Learning Without Tears
"Millions of students all over the world use Handwriting Without Tears. Our easy-to-teach, easy-to-learn curriculum makes handwriting mastery joyful for students and their teachers.
Research supports the active teaching of handwriting. Recent findings demonstrate that writing by hand improves creative writing skills and fine motor skills. "
Handwriting Without Tears (HWT)
The Teaching Order of the Letters:
HWT -teaching order
Research supports the active teaching of handwriting. Recent findings demonstrate that writing by hand improves creative writing skills and fine motor skills. "
Handwriting Without Tears (HWT)
The Teaching Order of the Letters:
HWT -teaching order
The Four Basic Shapes: Big Line, Little line, Big Curve, Little Curve - These are the basic shapes used to form all of the uppercase letters. These lines provide the verbal directional cueing to form each letter.
Mat Man- From classroom personality to storybook hero, Mat Man™ is a favorite among young children. Children first meet this charming character through the Handwriting Without Tears® Build Mat Man activity. Mat Man teaches important readiness skills:
- Body awareness
- Drawing & pre-writing
- Counting
- Building
- Socializing & sharing
Where Do You Start Your Letters? "At the Top" - music song from HWT to remind students to start letter formations at the top.
Why do you teach capital letters first? - An explanation to understand why we teach capital or uppercase letters before lowercase letters.
- COPS
- Start all sentences with a capital letter
- Use a capital letter for the name of something
- Edit run-on sentences into 2 or more complete sentences
- Each sentence should end with a punctuation mark ( . ! ?)
- Put a space between every word