We believe literacy success is best achieved by focusing on the foundations, building essential handwriting proficiency, fostering early phonics skills, and providing targeted support for struggling learners with solutions that are tailored to seamlessly integrate into your classroom practices.
Understanding that each student’s learning journey is unique, all our programs incorporate strategies to specifically address the needs of struggling learners and multi-lingual learners.
To complement our learning solutions, we offer exceptional professional learning support to educators. Our team provides essential training, resources, and ongoing assistance in building teacher capacity and expertise.
We would be honored to collaborate with you. Together, we can make a lasting impact on the lives of young learners, empowering them with the skills they need to succeed academically and beyond.
- The Learning Without Tears Family
WE ARE EXCITED
to bring you the latest evolution of Handwriting Without Tears , Readiness & Writing , and Phonics, Reading, and Me !
Readiness and Writing
Our enhancements to Readiness & Writing align the program with Handwriting Without Tears in student activity books, teacher’s guides, and the digital offering.
The expansion of Phonics, Reading, and Me Set A for K to a full year includes new alphabet Read Alouds, more decodable books, and lessons for the first half of kindergarten. both intuitive and customizable.
The Learning Without Tears Story
1977 1980s 1990s
1980: Jan wrote her first book, Handwriting Without Tears, a guide to help occupational therapists and teachers.
1988—1990:
Jan conducts her first workshop, and releases her first student editions, Cursive Handwriting and My Printing Book
1996—1999:
Handwriting Without Tears books are shipped nationwide, directly from Jan’s basement.
Student editions are created by grade for handwriting 1–4, along with a Printing Teacher’s Guide and a Cursive Teacher’s Guide.
Our journey started more than 40 years ago at the kitchen table of a mom whose son was struggling with handwriting. Jan Olsen, an occupational therapist, developed a revolutionary new approach to handwriting that has helped millions of students.
Since then, we’ve grown from one passionate entrepreneur to a company of teachers, literacy specialists, occupational therapists, and digital experts from all over the world. We create essential solutions that work across curricula and integrate with today’s classrooms. Our approach is all about joyful learning.
Fueled by our creativity and passion, we’ll keep building exciting new experiences, ensuring that teaching and learning remain easy and fun for all.
2000s 2010s PRESENT
2001: A kindergarten student edition, Letters and Numbers for Me, is created.
2001: The company headquarters is opened in Cabin John, MD.
2001: Handwriting Without Tears welcomes the Kindergarten Teacher’s Guide.
2003: Get Set for School® launches as a Pre-K readiness program.
2003: The first music album is written and recorded with Grammy-winning artists, Cathy and Marcy.
2003: The first Spanish editions of Handwriting Without Tears release.
2007: Mat Man® Books release.
2008: Grade-level Teacher’s Guides are developed.
2011: Pre-K expands to add Language & Literacy and Numbers & Math.
2012: Wet-Dry-Try, the digital version of the popular handwriting activity, launches on the iTunes App Store.
2013: The company launches +Live Insights, a digital dashboard connecting its learning products.
2014: Keyboarding Without Tears®, a typing and digital citizen program, launches.
2017: Company is renamed to Learning Without Tears, an early education company that helps students develop foundation skills necessary to become successful learners for life.
2018: The Interactive Digital Teaching Tool, a digital solution for teaching handwriting lessons, launches. Building Writers, a supplemental writing program, releases.
2019: The Pre-K Interactive Teaching Tool launches.
2020: Handwriting Without Tears launches an Integrated Print and Digital Solution, and Get Set for School adds new components, making it a complete Pre-K program.
2022: Phonics, Reading, and Me™, a supplemental phonics and reading program, releases.
2023: Keyboarding Without Tears adds the Assessment Accelerator, computer-based testing modules for grades 3–5.
2025: Readiness & Writing is updated to align as the precursor to Handwriting WIthout Tears. Phonics, Reading, and Me for K is expanded to include the first half of K.
Learning Without Tears— Building Foundations for Literacy
Students attain literacy proficiency by beginning with solid foundations based on research.
• Foundational reading skills taught in an explicit, systematic way are essential for developing the ability to read. As illustrated by Scarborough’s Reading Rope, we see how intertwined strands are crucial for proficient reading.
• Foundational writing skills taught in an explicit, systematic manner are critical for structuring text and constructing sentences proficiently. Adapted from Joan Sedita’s The Writing Rope™ framework, we clearly see how the key components of writing instruction work together.
LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION
Background Knowledge
Vocabulary Knowledge
Language Knowledge
Verbal Reasoning
Literacy Knowledge
Phonological Awareness
Decoding (and Encoding)
Sight Recognition
WORD RECOGNITION
READING
Neuman, S.B., & Dickinson, D.K. (Eds.). (2001). Handbook of Early Literacy Research. New York: Guilford Press. See Chapter 8: Scarborough, H.S. “Connecting Early Language and Literacy to Later Reading (Dis)abilities: Evidence, Theory, and Practice.”
Teaching reading and writing skills together is most effective, as strong reading supports better writing, and writing practice enhances reading abilities, leading to comprehensive literacy development.
Learning and practicing reading and writing skills simultaneously is crucial because these processes are interdependent and mutually reinforcing. In service of students learning early literacy, our products make it easy for teachers to “braid” the explicit, systematic skills together in support of comprehensive reading and writing success.
COMPOSITION
Vocabulary and Word Choice
WRITING
Sedita, J. (2022). The Writing Rope: A Framework for Explicit Writing Instruction in All Subjects. Paul H. Brookes Publishing. This reference to “The Writing Rope” is solely to the book authored by Joan Sedita, is made for informational purposes, and does not imply any affiliation, sponsorship, or endorsement by Joan Sedita.
Audience, Purpose, and Context
Knowledge of Structure Types
Knowledge of Text Structure
Spelling
Handwriting and Keyboarding
Grammar and Punctuation
TRANSCRIPTION
LITERACY SOLUTIONS
Use Learning Without Tears solutions and explicit teaching to provide a solid foundation for literacy success.
PRE-K WRITING READINESS
Readiness & Writing I Pre-K
CURSIVE
Handwriting Without Tears I 2–6
FULL PRE-K PROGRAM
Get Set for School I Pre-K
PHONICS AND READING
Phonics, Reading, and Me I K–3
WRITING
Building Writers I K–5
KEYBOARDING
Keyboarding Without Tears I K–5
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. OTs developed the program, and teachers informed and enhanced it.
Driven by Science, OTs, 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.
Easily Integrates with Literacy Curricula
Lessons include differentiation, support with the language used for ELLs, articulation videos, and grade-appropriate ELA enhancements for developing reading and writing skills
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.
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.
EASY TO USE, SEAMLESS INTEGRATION INTO ANY ELA PROGRAM
Our Print and Digital Solution Has All You Need
• Enhanced student editions with additional progress monitoring pages
• Practice on all styles of paper found in the classroom
Optional Student Digital Experience
Students stay connected with their handwriting lessons no matter where they are
• Teachers can digitally assign lessons and track student progress
• Access Letter and Number Formations, digital Wood Pieces activities, and Wet-Dry-Try
• Students can submit lessons digitally
KICK START KINDERGARTEN
Kick Start Kindergarten
Student Edition
Kick Start Kindergarten bridges Pre-K and Kindergarten. Use it in a Transitional Kindergarten classroom or for students working at that level. Children learn capitals, numbers, and lowercase letters. Word choices in the handwriting lessons align with grade-appropriate phonics concepts. Includes 8 new pages of lowercase practice.
GRADE: TK KSK-25 $13.50
Large step-by-step letter formation models
Child-friendly language makes letter and number formation easy. Gray Blocks and Slates prevent reversals of letters and numbers.
There is always a visible perfect model for the child to copy, to the left and right or top and bottom. We never ask a child to copy his or her own work or to copy something a lefty can’t see.
Illustrations are child-friendly, and fun to color.
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Mat Man® teaches important readiness skills: body awareness, sequencing, sharing, drawing, and counting. See p. 54
See p. 52
Flip Crayons® promote proper grip and develop fine motor skills as children flip to change colors.
Wood Pieces Set for Capital Letters teach size, shape, position concepts, and building capitals. See p. 36
Teacher’s Guide
The 2025 Edition teacher’s guides are designed to minimize teacher prep. Everything you need is on the physical or digital lesson page. Lessons provide all the words for explicit handwriting instruction to make it easy for new teachers. The multisensory activities, differentiation strategies, ideas for multilingual learners, and progress monitoring are on the teaching page. Reading Connections, Writing Connections, and Knowledge Building extend the lessons to ensure literacy success.
GRADE: TK TGKSK-25 $49.95
Explicit Instruction [[]]
The letter lessons follow these steps:
1. Teach and Model
2. Guided Practice
3. Check Letter
4. Read, Color, and Draw
Reading Connection
Activities have a foundational reading focus: phonemic awareness, phonics, print concepts.
EXPLICIT INSTRUCTION
1. Teach and Model Children “Frog Jump” by lifting their pencil, not retracing the stoke. Make the Frog Jump fun by saying, “ribbit!”
Capital F: F is a Frog Jump Capital.
Start: F starts in the Starting Corner.
Steps: Big Line down, Frog Jump, Little Line across the top, Little Line across the middle.
2. Guided Practice Children finger trace step-by-step models on the page while saying the words. Children trace F, and then copy F
3. Check Letter Monitor as children trace and copy letters for correct start and steps.
4. Read, Color, and Draw Write FISH on the board. Read the word. Point to the letter F and say: This is capital F. Children can color the fish.
READING
OBJECTIVE
To develop correct habits for writing capital F
MULTISENSORY WARM-UP
Building Capital Letters and Numbers
Build capital F piece by piece using Wood Pieces on the Mat. Go to p. 147 for the full activity.
TEACH IT
Use Resources
Introduce the names of all four Wood Pieces used for building capital letters. Go to p. 144 for the full activity.
MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS
Crouch down and jump forward, like a frog. Say: jump. Have children repeat the action and the word. Invite children to finger trace the F again while saying the steps, including jump
Digital Teaching
Engage children with tools on idtt.lwtears.com including:
• A Click Away supports
• Animations
• Songs and lyrics
WRITING CONNECTION
Build Sentences Help children build sentences about fish by asking questions and writing their answers on the board. Ask: How does a fish move? Write: A fish swims. Say each word as you write. Model adding a space between each.
Multisensory Warm-up
Lessons include a recommended multisensory activity.
Multilingual Learners
Extra language support.
Digital Teaching]
Engaging digital activities for teaching and extras for school and home.
Writing Connection]
Practice handwriting along with writing conventions, sentence structure, grammar and types of writing.
Capital Letter Cards for Wood Pieces are great for children learning to build letters. See p. 36 Rock, Rap, Tap & Learn album: 25 upbeat and rocking songs use coordination and rhythm to develop selfesteem and body awareness. See p. 69
Letters to Words Blackboard Set helps children learn the sounds that letters make while practicing writing on double lines. See p. 34
LETTERS AND NUMBERS FOR ME
Student Edition
Letters and Numbers
Kindergarten students practice capitals, lowercase letters, numbers, words, and sentences. Multisensory lessons, activities, and word choices align with grade-level ELA teaching. Includes 8 new pages of letter formation activities and practice writing on different line styles.
GRADE: K
Step-by-step letter formations are easy to teach.
Child-friendly language makes letter and number formation easy.
Gray Blocks and Slates prevent reversals of letters and numbers.
Self-check helps students check their letters.
Illustrations are child-friendly, and fun to color.
Developmental progression from heavier to lighter gray blocks, and from writing with a starting dot to writing independently.
Chalkboard helps teach capitals and numbers, placement, and directionality. See p. 35
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Letters to Words Blackboard Set helps children learn the sounds that letters make while practicing writing on double lines. See p. 34
and Model
Teacher’s Guide
The 2025 Edition teacher’s guides are designed to minimize teacher prep. Everything you need is on the physical or digital lesson page. Lessons provide all the words for explicit handwriting instruction to make it easy for new teachers. The multisensory activities, differentiation strategies, ideas for multilingual learners, and progress monitoring are on the teaching page. Reading Connections, Writing Connections, and Knowledge Building extend the lessons to ensure literacy success.
B, R
AVAILABLE IN SPANISH!
Capital D: D is a Frog Jump Capital.
D starts in the Starting Corner.
Big Line down, Frog Jump, Big Curve to the bottom.
Capital P: P is a Frog Jump Capital.
P starts in the Starting Corner.
Big Line down, Frog Jump, Little Curve to the middle.
Guided Practice
Children finger trace step-by-step models on the page while saying words. Children copy D and P
Letter
children their letter for correct start and steps.
Reading Connection
pen,
Activities have a foundational reading focus: phonemic awareness, phonics, print concepts.
1. Teach and Model
Capital : is a Frog Jump Capital.
Start: starts in the Starting Corner.
Steps: Big Line down, Frog Jump, Little Curve to the middle, Little Curve to the bottom.
Capital R: R is a Frog Jump Capital.
Start: R starts in the Starting Corner.
Steps: Big Line down, Frog Jump, Little Curve to the middle, Little Line slides down.
2. Guided Practice
Children finger trace step-by-step models on the page while saying the words. Children copy and R
3. Check Letter
Help children their letter for correct start and steps.
READING CONNECTION
Phonological Awareness
Ask children which word pairs rhyme: hug/rug, frog/bike, sock/lock, whale/hole. Children can respond with a thumbs up or down.
OBJECTIVE
To develop correct habits for writing capitals and R
MULTISENSORY WARM-UP
Mystery Letters
Use the Slate Chalkboard for the Mystery Letter Game for the letters F, E, D, P, , and R. Go to p. 150 for the full activity.
DIFFERENTIATION
Enrichment
Use the Gray Block Paper to practice writing the letters F, E, D, P, , R. Write the letter model across the top and have children copy below.
MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS
Point to the bottom of a Slate Chalkboard, drawing an invisible horizontal line to show the bottom. Say bottom and have children repeat. Have children point to the bottom of a gray block and say bottom
Digital Teaching
Engage children with tools on idtt.lwtears.com including:
• Animations
• Formation Tools
• Live Teaching Videos
KNOWLEDGE BUILDING
Science
Explain that bananas grow in warm places. Ask children if they have ever been to a place where bananas grow. Then, ask if they think bananas grow on trees or underground. (on trees)
Multisensory
Warm-up
Lessons include a recommended multisensory activity.
Multilingual Learners
Extra language support. Digital Teaching]
Engaging digital activities for teaching and extras for school and home.
Knowledge Building]
Fun ways to provide general knowledge in other curricular areas: science, social, studies, art.
Interactive Digital Teaching Tool brings your classroom to life with easy-to-launch lessons that require little teacher prep. See p. 32
Writing Journal – 80-page journal with double lines for reading responses or writing practice as a record of the student’s work. See p. 39
Building Writers provides supplemental writing practice for core writing skills focused on narrative, information, and opinion/argument writing. See p. 46
MY PRINTING BOOK
y Printing Book
Name:
Student Edition
First-grade students practice the correct use of lowercase letters in words and sentences. My Printing Book includes grade-level reading words, grammar, and paragraph writings. The new edition has 8 more letter review pages, practice writing on different line styles, and new opportunities to monitor student progress.
GRADE: 1 MPB-25 $13.50
Child-friendly language makes letter and number formation easy.
Large step-by-step models are easy to teach and finger trace.
Support for lefties makes direction easy to teach for everyone.
Learn and Check helps students check their letter, word, and sentence skills.
Developmental progression from starting dots with models on both sides to writing independently.
Illustrations are child-friendly, and fun to color.
Ready for Writing Lowercase Poster Set helps students with size and placement of letters on lines as well as spacing for words and sentences. See p. 45
Letters to Word Blackboard Set helps children learn the sounds that letters and letter combinations make while practicing writing on double lines. See p. 34
Digital Teaching Tool brings your classroom to life with easy-to-launch lessons that require little teacher prep. See p. 32
Multisensory
Warm-up
Lessons include a recommended multisensory activity.
Teach It
Letter Stories help make letter formations memorable.
Multilingual Learners
Extra language support to help learners understand the language in the lesson.
Reading Connection
Activities have a foundational reading focus: phonemic awareness, phonics, print concepts.
Teacher’s Guide
The 2025 Edition teacher’s guides are designed to minimize teacher prep. Everything you need is on the physical or digital lesson page. Lessons provide all the words for explicit handwriting instruction to make it easy for new teachers. The multisensory activities, differentiation strategies, ideas for multilingual learners, and progress monitoring are on the teaching page. Reading Connections, Writing Connections, and Knowledge Building extend the lessons to ensure literacy success.
GRADE: 1 TGMPB-25 $49.95
OBJECTIVE
• To use correct habits for writing lowercase t
MULTISENSORY WARM-UP
Air Writing
Have children trace the letter t in the air. Go to p. 12 for the full activity.
TEACH IT Letter Story
Tell the story “T Is Tall, t Is Tall But…”
Look at me. I can make capital
T. Look at me. I can make lowercase t. Capital T is tall. Lowercase t is tall, but it’s crossed lower. Capital T and lowercase t are both tall.
MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS
To help with letter size, remind children what tall means. Have children stand on their tip toes and reach up to act out feeling tall. Invite them to talk about how much taller they’ve grown in the past year.
AVAILABLE IN SPANISH! P. 88
EXPLICIT INSTRUCTION
1. Teach and Model Size: Lowercase t is a tall letter. Start: t starts in the top space. Steps: Down, bump, cross.
2. Guided Practice
Children finger trace and say the step-by-step models. Children then use their pencils to copy each t
3. Check Letter
Help children their letter for correct start, steps, and bump.
4. Read, Color, and Draw Articulation Video Show the t video. Remind children that t stands for /t/. Read aloud: T is for trumpet, and invite children to draw other instruments that begin with /t/ such as tuba tambourine
KNOWLEDGE BUILDING
READING CONNECTION
Phonemic Awareness
Science: How Things Work Invite children to observe how sound is connected to vibration by plucking a rubber band around an empty tissue box. Explain that a trumpet uses vibration to make sound. When we put our lips on the mouthpiece and buzz, air vibrates down the metal tube and sound comes
EXPLICIT INSTRUCTION
Explicit Instruction [[]]
The letter lessons follow these steps:
HANDWRITING
1. Teach and Review Model how to write T t. Write to, cot, cost, and two on double lines as you read the words. Demonstrate adding rimes to the onsets h and n, writing in the words hot and not, followed by adding -at to write mat Last, have children think about what missing letters go under toss
1. Teach and Model
2. Guided Practice
3. Check Letter
2. Guided Practice Children copy words. Monitor as children complete words by adding rimes to onsets or other missing letters.
3. Check Words Help children their words for correct start, steps, and bump.
4. Read Together Say: Let’s read the words on the second row together: to, cot, cost, two. Now, let’s read words with ot pattern. pot, dot, hot, not. Repeat with post and most, toss and toe
4. Read, Color, and Draw Knowledge Building]
Fun ways to provide general knowledge in other curricular areas: science, social studies, art. Writing Journal – 80-page journal with double lines for reading responses or writing practice as a record of the student’s work. See p. 39
Building Writers provides supplemental writing practice for core writing skills focused on narrative, information, and opinion/argument writing. See p. 46
Double Line Sentence Strips – Model sentences and words using double lines. Great for bulletin boards and word walls. See p. 45
PRINTING POWER
Student Edition
Second-grade students work on printing fluency with activities that include punctuation, advanced paragraphs, poems, and other on-grade language arts activities. Includes 8 more activity pages with practice writing on different line styles and opportunities to assess student progress.
GRADE: 2 PP-25 $13.50
Child-friendly language makes letter and number formation easy.
Large step-by-step models are easy to teach and finger trace.
Developmental progression from starting dots with models on both sides to writing independently.
Learn and Check helps students check their letter, word, and sentence skills.
Word choice expands vocabulary and aligns with phonological developmental progression.
Blackboard with Double Lines teaches letter formation and placement on lines. See p. 34
Print Alphabet Desk Strips – Adhesive strip and visual clue for letter formation. See p. 36
Multisensory Warm-up
Lessons include a recommended multisensory activity.
Differentiation
Remediation activities to reinforce stroke sequence.
Multilingual Learners
Extra language support to help learners understand the language in the lesson.
Reading Connection
Activities have a foundational reading focus: phonemic awareness, phonics, print concepts.
Teacher’s Guide
The 2025 Edition teacher’s guides are designed to minimize teacher prep. Everything you need is on the physical or digital lesson page. Lessons provide all the words for explicit handwriting instruction to make it easy for new teachers. The multisensory activities, differentiation strategies, ideas for multilingual learners, and progress monitoring are on the teaching page. Reading Connections, Writing Connections, and Knowledge Building extend the lessons to ensure literacy success.
A a Words
OBJECTIVES
• To practice writing lowercase a with correct habits in words
• To build fluency by writing words and sentences
MULTISENSORY WARM-UP
Forming Letters with Letters to Words Blackboard Set
Use the magnetic letters and hands to explore lowercase letter size and placement for a on the magnetic board.
DIFFERENTIATION
Remediation
Reinforce the Magic c stroke by air writing the letter a
MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS
Spanish Note: Draw a simple picture of a boat, and ask Spanish-speaking children what the word for boat is in Spanish (bote). Write both words on the board. Invite volunteers to the board to circle the b in both words.
EXPLICIT INSTRUCTION
1. Teach and Model Magic c Letters begin with the c stroke. Focus on turning c magically into a, d, g, and o. Have fun!
Demonstrate writing A a and adding rimes to onsets on double lines.
Size: Lowercase a is a small letter. Start: a starts on the mid line. Steps: Magic c, up like a helicopter, bump, back down, bump.
2. Guided Practice Monitor as children copy letters and add rimes to onsets.
3. Check Letter and Word Help children their letters for correct start, steps, and bump, and their word for correct letter size, placement, and closeness.
4. Read and Discuss Read the words on the page togehter. Invite students to share which words have the short sound a in them.
WRITING
READING CONNECTION
Phonemic Awareness
Have students follow the prompts to create word chains. Say: Start with toast. Change /t/ to /k/. What’s the word? (coast) Now, say coast without the /s/. (coat) Last, leave off the /k/and add /th//r/ instead. (throat)
Explicit Instruction [[]]
The letter lessons follow these steps:
1. Teach and Model
2. Guided Practice
3. Check Letter
4. Read and Discuss
Writing Connection] Practice handwriting along with writing conventions, sentence structure, grammar, and types of writing.
CURSIVE KICKOFF
Cursive Kickoff
Name:
Student Edition
Second-grade students review print letter formations and start beginning cursive with letters, connections, and practice writing. Word choices in the handwriting lessons align with second grade phonics and reading concepts to ensure literacy success. Includes practice writing on different line styles.
GRADE: 2 CK-25 $13.50
Child-friendly language makes letter and number formation easy.
Large step-by-step models are easy to teach and finger trace.
Illustrations support the teaching language.
Learn and Check helps students check their letter, word, and sentence skills.
Developmental progression from starting dots with models on both sides to writing independently.
Always a perfect model to copy— left and right or
Cursive Alphabet Desk Strips –adhesive strip and visual clue for letter formation. See p. 36
Blackboard with Double Lines teaches letter fromation and placement on lines. See p. 34
Teacher’s Guide
Multisensory
Warm-up
Lessons include a recommended multisensory activity.
Differentiation
Remediation activities to reinforce stroke sequence
Multilingual Learners
Extra language support to help learners understand the language in the lesson.
Writing Connection
Support the teaching of different styles of writing with a narrative story and suggestions for sentence writing.
The 2025 Edition teacher’s guides are designed to minimize teacher prep. Everything you need is on the physical or digital lesson page. Lessons provide all the words for explicit handwriting instruction to make it easy for new teachers. The multisensory activities, differentiation strategies, ideas for multilingual learners, and progress monitoring are on the teaching page. Reading Connections, Writing Connections, and Knowledge Building extend the lessons to ensure literacy success.
GRADE: 2 TGCK-25 $49.95
OBJECTIVES
• To develop habits for writing and placing lowercase h
• To connect h to other letters
MULTISENSORY WARM-UP
Air Writing
Practice h with active movement. Use an Air Writing activity such as Voices or Laser Letters. Go to p. 145 for the full activity.
DIFFERENTIATION
Remediation
Use the Cursive Warm-Ups from A Click Away to practice the up and straight down strokes when making h
MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS
Portuguese Note: The letter h is silent at the beginning of words in Portuguese. Write and say words that begin with h—such as hop—having students repeat.
1. Teach and Model
Demonstrate h and connections with h
Start: Lowercase h starts on the base line.
Steps: Travel, up like a helicopter, back down, bump, climb back up and over, and down, bump, travel away.
2. Guided Practice
Students finger trace the step-by-step models while saying the words. Students copy the letters and connections.
3. Check Letters and Steps
Help students their letters for correct start, steps, and bump and their connecting letters steps for correct size, placement, and connections.
4. Read and Discuss
Have students turn to a partner and think of three words that start with h, which stands for the /h/ sound, like in helicopter. Write: Hayden has a huge helicopter. Read the sentence together.
KNOWLEDGE BUILDING
WRITING CONNECTION
Narrative Writing
Construct a story with children, building off: Hayden has a huge helicopter. Add: He traveled to the ocean in his helicopter. Invite students to come up with sentences that tell what Hayden did at the ocean and to write an ending, such as He had a great day! Review the beginning, middle, and end.
Science: How Things Work
Share a few facts about helicopters: Helicopters are smaller than planes and need less space to take off and land. They can go straight up in the air and hover. They have propellers that spin, and they are slower than planes. Ask: When would a helicopter be useful? Pairs can discuss.
Explicit Instruction [[]]
The letter lessons follow these steps:
1. Teach and Model
2. Guided Practice
3. Check Letter
4. Read and Discuss
Knowledge Building]
Fun ways to provide general knowledge in other curricular areas: science, social studies, art.
Line Notebook Paper reinforces and promotes the proper placement and size of letters. See p. 38
Interactive Digital Teaching Tool brings your classroom to life with easy-to-launch lessons that require little prep time for experienced teachers. See p. 32
CURSIVE HANDWRITING
Student Edition
Cursive
Child-friendly language makes letter and number formation easy.
Children in third-grade level learn cursive lowercase and capital letters with fun, engaging, and multisensory lessons. Practice formations and connections with grade-level ELA activities that teach paragraphs, poems, and composition. Students transition from double lines to single lines to ensure handwriting success on any type of classroom paper. Pause and Practice pages provide opportunities for progress monitoring.
GRADE: 3 CH-25 $13.50
Students always copy a perfect model that a lefty or a righty can see.
Illustrations support the letter teaching language.
Letters are immediately incorporated into grade-level appropriate vocabulary words with previously taught letters.
Learn and Check for students to check letter, word, and sentence skills.
Cursive Wall Cards – Large models for above the board that show correct letter formations. See p. 36
Cursive Alphabet Desk Strips – Adhesive strip and visual clue for letter formation. See p. 36
Teacher’s Guide
The 2025 Edition teacher’s guides are designed to minimize teacher prep. Everything you need is on the physical or digital lesson page. Lessons provide all the words for explicit handwriting instruction to make it easy for new teachers. The multisensory activities, differentiation strategies, ideas for multilingual learners, and progress monitoring are on the teaching page. Reading Connections, Writing Connections, and Knowledge Building extend the lessons to ensure literacy success.
GRADE: 3 TGCH-25 $49.95
OBJECTIVES
• To develop habits for writing and placing lowercase b
Multisensory
Warm-up
Lessons include a recommended multi-sensory activity.
Teach It
Letter Stories help make letter formations memorable.
Multilingual Learners
Extra language support to help learners understand the language in the lesson.
Reading Connection]]
Activities have a foundational reading focus: phonemic awareness, phonics, print concepts.
• To connect b in words
MULTISENSORY WARM-UP
Wet-Dry-Try for Letters and Numbers
Prepare a Blackboard with Double Lines for each child by writing b in chalk. Model each step of Wet-Dry-Try, while children imitate. Go to p. 140 for the full routine.
TEACH IT
Use Strategies
Show students how to make the tow straight on the b. Make the tow long enough so that the next letter won’t be too close.
MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS
Review the meaning of tow, using the tow truck picture for support. Write tow and two on the board and point out the different spellings. Then, display different images for tow and two. Invite students to say the correct word in response to each image.
READING CONNECTION
Phonics
1. Teach and Model Demonstrate b and connections with b. in words
Start: Lowercase b starts on the base line. Steps: Travel, then up, turn down, bump, travel and up, end with a tow.
2. Guided Practice
Students finger trace the step-by-step models while saying the words. Students copy the letters and words.
3. Check Letter and Word Help students their letter for correct start, steps, and bump and their word for correct letter size, placement, and connections.
4. Read and Discuss Have students read the words on the page. Ask: Which words have two syllables? (body, about)
KNOWLEDGE BUILDING
Grammar: Conjunctions
Review the sound for a in about, reminding students that if the vowel sound in an unstressed syllable is not a short or a long sound, it is a schwa sound. Have pairs find the schwa sound in these multisyllabic words and then read them: balloon, astonish, bottom, celebrate.
Discuss how to connect ideas with a conjunction. Invite students to write a sentence using any of the words on the page and a conjunction, such as and, but, yet, and or. For example: My bag is big, but it has a hole in it.
Explicit Instruction [[]]
The letter lessons follow these steps:
1. Teach and Model Demonstrate words with b and writing a sentence. Say the steps as you write b and the letter connections.
2. Guided Practice
1. Teach and Model
Monitor as students copy letters, words, and sentences.
3. Check Sentence
2. Guided Practice
3. Check Letter
Help students their sentence for capitalization, word spacing, and ending.
4. Read and Discuss
4. Read and Discuss
Have students read the words and sentences on the page. In pairs, ask them to think of other words that end in b, like crab, and to generate sentences to say about crabs.
READING CONNECTION
Knowledge Building]
Comprehension In pairs, students can reread the sentences on the page and talk about what the details tell about bats. Ask whether bats are active during the day or night, finding the word dusk as a clue. Then, invite pairs to think of other facts about bats to support the idea that they are nocturnal.
Fun ways to provide general knowledge in other curricular areas: science, social studies, art.
Journal – 80-page journal with double lines for reading response or writing practice as a record of the child’s work. See p. 39
CURSIVE SUCCESS
Cursive Success
Child-friendly language makes letter and number formation easy.
Students always copy a perfect model that a lefty or a righty can see.
Student Edition
Students learn and practice cursive with lessons featuring paragraphs, poems, and independent writing. Pause and Practice pages provide opportunities to monitor and document student progress and identify remediation opportunities. GRADE:
Illustrations are child-friendly, and fun to color.
Large step-by-step models are easy to teach and finger trace.
Step-by-step for cursive capitals, too.
Spacing allows for students to focus on forming words, not making them fit on a line.
Which way do I go to wait?
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Learn and Check for students to check letter, word, and sentence skills.
Cursive Alphabet Desk Strips – Adhesive strip and visual clue for letter formation. See p. 36
Cursive Wall Cards – Large models for above the board that show correct letter formations. See p. 36
Multisensory Warm-up
Lessons include a recommended multi-sensory activity.
Teach It Letter Stories help make letter formations memorable.
Multilingual Learners
Extra language support to help learners understand the language in the lesson.
Reading Connection]]
Activities have a foundational reading focus: phonemic awareness, phonics, print concepts.
Teacher’s Guide
The 2025 Edition teacher’s guides are designed to minimize teacher prep. Everything you need is on the physical or digital lesson page. Lessons provide all the words for explicit handwriting instruction to make it easy for new teachers. The multisensory activities, differentiation strategies, ideas for multilingual learners, and progress monitoring are on the teaching page. Reading Connections, Writing Connections, and Knowledge Building extend the lessons to ensure literacy success.
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W w
OBJECTIVES
• To write W and w with correct formation
• To connect w in words
MULTISENSORY WARM-UP
Connection Inspection
Students’ bodies become the cursive letters and their arms the connections. Go to p. 143 for the full activity.
TEACH IT
Use Resources
Show the Tow Truck Letters w animation.
MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS
Review the meaning of tow by pointing to the picture. Write w, without the tow, on the board. Invite students to add the missing tow, as they say tow
AVAILABLE IN SPANISH! P. 88
1. Teach and Model
Demonstrate: w and W, words, and the sentence.
Start: Lowercase w starts on the mid line. Steps: Down and up, down and up, end with a tow. Start: Capital W starts in the top space. Steps: Down, travel, up, again, end.
2. Guided Practice Students finger trace the step-by-step models while saying the words. Monitor as they copy letters, words, and the sentence.
3. Check Letter and Sentence
Help students their letter for correct start, steps, and bump and their sentence for correct capitalization, word spacing, and end punctuation.
4. Read and Discuss Ask students to read the words and sentence on the page.
KNOWLEDGE BUILDING
READING CONNECTION
Phonics
Review that when the letter w follows the vowels a, e, and o, it is part of what is called a vowel digraph. Pronounce the sounds that aw and ew stand for and both sounds that ow stands for. Have students repeat.
Science: How Things Work
Model how a claw works by pinching your fingers to your thumb and then opening and closing. Have students repeat. Define claw as pincher-like legs on some animals. Have students think of how claws help an animal. (grabbing prey to eat)
Explicit Instruction [[]]
The letter lessons follow these steps:
1. Teach and Model
2. Guided Practice
3. Check Letter
4. Read and Discuss Knowledge Building]
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CAN-DO CURSIVE
Student Edition
Can-Do Cursive
Name
Designed for fifth-grade students and above, Can-Do Cursive gives students opportunities to develop fluency with cursive practice. Activities reinforce grammar skills, including punctuation, capitalization rules, and the parts of speech. Students practice independent writing with poetry, diary and journal notes, book reviews, and thank you notes.
GRADE: 5 DC-25 $13.50
Child-friendly language makes letter and number formation easy.
Step-by-step for cursive lowercase letters, too.
Illustrations are child-friendly, and fun to color.
Learn and Check for students to check letter, word, and sentence skills.
Mr. Justin Case
Cursive Wall Cards – Large models for above the board that show correct letter formations. See p. 36
Cursive Alphabet Desk Strips – Adhesive strip and visual clue for letter formation. See p. 36
Teacher’s Guide
The 2025 Edition teacher’s guides are designed to minimize teacher prep. Everything you need is on the physical or digital lesson page. Lessons provide all the words for explicit handwriting instruction to make it easy for new teachers. The multisensory activities, differentiation strategies, ideas for multilingual learners, and progress monitoring are on the teaching page. Reading Connections, Writing Connections, and Knowledge Building extend the lessons to ensure literacy success.
c, a, d, g
OBJECTIVE
To write cursive c, a, d, and g with correct formation
INTRODUCTION
Multilingual Learners
Extra language support to help learners understand the language in the lesson.
Support students’ cursive fluency by helping them apply what they know about cursive c to the formation of the cursive letters a d, and g. Ask students what the cursive letters c, a, d, and g have in common in terms of how they look and are formed.
MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS
Review the name of the character Mr. Justin Case. Explain that this name is a play on the phrase “just in case.” If possible, show an umbrella or raincoat. Show a picture of a sunny day, grab the umbrella, and say “just in case.”
Encourage students to share other examples of what they might do “just in case.”
1. Teach and Model Remind students’ that letters a d, and g begin by forming the cursive c Steps for c: Print c, travel away Steps for a: Print c, up, touch, down, travel away Steps for d: Print c, up, up higher, down, travel away Steps for g: Print c, up, touch, down, turn, aim for the corner, travel away
Explicit Instruction
The letter lessons follow these steps:
1. Teach and Model
2. Guided Practice
3. Check Letter
Writing Connection]
Practice handwriting along with writing conventions, sentence structure, grammar, and types of writing.
WRITING CONNECTION
Opinion Writing
Share this prompt and have students respond in their Writing Journals: Mr. Justin Case’s car is getting repaired at the shop. The mechanic informs Mr. Justin Case that the shop only accepts cash or check. He explains that the check needs to be signed in cursive to prevent problems at the bank. Do you agree or disagree with the mechanic? Clearly state your point of view and support it with reasons and information.
CURSIVE AND BEYOND
Student Edition
Cursive and Beyond
Name
Children working at the grade 6+ level develop speed and fluency with cursive lowercase and capital letter formations. Activities reinforce morphology to prepare students for increased reading and writing demands across content areas. Students write poetry, diary and journal notes, book reviews, and thank you notes.
GRADE: 6+ CAB-25 $13.50
Ms. Paige Turner
Child-friendly language makes letter and number formation easy.
Step-by-step for cursive lowercase letters, too.
Illustrations are child-friendly, and fun to color.
Learn and Check for students to check letter, word, and sentence skills.
Blackboard with Double Lines teaches letter fromation and placement on lines. See p. 34
Cursive Alphabet Desk Strips –Adhesive strip and visual clue for letter formation. See p. 36
Teacher’s Guide
Multilingual Learners
Extra language support to help learners understand the language in the lesson.
The 2025 Edition teacher’s guides are designed to minimize teacher prep. Everything you need is on the physical or digital lesson page. Lessons provide all the words for explicit handwriting instruction to make it easy for new teachers. The multisensory activities, differentiation strategies, ideas for multilingual learners, and progress monitoring are on the teaching page. Reading Connections, Writing Connections, and Knowledge Building extend the lessons to ensure literacy success.
GRADE: 6+ TGCAB-25 $49.95
OBJECTIVE
To write r, l, and f with correct formation
INTRODUCTION
Invite a volunteer to write r, f, and l in print. Then, have students look on the page to notice how different they look in cursive. Point out that when we write these letters in cursive, it’s not difficult to connect them to other letters that start on the baseline.
MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS
Talk about how travel, turn, and U-turn are used in the steps. Review travel up, travel away, turn, and U-turn. Have students share what they think each term means and confirm or clarify their understanding.
Writing Connection]
Practice handwriting along with writing conventions, sentence structure, grammar and types of writing.
WRITING CONNECTION
Descriptive Writing with Adjectives
1. Teach and Model
Lowercase r has a smile stroke. Remind students to keep the smile small, so r doesn’t turn into u
Steps for r: Travel up, smile, down, travel away
Lowercase l and f have a similar stroke pattern. Remind students to control the turn at the top, so the loop stays thin.
Steps for l: Travel up, turn, down, travel away Steps for f: Travel up, turn, down, U-turn, aim for the corner, touch, travel away
Provide a list of adjectives that begin with f, l, and r, such as: fascinating, fierce, flexible, lanky, lively, loyal, raw, reasonable, respectful. Have students confirm their meanings individually or in pairs. Then, they can choose three to five words to write a short paragraph that concretely describes something or someone.
Explicit Instruction
The letter lessons follow these steps:
1. Teach and Model 2. Guided Practice 3. Check Letter
Interactive Digital Teaching Tool
Our digital solution has all you need for easy lesson delivery with little planning and engaging teaching.
• Digital versions of the student edition and teacher’s guide
• Choose a digital application to teach—Wet-Dry-Try, letter and number formations, songs, articulation videos, teacher videos, or animations
• Select a dedicated developmental teaching order or adapt to your own
• Just-in-time micro-learning applicable to the lesson
• Assign student lessons
Technology for the Classroom
Digital Teaching Tools
Engage your students with our Interactive Digital Teaching Tool to minimize lesson prep and deliver dynamic lessons.
Formation Tools
Use our animated models, Wet-Dry-Try, Wood Pieces, and Letter and Number Formations. Children follow along by fingertracing the steps in the student edition. Available in English and Spanish, print and cursive.
A+ Worksheet Maker
Integrate the unique Handwriting Without Tears font and double lines into other classroom activities. Options include sentence writing, spelling, vocabulary, and graphic organizers. Name: mean been h four apple
Digital Student Experience
Assign work at home or school for instruction, remediation, or as a school-to-home connection. Students can submit a digital copy of their work for teacher review without collecting student editions. Includes teacher assignments, lessons, and digital tools.
Screener of Handwriting Proficiency
The screener is an easy-to-administer whole-class assessment that helps identify students who are struggling with handwriting. The screener is universal and can be used independently or as part of an RTI framework.
Use Wet-Dry-Try
Teacher models
Student traces wet with a small sponge cube
Student traces dry with a small paper towel
NEW! Letters to Words Blackboard Set
Use the Letters to Words Blackboard Set for fun, hand-on literacy learning that builds alphabet knowledge, phonological awareness, phonics, and handwriting skills. Students experience what they are learning with their own hands and are engaged with the teaching. Includes: Magnetic Blackboard, 52 magnetic lowercase letters, 22 magnetic hands, 7 magnetic sound tokens, and 5 magnetic hearts.
Grades: TK, K, 1 LWBS-25 $34.95
Student tries the letter with chalk
Blackboard with Double Lines
Teach children how to make and place all letters on double lines in both printing and cursive using the Wet-Dry-Try method. (17" x 10")
Grades: Pre-K–4 BB $8
Handwriting and Phonics
Practice phonics lessons and handwriting together using the Letters to Words Blackboard Set
Multimodality Instruction Engages & Excites Young Learners
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
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Little Sponge Cubes
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.
Grades: Pre-K–4+ SC $5.50
Slate Chalkboard
Teach and remediate capitals and numbers. The Slate Chalkboard reinforces top-to-bottom, left-to-right directionality and prevents and eliminates reversals.
(4" x 6")
Grades: Pre-K–1 SLT $5.95
Little Chalk Bits
Develop pincer grip and make writing easy for little hands.
Includes 200 (1") soft chalk pieces.
Grades: Pre-K–4+ LCB $6.95
Warning: Choking hazard. Small parts; not for children under 3 yrs.
Wet-Dry-Try App
Classroom Edition
• Practice formations based on our proven methodology
• Receive audio cues and feedback from a personal handwriting coach
• Personalize to individual needs
Includes +Live Insights®, the digital dashboard for classroom management and reports.
Grades: Pre-K–2 CLNAPP $3.99
Hands-On for the Classroom
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. The smiley face on the top left corner reminds them where to start. (8" x 11")
Grades: K–2 MAT $4.95
Wood Pieces Set for Capital Letters
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. (26 pieces)
Grade: Pre-K–K WP $37.95
Color Print and Number Wall Cards
Eye-catching letter and number cards promote correct formations.
GRADE: K–2 CPWC $24.95
Capital Letter Cards for Wood Pieces
Ideal for children who are just starting out with capital letters. Set includes 26 doublesided 8.5" x 11" cards, each featuring a letter recognition matching lesson.
Grades: Pre-K–K LAM $24.95
Mat Man Hands
With the Mat Man® foam hands, you can easily bring the beloved hero to life while developing body awareness, drawing and counting skills.
Grades: Pre-K–K MMH $4.95
Cursive Wall Cards
Black and white cards promote correct cursive letter formations. Includes 19 letter and number cards, each 11" x 8.5".
GRADE: 2–5 CDC $12.95
Print 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".
GRADE: K–2 PAS $1.95
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".
GRADE: 2–5 CAS $1.95
Hands-On Writing Kits for Each Student
Individual Student Manipulative Packs
Give each child their own bundle of quality crafted manipulatives for engaging handwriting practice. These individual student packs come with everything your learners need to stay safe with handson instruction.
• Wood Pieces: 4 Big Lines, 3 Big Curves, 3 Little Lines, 3 Little Curves (needed to build all capital letters)
• Mat for Wood Pieces (1)
• Slate Chalkboard (1)
• Little Sponge Cubes (2)
• Little Chalk Bits (4)
• Pencils for Little Hands (2)
• Large Plastic Bag (1)
• Instructions
Grade: Pre-K–5
SMKB-25 $524.95 for 25 packs
SMKB-10 $224.95 for 10 packs
Choking hazard. Small parts; not for children under 3 yrs.
Individual Student Manipulative Pack with Student Edition
This option includes everything in the Individual Student Manipulative Pack plus the grade-level student edition workbook offering.
Grade: Pre-K HLPBSET-26 $34.95
Grade: Transitional K
Grade: K HLP25-LN $34.95
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Journals
These grade-level journals offer an organized tool for reading response and handwriting practice. Journal writing helps children process feelings, build writing skills, and communicate their ideas.
Get full-page double- and single-line practice—now with 80 pages!
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2025 Edition Teacher Kits TK–4
These teacher kits are designed with educators in mind. We do the work for you by making handwriting instruction easy to implement, so you are positioned for classroom success. Each kit includes a Teacher’s Guide. The Interactive Digital Teaching Tool is free with the purchase of 20+ student editions ($250 value).
The Handwriting Classroom Kits include everything needed to bring letters to life and reinforce handwriting lessons, including hands-on manipulatives to develop fine and gross motor skills for handwriting.
Transition to Kindergarten/Kindergarten
Classroom Kit
Grade: TK-K TK-KCLASS-25 $399.95, a $499 value
Kit Includes:
• Wood Pieces Set for Capital Letters (6)
• Capital Letter Cards for Wood Pieces
• Mat for Wood Pieces (6)
• Mat Man Hands
• Mat Man Poster
• Slate Chalkboards (6)
• Letters to Words Blackboard Set (3)
• Blackboard with Double Lines (3)
• Little Chalk Bits
• Little Sponge Cubes
Occupational Therapist Kit
OT-KIT $209.95, a $259 value
Kit Includes:
• Wood Pieces Set for Capital Letters
• Mat for Wood Pieces (2)
• Slate Chalkboard (2)
• Blackboard with Double Lines (2)
• Stamp & See Screen (2)
• Roll-A-Dough Letters (2)
• Wide Double Line Notebook Paper
• Gray Bock Paper
• Pencils for Little Hands
• Little Chalk Bits
• Little Sponge Cubes
• Canvas Tote Bag
Grade 1 Classroom Kit
Grade: 1 1CLASS-25 $124.95, a $203 value
Kit Includes:
• Slate Chalkboards (6)
• Letters to Words Blackboard Set (3)
• Blackboard with Double Lines (3)
• Little Chalk Bits
• Little Sponge Cubes
Grade 2–4 Classroom Kit
Grade: 2-4 2-4CLASS-25 $54.95, a $114 value
Kit Includes:
• Blackboard with Double Lines (6)
• Little Chalk Bits
• Little Sponge Cubes
Other Kits for Students
Fit letters together. You have stories to tell! Time to Write
lowercase letters
How big? Where do they go?
Some
Some go below the line.
Ready for Writing Lowercase Poster Set
Lowercase letters help students with size and placement of letters on lines. Time to Write shows step-by-step formations, how letters fit together to make words, spacing for sentences, and success on any style of paper.
GRADE: TK–2 RFWPOST $9.95
Connecting Cursive Poster Set
Make the Handwriting Without Tears cursive letter formation models a part of your classroom décor with this vibrant poster set that explains how to connect cursive letters to form words and sentences on any type of classroom paper.
GRADE: 2–6+ CURPOST $9.95
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").
Grades: K–4+ DSS $14.95
Double Line Chart Tablet
Designed for use with a classroom easel. Includes set of 2 tablets with 30 sheets per tablet. (24" x 32")
Grades: K–4+ TAB $37.95
Double Line Writer
Draw lines on chalkboards or dry erase boards for letter, word, and sentence practice.
Grades: Pre-K–4+ DBLW $9.50
Building Writers Writing Practice Builds Literacy
Writing practice has a positive impact on reading, enhancing a student’s ability to read text accurately, fluently, and with comprehension.*
With a developmental approach to writing, an intuitive design, and everything for supplemental writing practice in one activity workbook, Building Writers is an easy-to-use student resource for increasing literacy.
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Updated Pre-K Readiness & Writing for 2025!
Prepare your Pre-K students for school success by giving them essential prewriting and foundational skills. Hands-on materials, student editions that align with Handwriting Without Tears, and the same digital interface you use in handwriting highlight the updates.
Essential Foundational Skills for all Learners
• Emergent writing skills
• Capital letters
• Lowercase letters
• Social-emotional skills
From coloring and drawing to pre-writing with capitals and lowercase, students receive a strong early literacy foundation, preparing them for the rigors of elementary school and the years ahead.
Readiness & Writing Kits
Available in March
Get everything you need to start building toward emergent writing success. Kit includes a choice of either 20 of My First School Books or My First Book Sets, 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. GRADE: Pre-K RWMFKIT-26 $869.95 RWBSETKIT-26 $924.99
Readiness & Writing Pre-K Teacher’s Guide
Available in March
• Child-friendly language makes letter and number formations easy
• Social-emotional activities are included for school readiness
• Color, number, and shape lessons develop grip and fine motor skills
In Spanish! p. 89
This guide to teaching emergent writing and general readiness skills addresses alphabet knowledge, letter and number recognition, capital and lowercase letter formation, counting, drawing, shapes, and colors.
• 8" x 11" spiral-bound teacher’s guide, approximately 250 pages
• Activities for My First School Book, My First Lowercase Book, and I Know My Numbers
• Multisensory activities for hands-on learning
• Additional educator resources
Readiness & Writing
Fun & Effective Multisensory Resources
All items also available in Spanish!
FLIP Crayons®
Promote proper grip and fine motor skills by flipping our unique FLIP Crayons. 10 colors are included—2 colors per crayon. (non-toxic crayons)
Grades: Pre-K-K FC (Tub of 206 Crayons) $24.95
FGS20 (Gift Set of 20 Mini Packs) $18.95
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. The smiley face on the top left corner reminds them where to start. (8" x 11")
Grades: Pre-K–K MAT $4.95
Wood Pieces Set for Capital Letters
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. (26 pieces)
Grade: Pre-K–K WP $37.95
Capital Letter Cards for Wood Pieces
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.
Grades: Pre-K–K LAM $24.95
Roll-A-Dough Letters®
Children roll lines and curves of dough to make capitals and numbers using the blue tray for guidance. Set includes 18 double-sided capital and number cards, tray, and 12-ounce tub of dough. (non-toxic dough)
Grade: Pre-K RAD $21.95
Stamp & See Screen®
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, chalk-like writing tool helps develop grip.
Grade: Pre-K SAS $17.95
Choking hazard—Small
Slate Chalkboard
Teach and remediate capitals and numbers. The Slate Chalkboard reinforces top-to-bottom, left-to-right directionality and prevents and eliminates reversals. (4" x 6")
Grades: Pre-K–1 SLT $5.95
Pre-K Color Wall Cards
Includes 36 eye-catching letter and number cards that promote correct formations. (8.5" x 11")
Grades: Pre-K-TK WCCPK $24.95
Magic C Bunny Puppet
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
Grades: Pre-K-3 BUN $27.95
Pre-K Name Plates
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 boards, or cubbies.
Grades: Pre-K-TK NP $12.95
Magnetic Lowercase & Blackboard Set
Children learn letter size and placement using magnetic hands and letters, while boosting alphabet knowledge and phonemic awareness.
Grades: Pre-K–K MLBS-20 $30.95
My Book Activity Book
Children learn about books through drawing, storytelling, and personalizing their own story in this 20-page book.
Bring your classroom to life with everyone’s favorite friend, Mat Man!
Build Mat Man®
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.
Mat Man Teaches:
• Body awareness
• Sequence skills
• Drawing and pre-writing
• Socializing and sharing
• Size recognition
• Counting
• Building
• Placement
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 2
Teacher gives Mat Man body parts to the children, who then build Mat Man piece by piece.
Classroom accessories, such as bottle caps for eyes and nose, can make Mat Man more personalized.
3 4
Children watch as the teacher draws a large Mat Man on a board or easel, each part in order.
Children take turns drawing Mat Man and adding other details to their drawings.
Get everything you need to build Mat Man in one handy kit. Grades: Pre-K–K BMM $109.95
Mat Man Book Set
Children learn readiness and language arts skills with this fourbook, boxed set, including Mat Man Shapes, Mat Man Hats, Mat Man On the Go, and Mat Man Opposites Includes free Mat Man poster. Grades: Pre-K–K MMBS $69.95
Build Mat Man Kit
Classroom Kits
Set for School® Readiness & Writing
Get ready to roll up your sleeves and have fun in the classroom! We’ve put together grade-level kits with all our favorite multisensory, hands-on materials for active teaching.
Readiness & Writing Kit with My First School Book
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Readiness & Writing Kit with My First Book Set
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Get Set for School Pre-K Curriculum
• A complete Pre-K program that includes Readiness & Writing along with language, literacy, numbers, math, science and social studies
• Students are taught developmentally, building on what they already know
• Lessons are written in a child-friendly voice that connects with students
• Multisensory lessons break difficult concepts into simple tasks
• Hands-on, play-based materials that make students WANT to learn
• Instruction pacing guide for for all Pre-K settings
• Educator resources, including school-to-home connections, book connections, Pre-K assessments
Aligns to NAEYC Standards and Head Start Framework
36 award-winning trade books with an activity for each title
Multisensory and developmentally appropriate lessons address each learning area children need to get ready for kindergarten
Specially designed and unique manipulatives actively engage little learners in lessons
THE EDTECH AWARDS
Pre-K Interactive
PROGRAM
Includes Learning and Play 3-year-old resource guide
Easy-to-learn and easy-toteach activities provide a scaffolded approach for deeper understanding
Teacher’s guides and student activity books bring learning to life with targeted, explicit instruction
Digital apps appropriately introduce little learners to technology
Use Get Set for School Assessments to Guide Instruction
With Get Set for School (GSS), monitoring your students' performance has never been easier. IDTT, the Interactive Digital Teaching Tool, includes assessments across all learning areas for Pre-K.
You Will Be Able To:
IDENTIFY
skills your students need to improve ENABLE
data-driven enhancements for your instruction
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student reports and share with families and administrators
ORGANIZE your assessments through a digital dashboard
ENSURE student success over time with digital progress monitoring
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Full curriculum is available in English and Spanish!
Language & Literacy
Readiness & Writing
Physical Development
Learning Domains
Essential Areas of Instruction for Ensuring School Readiness
Numbers & Math
Science & Social Studies
SocialEmotional Learning
Skills learned in Pre-K set up a domino effect for
Unit 3: Week 16: Day 1
Focus: Letter G and Number 6
Objective: Children put a spoken word into a sentence.
Grouping: Small group
Build Sentences with Words
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.
2. Place the Sound Around Box and color tiles on table.
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.
4. Demonstrate first: Goats (place color tile), eat (place another color tile), and grass (place another color tile). Have all children repeat the sentence.
5. Children take turns placing color tiles on the Sound Around Box, as you tell them a sentence.
Check for Understanding: Observe as children listen for and build sentences. Can they say the sentence after they listen to the words?
Support/ELL: Begin the activity with two-word action sentences. For example, I hop.
Enrichment: Challenge children by having them make up their own sentences as they place the color tiles for each word of their sentence.
Materials:
• Sound Around Box)
o Color Tiles
• App, Sound Around Letters, G
THESE ACTIVITIES HELP EARLY LEARNERS DEVELOP LITERACY SKILLS JOYFULLY.
Objective: Children learn how to build and sequence capital letters correctly.
Grouping: Whole group, small group
Learn G Using Capitals with the Letter Cards & the Mat for Wood Pieces
Multisensory Introduction: Sing and move to “Where do You Start Your Letters?”
1. Review G and its sound.
2. Show letter card. Name the picture and “read” the word.
3. Gather the Wood Pieces.
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.
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.
Enrichment: Find objects around the room that begin with G
Vocabulary
letter G, color words, goats, grass, green
Get Set for School Curriculum Kits
Get everything you need for Pre-K success all in one kit! Kit includes every literacy and math manipulative, 20 of My Book and I Know My Numbers per kit, a choice of 20 My First School Books or My First Book Sets, 20 licenses of Get Set for School Student Learning Apps, and an annual license for the Pre-K Interactive 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.
Materials:
• Wood Pieces Set for Capital Letters
• Capital Letter Card: Letter G
• Mat for Wood Pieces (1 per child)
• PreKTT, Music, “Where do You Start Your Letters?”
• PreKTT, Animations, Wood Pieces, G
We’re Learning
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
Vocabulary
letter G, capital letters, Big Curve, Little Line, right-side, up, top, bottom
NUMBERS & MATH
Materials:
• Know My Numbers Booklet 6
(1 per child)
• Flip Crayons
• Objects to Count Beginning with Letter G
• PreKTT, Music, “The Ant, the Bug and the Bee”
We’re Learning:
Demonstrate active listening
Match 1:1, verbally count 1-10
Use same hand consistently to hold tool, hold a tool with proper grip to write, use helping hand to stabilize object
Trace correctly, step by step, color and draw creatively
Vocabulary
six, count, ants, bug, bee
ORAL LANGUAGE
Materials:
• Squawker
• Word Cards: invite/visit
• PreKTT, Music, “Letters Together Make Words”
We’re Learning:
Take turns, remain engaged, listen/ follow directions
Understand print has meaning
Repeat words, say sentences, demonstrate understanding of word meaning
Objective: Children learn math by coloring, counting, building, rhyming, singing, and playing using I Know My Numbers.
Grouping: Whole group, small group
Review 6 Using I Know My Numbers
Multisensory Introduction: Sing “The Ant, the Bug and the Bee.”
1. Review 6 and count 6 objects that begin with S
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
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.
Enrichment: Have children review numbers 1–6
Objective: Children learn two action verbs, say the words in sentences and use them in conversation.
Grouping: Whole group Verbs: Invite/Visit
invite visit
1. Look Say the words with Squawker. 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.”
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?
Get Set for School Pre-K Teacher’s Guide: Unit 3 Lesson Plans 215
PROGRAM
Get Set for School Pre-K Teacher’s Guide Set
The 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.
• 36 weeks of daily lessons: 6 content themes divided into 6 weeks each
Grade: Pre-K TGPKGSS-21 $249.95
Pre-K
Grade: Pre-K MFSB-26 $13.50
Children learn pre-writing and capitals with My First School Book and learn lowercase letters with My First Lowercase Book in this two-book set.
Grade: Pre-K BSET-26 $16.50
Accessibility Options for Pre-K Programs
The
Pre-K Interactive Digital Teaching Tool
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. The Pre-K Interactive Teaching Tool reduces teacher prep time and is compatible with any whiteboard or projector. Get your children ready for kindergarten with fun readiness lessons!
Also available with the Readiness & Writing Pre-K Teacher’s Guide.
GRADE: Pre-K PREKITT-GSS $360
New Assessment Tools
Get Set for School’s digital components have been updated with new features to meet WCAG
2.0 Level AA standards, including:
• Closed captions
• Ability to zoom screen and text
• Image and screen tagging
• Use of keyboard and mouse
• Pause and control volume
• Ability to skip activities that specific impairments may make impossible to complete
GSS Student
Learning Apps
Sold with the Get Set for School Curriculum Kit. Also sold separately. Grade: Pre-K GSSAPPS $6
Wet-Dry-Try
Bring the multisensory genius of our Slate Chalkboard and Blackboard with Double Lines to your device.
Sound Around Letters
Children identify, match, and say capital and lowercase letters, their sounds, and words beginning with the target letter.
Touch & Flip Numbers
Children identify, match, count, say, trace, and write numbers 1–20 with interactive games and familiar Get Set for School activities.
Oral Language for Pre-K
Now with Illustrations
A-B-C Touch & Flip® Cards
Children learn to recognize letters, match letter sounds, and sequence using the puzzle side. The “flip” feature promotes self-checking.
A-B-C Touch & Flip Cards include two alphabet decks—one for capital and lowercase matching, and one for tactile lessons and puzzle building.
Grades: Pre-K–TK ABCTFC $24.95
My Book Activity Book
Children learn about books through drawing, storytelling, and personalizing their own story in this 20-page book.
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.
Grade: Pre-K WT-20 $54.95
Read-Aloud Trade Book Library
Classic and familiar titles by award-winning authors enrich the Get Set for School Read-Aloud Trade Book Library Pack. The teacher’s guide includes tips for effectively integrating the literature in your Pre-K classroom. Available in English, Spanish, and Dual Language.
Line It Up™
Available in Dual Language
All items also available in Spanish!
Sound Around Box™
Teach letter and sound connections alongside correct orientation and position of letters, with narrative sequencing and other literacy skills.
• Includes stories with a beginning, middle, and end
• Builds vocabulary and comprehension skills
Uses stories, pictures, conversation starters, and word chants to promote early language and motor skills.
Grade: Pre-K LIU $79.95
The most versatile way to teach language concepts and social skills!
• Combines multisensory play with games and activities that build letter and number recognition
• Develops rhyming, syllable, listening, and cooperation skills with lessons and engaging tiles
Grade: Pre-K SBOX $121.95
Available in Spanish!
Warning: Choking hazard. Small parts; not for children under 3 yrs.
I Know My Numbers Activity Booklets
Children develop number formation skills with songs and rhymes. 10 booklets in the set, 1 booklet for each number 1–10, each with 14 pages.
Tag Bags include fastener options, like zippers and buckles, along with numbers up to 10. Promote early math skills, like matching and sorting, and foster fine motor skills.
Grade: Pre-K TB-20 $104.95
Warning: Choking hazard—Small parts; not for children under 3 yrs.
Magnetic Lowercase & Blackboard Set
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. (15" x 11")
Grades: Pre-K–2 MLBS-20 $30.95
Numbers & Math Pre-K Teacher’s Guide
Includes lessons for geometry, counting, math vocabulary, measurement, time, and problemsolving. Integrated assessments check student learning after each lesson.
Grade: Pre-K TGNM-22 $39.95
1-2-3 Touch & Flip® Cards
Children learn to recognize numbers, count and sequence using the puzzle side. The “flip” promotes self checking, The 1-2-3 Touch & Flip Cards include numbers 0–20 (21 animal cards and 21 counter cards. 4" x 6.25"). Grades:
Lively and engaging music and songs help young learners better understand complex pre-writing and math concepts as they are reinforced through movement and fun.
4 Squares More Squares
Children sort, sequence, slide, turn, and flip shapes to fit puzzle pieces on 24 different patterns. Box contains an activity booklet with 10 activities, 12 pattern boards, and 84 shape pieces in 6 bright colors.
Grade: Pre-K 4SMS $109.95
Mix & Make Shapes™
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.
Grade: Pre-K MIX $36.95
Sing, Sound & Count With Me
Music Album
Reinforce language and number concepts with your children as they move and play to 29 upbeat songs.
Grade: Pre-K COUNT $16.95
Get Set for School Sing Along
Music Album
Children sing, tap, and dance along to 25 songs to develop important social, cognitive, and physical skills.
Grade: Pre-K SING $16.95
Rock, Rap, Tap & Learn
Music Album
Children develop self-esteem and body awareness as they rock along to 25 songs.
Grades: K-2 ROCK $16.95
Original, lively songs by Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer, back-to-back Grammy® Award winners for Best Children’s Album.
PHONICS, Reading, Me PHONICS, Reading, Me and and ™
Personalized Phonics, Powerful Results
Phonics, Reading, and Me is a supplemental solution that provides targeted, systematic, and explicit instruction in the context of carefully crafted decodable texts. This research-based program offers extra support in phonics and phonological awareness through scaffolded practice—in small group instruction—to ensure students can read connected text independently.
1 2 3 Target Apply Adapt
Tools to Model Instruction
Phonics, Reading, and Me zeroes in on the most critical phonics and word study skills, backed by research, to ensure reading success. With step-by-step guidance, it equips both new and seasoned teachers to confidently model and teach foundational literacy skills.
Texts to Practice Skills
Phonics, Reading, and Me introduces skills and then immediately moves students to practice reading in 5 decodable texts, reinforcing decoding while building knowledge. These engaging fiction and nonfiction texts ensure students practice skills in context, deepening their skills proficiency and fluency.
Personalized Supports
Phonics, Reading, and Me supports and scaffolds are offered in the digital practice for those students who need more reinforcement based on their reading proficiency. Leveled lesson card scripting allows teachers to support students according to their need. This approach ensures all students get the right application to build grade-level proficiency.
Expanded for 2025: Kindergarten
First Half of the Year
The first half of kindergarten is setting your students up for success with letter-sound learning and classroom routines. These lessons focus on letter-sound correspondence and phonemic awareness.
READ ALOUD BOOKS
Cement letter-sounds
LESSON CARDS
Teach skills and scaffold supports
•
DECODABLE BOOKS AND MINI BOOKS
Apply new letter-sounds in early decodable texts
At the Market
Second Half of the Year
The second half of kindergarten continues to apply key phonics skills within connected texts. These lessons focus on decoding, encoding, fluency, and building knowledge.
STUDENT DIGITAL
Students
READ ALOUD BOOKS
LESSON CARDS
Teach
Around Town
DECODABLE BOOKS AND MINI BOOKS
Apply new phonics skills in decodable texts
Phonics, Reading, and Me Sets B, C, and D
From building a strong foundation in Set A, students move sequentially along their learning progression. Across sets B, C, and D they progress from securing fundamental phonics skills to morphological awareness and reading longer, more complex words and texts.
LESSON CARDS
Teach skills and scaffold supports
TEACHER DIGITAL
Resources, Assigning, and Reporting
STUDENT DIGITAL
Students receive personalized practice to attain skills Predators:
DECODABLE BOOKS AND MINI BOOKS
Apply phonics skills in rich connected text
Reading Response
Sound-Spelling Cards
Read Aloud Cards
Letter Tiles (Set B) and Word Cards (Set C and D)
Student Digital Practice
Technology cannot replace the teacher—but it can complement teachers and help bridge the gap for students who need additional help.
The Phonics, Reading, and Me digital pathing follows a “scaffolding up” approach to help students acquire skills and become independent with grade-level skills—rather than holding students back.
The print resources link seamlessly with technology to personalize supports and yield actionable insight for educators—reporting on individual student-level growth through district-level growth.
Data from speech-enabled oral readings helps drive personalized pathing. Based on performance, the system will place each student on a path with just-right content and supports.
Phonics, Reading, and Me (PRM) demonstrated statistically significant impact on high-utility phonics skill growth among K–3rd grade students in an efficacy study conducted by LearnPlatform, resulting in Promising Evidence ESSA Level III. Students’ literacy skill proficiency grew significantly over the course of PRM’s lesson sequence. Those students who started with below-level literacy skills increased at a faster rate compared to other students over the course of PRM’s lesson sequence.
Link to full report: LWTears.com/PRMresearch
Stretch Content
Accelerated learning may include longer texts or activities with more complex words.
On Level
All students practice the lesson skill in word reading games and a choice of decodable texts.
Scaffolded Support
As-needed supports may include strategic re-reads or activities that break down a skill.
Classroom Kits
These classroom kits are designed with educators in mind. Materials work together to make teaching early literacy skills straightforward and effective. Each kit includes all the resources you need to teach the most important foundational literacy skills with confidence.
Set A, Grade K
Phonemic awareness, alphabet knowledge, and early phonics
• Student Digital: personalized practice – 25 Licenses
Phonics, Reading, and Me Decodable Books
Decodable texts play a crucial role in building reading independence by providing learners with the opportunity to apply their understanding of letter-sound relationships and phonetic patterns to decode unfamiliar words. Our decodable texts are:
• Carefully constructed to include a high volume of skills words
• Themed for content knowledge and vocabulary building
• Engaging fiction stories and nonfiction texts that motivate and entertain young readers
• Reflective of rich cultural diversity of our students and their communities
Affordable Decodable Text Sets
BUILD KEY PHONICS and word study skills
The Cat Van
(5.5" x 8")
SKILLS SEQUENCE
that goes up to Grade 2 and Grade 3, including multisyllable words and morphology.
ORGANIZED BY THEME to build knowledge and vocabulary
VARIED GENRES
Rich, relatable stories and themed nonfiction texts
Hot test, Coldest, Deepest
Decodable Book Sets
Use these books following a systematic scope and sequence of instruction to give students ample opportunities to practice decoding. These books are offered in 6-packs so they work perfectly with your small group rotation. Mini books can be sent home for practice with families, or used for independent practice in class.
Arrives in a plastic bin for easy classroom organization.
Snails stick to nails, pails, rails, and stems!
Snails will not drop to the
Set A–Expanded for 2025 available in May 10 New Decodable Books!
Decodable Books, Set A
DCA-26 20 titles (6 pack of each) $349 (Full color 5.5" x 8")
Black and White Mini Books
MBA-SET $149
20 titles (4.2" x 6.2", 25 copies of each)
Decodable Books, Set B
DCB 20 titles (6 pack of each) $349 (Full color 5.5” x 8”)
Black and White Mini Books
MBBBOX-SM $149
20 titles (3.5" x 5", 25 copies of each)
Decodable Books, Set C
DCC 20 titles (6 pack of each) $349 (Full color 5.5” x 8”)
Black and White Mini Books
MBCBOX-SM $149
20 titles (3.5" x 5", 25 copies of each)
Decodable Books, Set D
DCD 20 titles (6 pack of each) $349 (Full color 5.5” x 8”)
Black and White Mini Books
MBDBOX-SM $149
20 titles (3.5" x 5", 25 copies of each)
i Ri s The Cat Van
The Cat Van
The oy of etal Arts An Artist in the City
Keyboarding Without Tears® uses a patented approach to support all students in grades K–5 master the critical, 21st century skill of keyboarding.
Proven Technique for Teaching an
Essential Life Skill
Today’s students need keyboarding skills more than ever before. Keyboarding Without Tears is a digital curriculum that nurtures proper keyboarding technique and online test-taking skills through multimodal lessons, leading to success at the keyboard and beyond.
What sets us apart?
• Students work independently
• Patented home row instruction
• Game-based lessons build typing fluency and speed
• Developmental progression of lessons
• Cross-curricular content
• Tech readiness activities
• Digital citizenship lessoons from Common Sense Education
Assessment Accelerator
These teacher-scheduled online testing modules for students in grades 3–5 build familiarity and confidence in the computer-based testing environment.
Reports provide educators with data on where students may require additional practice. Each module can be scheduled more than once to focus on Math, ELA, or combined Math & ELA.
Delivering Results That Matter
Students are assessed throughout the 36-week instruction through Spot Check Challenges to measure speed and accuracy.
Depending on the grade level, and where students are in the curriculum, students will be assessed through skill checks in their ability to type letters, words, sentences, and paragraphs.
Visit LWTears.com to try all the grades!
Keyboarding Without Tears Activities
• Label Maker
• Fancy Formatting
• Build a Sentence
• Scrolled Secrets
• Math Master
Graphing
Construct a Response
Students
using Keyboarding Without Tears have a 43 percent higher average words-per-minute (WPM) score.
KINDERGARTEN
Keys for Me
• Develops fine motor skills
• Teaches keyboard and mouse functions
• Builds foundational skills
Grade: K KEYK $11
GRADE
3
Keyboarding
• Teaches computer-based testing skills
• Shows how to hone text formatting skills
• Introduces paragraph passages encouraging improved typing speed and accuracy
Grade: 3 KEY3 $11
GRADE 1
My Keying Board
• Strengthens drag and drop skills
• Develops finger-key association
• Practice typing letters and words
Grade: 1 KEY1 $11
GRADE 4
Keyboarding Success
• Reinforces typing speed and fluency
• Strengthens muscle memory
• Enhances language arts and creative writing abilities
Grade: 4 KEY4 $11
GRADE 2
Key Power
• Builds typing muscle memory
• Teaches the entire keyboard
• Learn punctuation, action and number keys while typing sentences
Grade: 2 KEY2 $11
GRADE 5
Can-Do Keyboarding
• Supports mastery of typing accuracy and speed
• Helps students handle standards and testing in higher grades
• Includes typing paragraphs with engaging cross-curricular themes
Grade: 5 KEY5 $11
The +Live Insights digital dashboard enables administrators and educators to:
• Access video support for setup and getting started
• Manage class and student settings
• Leverage teacher-led digital citizenship and literacy lessons
• Obtain student reports and monitor progress
• Enable enrichment activities and create your own activities
Web-based technology works with Clever, Google Single Sign-On (SSO), ClassLink OneClick/OneRoster, PCs/Macs, Chromebooks, and iPads.
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Build a Keyboard Activity Board
Leveraging all we know about multisensory learning, we’ve applied it to teaching keyboarding. Children learn how to locate, match, and identify letter, number, and action keys on an 11" x 17" magnetic board.
Grade: K–2 BK $24.95
Warning: Choking hazard small parts; not for children under 3 yrs.
Comencemos con kinder Guía para al maestro
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i primer libro escolar
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The Interactive Digital Teaching Tool is available for all grades in Spanish!
Cursiva y más allá
Grade: 6+ S6CMA-25 $13.50
Cursiva y más allá
Guía para al maestro
Grade: 6+ STGS6CMA-25 $49.95
LEARNERS
Get Set for School Set de guía para maestros de prekínder
Grade: Pre-K STGPKGSS-21 $249.95
Mi primer libro escolar Set*
Grade: Pre-K SBSET-26 $16.50
Preparación y escritura:
Guía para maestros de prekínder*
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Mi primer libro escolar*
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Interactive Digital Teaching Tool
A digital teaching platform, available Pre-K through 6th grade (see pp. 32–33).
Grade: Pre-K IDTT-RW-26 $250
Grade: TK IDTT-TK25 $250
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Las Tiras de papel de color les dan a los niños de kínder, primer y segundo grado el modelo correcto para escribir su nombre. Colócalas en escritorios, casilleros, cubículos o pizarras. Escribe los nombres de los niños usando un marcador negro permanente. Si el espacio lo permite, incluye el apellido o su letra inicial. Las líneas dobles de Handwriting Without Tears se extienden a través del espacio del nombre. Ellas proporcionan la forma más fácil para que los niños aprendan el inicio, la ubicación y la proporción correcta de las letras. Las mini tarjetas coloridas del alfabeto rodean el espacio del nombre. La ilustración alegre de cada letra promueve la identificación de su sonido inicial. El alfabeto proporciona a los niños modelos para todas sus letras, mayúsculas y minúsculas. Color Name Plates están diseñadas para que los nombres de los niños estén escritos en manera de oración (comenzando con mayúscula, siguiendo luego con minúscula). El escribir los nombres de esta forma facilita la transición de los niños de kinder, en lugar de hacerlo en mayúscula.
Spanish Readiness & Writing Kit with Spanish My First School Book
Grade: Pre-K SRWMFKIT-26 $869.95
Spanish Readiness & Writing Kit with Spanish My First Book Set
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Spanish Readiness and Writing Hands-On Kit
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Get Set for School Complete Pre-K Program, Dual Language with My First Book Set
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Spanish Transition to Kindergarten Teacher’s Kit (2025)
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Size
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LEARNERS
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Spanish TTK-K Classroom Kit (2025)
Grade:
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Letter Building Kit for Little Learners
• Stamp and See
• Wood Pieces (14)
• Mat for Wood Pieces (1)
• Slate Chalkboard (1)
• Little Sponge Cubes (2)
• Little Chalk Bits (4)
• Pencils for Little Hands (2)
• At-Home Learning Guide
• Drawstring Storage Bag
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I Can Write My Letters
• My First School Book
• Wood Pieces (14)
• Mat for Wood Pieces (1)
• Slate Chalkboard (1)
• Little Sponge Cubes (2)
• Little Chalk Bits (4)
• Pencils for Little Hands (2)
• Flip Crayons (non-toxic) (4)
• At-Home Learning Guide
• Drawstring Storage Bag
GRADE: Pre-K ELP-ICW $29.99, a $42 value
Ready for Kindergarten!
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• Wood Pieces (14)
• Mat for Wood Pieces (1)
• Slate Chalkboard (1)
• Little Sponge Cubes (2)
• Little Chalk Bits (4)
• Pencils for Little Hands (2)
• At-Home Learning Guide
• Drawstring Storage Bag
GRADE: PRE-K ELP-RK $34.99, a $53 value
Early Childhood Pack
• 26 Alphabet Books
• Wood Pieces (14)
• Mat for Wood Pieces (1)
• Slate Chalkboard (1)
• Little Sponge Cubes (2)
• Little Chalk Bits (4)
• Pencils for Little Hands (2)
• At-Home Learning Guide
• Drawstring Storage Bag
GRADE: Pre-K ELP-ECP $39.99, a $53 value
Early Math Learning Pack
• I Know My Numbers Activity Booklet
• ABC Touch & Flip Cards
• Wood Pieces (14)
• Mat for Wood Pieces (1)
• Slate Chalkboard (1)
• Little Sponge Cubes (2)
• Little Chalk Bits (4)
• Pencils for Little Hands (2)
• At-Home Learning Guide
• Drawstring Storage Bag
GRADE: Pre-K ELP-EML $34.99, a $59 value
Take Home Phonics Decodable Readers
Family and Community Engagement Bundles
Take Home Phonics Mini Books (3.5” x 5”)
Send students home with mini black and white versions of decodable readers.
Take Home Phonics Readers Set A for K (10 decodable mini-books)
THPRMB-A $12.99
Take Home Phonics Readers Set C for 2nd grade (20 decodable mini-books)
THPRMB-C $17.99
Take Home Phonics Readers Set B for 1st grade (20 decodable mini-books)
THPRMB-B $17.99
Take Home Phonics Readers Set D for 3rd grade (20 decodable mini-books)
THPRMB-D $17.99
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More Literacy
Bring Letter Learning to Life with a classroom set of 156 alphabet letter books, 26 teacher readers, a teacher’s guide, Mat Man and the Great Alphabet Parade, and 20 practice books.
$24.99, a $49.95 value Mat Man and the Great Alphabet Parade
In Person
Bringing expert-led workshops to a city near you! Reinforce your skills through hands-on learning to build foundational writing skills.
• Earn up to 6 contact hours (.6 CEUs)
• Collaborate and network with peers in your region
• Take home a FREE bag of our latest learning materials
Live Virtual
Choose from a variety of topics to connect and learn from your home or work location at a time that works best for you.
• Select flexible times that align with your schedule
• Engage and collaborate via our online learning platform
• Easily review content when needed at any time
On Demand
Take advantage of maximum flexibility to learn at your convenience.
Set your own schedule
Learn at your own pace, pause as needed
Leverage cost-effectiveness
Engaging Workshops
Learning Without Tears offers hundreds of learning experiences each year through live-virtual, ondemand, and in-person instruction that helps you learn and earn credit hours in a way that best meets your schedule. Our professional learning sessions are open for all educators, practitioners, and families to fuel success in Pre-K–5 classrooms.
Early Learning
Get Set for School (Pre-K)
• Provides an overview of the Get Set for School complete curriculum
• Get research-based instructional strategies in early literacy, readiness, writing, math, oral language, science, and social studies
• Experience play-based instruction with multimodal and connected learning for whole-class and centerbased models
Reading
A–Z for Mat Man and Me (Pre-K–1)
• Learn how to accelerate letter learning and integrate phonological awareness and phonics skills through systematic and explicit instructional activities in small groups
• Build social-emotional habits, oral language, and meaning-making skills
• Leverage digital assets to bring alphabet learning to life
Phonics, Reading, and Me (K–3)
• Teach phonics and other high utility skills systematically and explicitly
• Scaffold phonics instruction to meet the diverse needs of students at varying levels
• Build knowledge to develop phonics, vocabulary, and comprehension skills with rich texts
Handwriting
Readiness & Writing (Pre-K)
• Use music, hands-on manipulatives, and technology to help children develop the emergent writing skills needed for kindergarten readiness
• Develop strategies for teaching grip, alphabet knowledge, and coloring skills in preparation for children to write letters, numbers, and their names
• Get purposefully designed materials to help children progress from coloring, tracing letters and numbers to writing their name
Handwriting Without Tears Print (K–2)
Please note: This learning experience serves as a prerequisite for the Handwriting Without Tears Targeted Print Instruction (K–2)
• Discover multisensory techniques and researchbased methods to make handwriting a natural and automatic skill for children
• See developmental teaching order, grip, the benefits of using double lines for instruction and practice, and integrating digital tools into daily instruction
• Learn the importance of the handwriting process as a means to teach or remediate letters, words, and sentences.
Handwriting Without Tears
Targeted Print Instruction (K–2)
• Identify six handwriting components that impact handwriting legibility
• Explore a handwriting sample and recognize the handwriting components that require targeted instruction.
• Create a personalized resource that identifies two or more multisensory activities that can be used to teach each of the following handwriting skills: grip, letter formation, letter orientation, letter size and placement, and spacing.
Handwriting Without Tears Cursive
e-Learning (2–5)
• Learn why to teach cursive in this age of technology, the benefits of a vertical style of cursive, childfriendly teaching order, and cursive connections
• Make cursive an automatic and natural skill for students of all ages and abilities by using engaging, multisensory techniques, and research-based methods
• Integrate digital tools into daily instruction, integrate writing activities to boost academic success
Handwriting Assessment (K–5)
• Administer and score the Screener of Handwriting Proficiency and The Print Tool® and choose remediation materials and strategies based on results
• Explore the seven basic handwriting components essential to handwriting success
• Understand different handwriting curricula, discover new handwriting resources, and use The Print Tool with various populations
Keyboarding
Keyboarding Without Tears (K–5)
• Review student lessons and learn how easy it is for students to fold keyboarding practice into their instructional day
• Review student lessons and learn how to seamlessly implement them into their instructional day and computer-based testing prep
• Use reporting tools to adapt and differentiate keyboarding instruction so students meet grade-level benchmarks
Professional Learning Options
You’ll find flexible participation options for all our workshops throughout 2025. Whether you get the most from in-person engagement, live-virtual sessions, or on-demand access, we provide professional learning that’s accessible and adaptable to suit your busy schedule and learning preferences.
Professional Learning Offerings
In-Person
*Register for both and save!
**Must have attended Handwriting Without Tears Print
Ways to Save
JOINING US IN PERSON?
Register 30+ days in advance and save 15% at checkout!
$329 $279
ENGAGING IN A LIVE VIRTUAL OR ON DEMAND WORKSHOP?
Use LEARNING25C to save 15%!
BUYING
MORE THAN ONE WORKSHOP?
Bundle 2 or more and save 25% with BUNDLE2025
BRINGING YOUR COLLEAGUES?
Group discounts are available! Reach out at coordinator@LWTears.com
In Person Learning
Handwriting Without Tears is bringing expert-led workshops to you! Join us on our tour and learn how to build the foundational writing skills your students need to succeed.
Why Learn In-Person?
EARN 3 contact hours (.3 CEUs)*
NETWORK with peers in your city
REINFORCE your skills through hands-on learning
TAKE HOME a bag of learning materials
Readiness & Writing
Discover how to use music, hands-on manipulatives, and technology to help children develop the emergent writing skills needed for kindergarten readiness. Learn strategies for teaching grip, alphabet knowledge, and coloring skills to better prepare children to write letters, numbers, and their names.
Handwriting Without Tears® Print
Explore our comprehensive, easy-to-use Handwriting Without Tears print curriculum. You’ll learn engaging, multisensory techniques to make handwriting a natural and automatic skill for your Grade K–2 students. Explore proper grip, writing skills, and learn how our digital tools can save you time in your daily instruction.
Start a Customized Learning Plan for Your School
Want to bring high-quality professional learning services straight to your school? Reach us at LWTears.com/PS and learn more!
In-Person Workshops Near You
Learning Without Tears is bringing its expert-led workshops across the country this summer. Join us and your local peers to learn how to build the foundational writing skills your students need to succeed.
6/11 Pheonix, AZ
6/12 New York City, NY
6/17 Dallas, TX
6/18 Atlanta, GA
6/25 Anaheim, CA
6/26 Cincinnati, OH
7/9 Nashville, TN
7/10 Denver, CO
7/16 Houston, TX
7/17 Kansas City, MO
7/23 East Bay Area, CA
7/24 Chicago, IL
7/30 Portland, OR
7/31 Oklahoma City, OK
8/6 Tampa, FL
8/7 Detroit, MI
8/13 Milwaukee, WI
8/14 Seattle, WA
8/20 Princeton, NJ
8/21 Boston, MA
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“Roxanne did an amazing job discussing and modeling different techniques that we can use in our classroom.”
