and type paragraphs • Increases typing accuracy Code: KEY3

GRADE 4: Keyboarding Success • Reinforces typing speed and fluency • Strengthens muscle memory • Enhances language arts and creative writing abilities Code: KEY4

GRADE 5: Can-Do Keyboarding • Supports mastery of typing accuracy and speed • Helps students handle standards and testing in higher grades • Includes practice for typing paragraphs about interesting subjects Code: KEY5

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Whether you’re visiting us at an in-person workshop for hands-on experience or watching a virtual workshop from the comfort of your home or office, you’ll walk away from our training better prepared to build confident communicators and responsible digital citizens.

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A Multisensory Approach to Kindergarten Readiness Full Day | 6.5 Contact Hours

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At the end of this full-day workshop, you will be able to: • Implement effective, hands-on developmentally appropriate activities that incorporate language & literacy, numbers & math, readiness & writing, oral language, and science & social studies learning areas • Use multisensory activities, music, and digital learning to teach writing readiness, number sense, literacy skills, vocabulary, scientific thinking, and important sensory motor and social-emotional skills in young learners • Navigate digital teaching technology and hands-on materials to facilitate engaging lessons • Participate in center-based breakout groups to gain practical experience in using the complete Pre-K curriculum

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At the end of this half-day workshop, you will be able to: • Plan your instruction based on developmental stages for writing readiness and foster important social-emotional skills in a developmentally appropriate way • Use hands-on, multisensory activities to teach size, shape, and position concepts for pre-writing and sensory motor skills • Use multisensory activities and music to teach pre-writing, sensory motor, and coloring skills, while building habits for letter and number formation and lowercase letter recognition • Navigate the Get Set For School digital teaching technology to facilitate engaging lessons • Use My First School Book and My First Lowercase Book to help children progress from tracing their letters and numbers to writing their names

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Full Day | 6.5 Contact Hours Gain the skills and knowledge to easily teach and remediate printing and cursive in classroom and 1:1 settings with students of all learning styles.

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At the end of this full-day workshop, you will be able to: • Implement, teach, and remediate handwriting using effective, step-by-step lesson plans that incorporate active teaching, multisensory strategies, and differentiated instruction • Promote independent writing skills beyond handwriting workbook instruction • Use the Handwriting Without Tears® unique approach, stages of learning, and our two handwriting assessments (Screener of Handwriting Proficiency and The Print Tool®) • Navigate the Handwriting Without Tears digital teaching technology and hands-on resources to facilitate engaging lessons

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Full Day | 7.0 Contact Hours Join us to learn strategies to assess and remediate handwriting as we help you evaluate a range of developmental levels of your students. This is an intermediate-level workshop.

At the end of the workshop, you will be able to: • Administer and score the Pre-K Assessments and the Screener of Handwriting Proficiency • Describe the seven handwriting components essential to handwriting success • Administer, score, and interpret The Print Tool® for 1:1 evaluation • Write parent-friendly reports, set goals, and document progress for evidence-based practice • Choose remediation materials and strategies based on evaluation results • Understand different handwriting curricula, discover new handwriting resources, and use The Print Tool with various populations • Identify the benefits and process of becoming a certified handwriting specialist

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GRADES: K–5 Code: TOOL16 The Print Tool is a one-on-one assessment used to evaluate and remediate capitals, lowercase letters, and numbers. Includes: • The Print Tool guide book • Transparent measuring tool • Student sample worksheets, evaluation scoresheets, and handwriting remediation plan forms (10 each)

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Professional Development: Pre-K & K–5 Schedule A Multisensory Approach to Kindergarten Readiness: Day 1, Full Day (see p. 46 for objectives) Pre-K Readiness & Writing: Day 1, Half Day, Morning Session (see p. 47 for objectives) K–5 Handwriting: Day 2, Full Day (see p. 48 for objectives) ARIZONA Phoenix February 21–22

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