Learning Without Tears Spring 2020 Catalog

Product & Professional Development 2020 Catalog

When you’re ready, we’ll be here to help with the foundational resources your students need.

We get to the heart of teaching and learning.

Early Learning Handwriting Keyboarding and more

3 million+ ...and counting!

students helped each year

Look inside!

We started as a

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Professional Development options so there is sure to be something for you!

70%

of students in K–2 using our Keyboarding program saw improvement in their technique.

From the start, the mission was clear—successful students and empowered educators.

Our journey began with providing teachers the tools and professional support needed to successfully nurture young learners. Now, Learning Without Tears products and services have helped more than 30 million students prepare for a lifetime of learning, step by step, letter by letter.

15 minutes

per day is all it takes to make a significant improvement in your students’ handwriting.

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Handwriting Without Tears® Using digital and print resources, students build fluent print and cursive handwriting skills.

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Look Inside: then grew and expanded

to help more children

2........... Handwriting Progam 8........... Transitional Kindergarten 10........... Kindergarten

Get Set for School Our NEW, complete Pre-K curriculum features a multisensory approach to early learning, including appropriate digital activities, to build essential kindergarten readiness skills. ®

12........... Grade 1 14........... Grade 2 16 ........... Grade 3 18........... Grade 4 20........... Grade 5 21 ........... Teacher’s Guides

Students have a

43%

higher WPM average using Keyboarding Without Tears.*

Keyboarding Without Tears® Teach an essential twentyfirst Century skill and build test-taking abilities while supporting cross-curricular activities.

22 ........... Spanish Handwriting 24........... Kits 26........... Paper 28........... Writing Practice 30........... Pre-K Program 48 ........... Spanish Pre-K

30 million

50.......... Hands-On students worldwide have experiened the Learning Without Tears difference

54.......... Keyboarding Program 60........... Technology 66........... Professional Development 68 ........... Pre-K Workshops 70 ........... Handwriting Workshops 72........... The Adventures of Mat Man® (Comic Strip)

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Handwriting Without TearsÂŽ The award-winning Handwriting Without Tears curriculum features multisensory activities for printing and cursive that make handwriting easy to teach and easy to learn.

K–5 students spend nearly 60 percent of classroom time on handwriting-based activities. Our curricula give students endless possibilities.

Our research supports the efficacy of our programs! Explore our proven-effective, researchbased reports to learn the methodology behind our award-winning curricula.

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Interactive Teaching Tool

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K–5 Handwriting Curriculum – What Makes It Work • Developmental teaching order for a scaffolded approach to letter learning and mastery

• Integration of multisensory strategies to bring learning to life

• Large, step-by-step models to provide a clear example

• New digital instruction that combines the teacher’s guide with fun, online ed tech options to teach lessons • Cross-curricular connections to reinforce content being taught in other subjects • Grade-level activity books and journals for additional writing practice • Special support for teaching left-handed students • Child friendly, simple language to reach every student

In English and Spanish

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HANDWRITING

What People Are Saying: “My students LOVE the multisensory tools. I know they are really absorbing the materials when I hear them laughing and playing.”

- Lisa S., Teacher

“Handwriting Without Tears has always been an easy program to effectively implement in my classroom. It’s so complete and engaging and works seamlessly with our core ELA program.”

- Michael C., Teacher

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PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT

Product Spotlight: Magic C Bunny Our exclusive Magic C Bunny plush puppet is an engaging and effective way to help you teach the C stroke to begin capitals C, O, G, and Q and to begin lowercase a, d, g, o, and q (12" tall). While the Magic C Bunny lives in the classroom, it comes to life through the wonder of animation in our Interactive Teaching Tool for Handwriting that reaches learners of every modality.

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HANDWRITING

Before

After

See the difference!

Handwriting Without Tears helps students learn foundation skills like good posture and pencil grip in a fun and engaging way that shows results!

Before

After 6

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HANDWRITING

Before

After

15 minutes

per day is all it takes to make a significant improvement in your students’ handwriting.

Before After

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Transitional kindergarten serves as a bridge between preschool and kindergarten, functioning to provide students with time to develop fundamental skills needed for success in school in a developmentally and ageappropriate setting.

Our developmentally appropriate products support the unique needs of our youngest kindergarteners.

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TRANSITIONAL KINDERGARTEN Kick Start Kindergarten Activity Book

N ame:

The transitional kindergarten activity book provides a bridge from Pre-K to kindergarten with a developmentally appropriate sequence.

Print Child’s Name

Kick Start Kindergarten

goat

hippo

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Introduces students to both capital and lowercase letters

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Builds fine motor skills

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Perfect for second-year Pre-K, junior K, or transitional kindergarten programs

GRADE: TK KSK-18

Handwriting Without Tears®

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Trace

BIG LINE

N ame:

Print Child’s Name

Kick Start Kindergarten

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Copy

Teacher’s Guide

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+ BIG CURVE

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KICK START KINDERGARTEN TEACHER’S GUIDE

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Kick Start Kindergarten

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Guide to Workbook Lessons and Multisensory Activities

by Jan Z. Olsen, OTR

Kick Start Kindergarten Teacher’s Guide

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a a a a a D a a D a a D a D E

Targeted lessons to help bridge Pre-K and kindergarten handwriting skill development.

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GRADE: TK TGKSK-18

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Start on the dot. Trace and copy

d.

up like a

Dd d d d d a

up higher

d

back down bump

d

dog 50

Kick Start Kindergarten

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HANDWRITING

The Screener of Handwriting Proficiency FREE Tool to Assess K–5 Handwriting • Provides formative and summative assessments of handwriting skills • Enables teachers to document the effectiveness of Handwriting Without Tears

A

Writing ournal

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Name:

N ame: Name:

Print Child’s Name

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Structured Practice to Build Core Writing Skills

A baby bat

learns to fly.

I think rabbits

Pandas eat

are good pets.

bamboo.

with Wide Double Lines

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Screener of Handwriting Proficiency

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Home

Screener Packets

Class Reports - Early class 1st Grade

Total Classroom Score

Intermediate Print

1st Grade (Intermediate Print) Beginning (Mar-Jun) Beginning (Mar-Jun)

Resources

Class Reports

How the chart works

100 90 80 70

High Score: 100 Median: 75

60

Low Score: 44

50 40 30 20 10 0

Memory

Expectation

Orientation

Median

Top 20%

Placement

High Score

60%

Bottom 20%

Total

Low Score

Writing Journal A

Building Writers A

New grade-level journals provide one organized tool for strengthening handwriting and independent writing skills.

Building Writers A provides students with grade-appropriate practice in developing early writing skills in narrative, informational, and opinion/argument writing while practicing handwriting.

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Wide double lines

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Space for drawing

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Provides a record of the child’s work

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80 pages

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GRADE: K WJA-18

ANAL FOOD Write about what food you can grow to feed animals.

I grow

ANAL FOOD Write about food animals eat.

seeds

Nuts are

trees

Nuts grow on Nuts are 10

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food

for animals.

corn

squirrels

sunflowers

birds

spinach

rabbits

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KINDERGARTEN B E ST

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Laying the Groundwork for Academic Success

SELLER!

Print Child’s Name

Letters and Numbers for e

bus

walk

stop

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Skills learned in kindergarten set up a domino effect for the rest of the child’s cognitive development.

Letters and Numbers for Me Activity Book

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

GRADE: K LN-18

Copy the words.

k it

Words for e

ca ke

dol l

Check

Copy the sentence.

We a[ a

Sentence for e

li ke

k ites.

Magic c

Start on the dot. Copy d.

Dd a[ •

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up like a

d •

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Check Sentence

Letters and Numbers for Me

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cake

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up higher

d

d

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do

cam el s

wal k ?

wal k

in

d e s e rts .

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Letters and Numbers for Me

Teacher’s Guide

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Print Child’s Name

Letters and Numbers for e

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Guide to Workbook Lessons and Multisensory Activities

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Letters and Numbers for Me Teacher’s Guide

Check Sentence © 2018 Learning Without Tears

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LETTERS AND NUMBERS FOR E TEACHER’S GUIDE

W h e re

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Letters and Numbers for Me

Handwriting Without Tears®

Copy.

d

Check

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is for dinosaur.

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QUESTON & ANSWER

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Multisensory strategies and activity for kindergarten handwriting instructions.

GRADE: K TGLN-18

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HANDWRITING HANDWRITING

Build Handwriting Automatcity The Three Ps: • Posture • Paper Position • Pencil Grip

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Name:

AAZN ANALS Write facts about each animal using the information below.

Writing ournal

Name:

- has a long spiral tusk

- lives in icy Arctic water

Structured Practice to Build Core Writing Skills

- nicknamed unicorn of the sea

Patrick scored.

T he crowd cheered!

Baseball helmets are very hard.

I think soccer

A narwhal

is the best

team sport.

narwhal

- migrates to lay eggs

- is a blue, red, or silver color

with Wide & Regular Double Lines

A salmon

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salmon

- has gills

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Writing Journal B

New grade-level journals provide one organized tool for strengthening handwriting and independent writing skills. Updated to include wide and regular double lines.

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Space for drawing

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Provides additional writing practice

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80 pages

Building Writers B

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- hit baseball

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- ran bases

- scored and won

It was Dave’s turn to bat.

GRADE: 1 BWB-18

GRADE: 1 WJB-18

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Tell the baseball story.

Building Writers B provides students with grade-appropriate practice with narrative writing, informational writing, and opinion/argument writing while building handwriting automaticity.

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Building Writers B: Narrative Writing

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GRADE GRADE11

Spotlight... dive down

on Magic C

around bump

swim up and over

We use the C stroke to begin Start on the dot. Copy b.

B b

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Check

b

b B

Copy the words.

big

is for bicycle.

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b B

Copy capital B.

b B

b

Copy lowercase

b

blue

My Printing Book

bike

capitals C, O, G, and Q and

bus

b.

b

lowercase a, d, g, o, and q. It

b

is of utmost importance we begin

bus

these foundational letters with

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Add

b l e.

Add

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tabl e LNE PRACTCE

Copy the sentence on double lines.

Zack

ca

saw

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Copy the sentence on triple lines.

A va

Copy the sentence on a single line.

Josie

saw

bub

t wo t wo

saw

orientation. Writing from the top

c

scr

down will also help students write

cl

their letters sitting correctly on lines.

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Students will get to know Magic C Bunny from the pages of their

goa t s.

two

the C stroke to help foster correct start, stroke sequence, and letter

ub.

tub

cat s.

bus

student workbook. He appears on all of the Magic C letter practice pages to help children learn

dogs.

what we call the “Magic c habit” (starting from the top center to

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My Printing Book

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make the c based stroke). When

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we make Magic C letters, we are View more sample pages at LWTears.com/Spring2020.

consistent with the wording to help build this Magic c habit. For example, all Magic c lowercase

Handwriting Without Tears®

Name:

logs

truck

Y PRINTING BOOK TEACHER’S GUIDE

y Printing Book tunn el

letters begin with the same step…

Teacher’s Guide

Name:

y Printing Book logs

truck

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“Magic c”.

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First grade students, or those working at that level, practice the correct use of lowercase letters in words and sentences. Includes cross-curricular lessons with practice pages for writing on different styles of lines.

BY JAN Z. OLSEN, OTR

My Printing Book Activity Book

Guide to Workbook Lessons and Multisensory Activities

by Jan Z. Olsen, OTR

My Printing Book Teacher’s Guide Resources and strategies for helping children master handwriting.

Shop Magic C Bunny

GRADE: 1 TGMPB-18

GRADE: 1 MPB-18

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Some students are developmentally ready Start at the top!

Name:

Printing Power down bump

seahorse

sailfish

jellyfish

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Start on the dot. Copy

L

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In Spanish! pp. 22–23

Printing Power Activity Book

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Handwriting Without Tears®

K

Printing Power Teacher’s Guide

Add

ac k .

PRINTING POWER TEACHER’S GUIDE

sack

Name:

Printing Power

jellyfish

gold

gold

will

will

l

Check



kick!

K

K

Check

K

ick .

sick

slide away

Start on the dot. Copy

k

Add

k.

k

a ke .

ma ke

Check

k Add

k

i ke .

bike

b

tr

t

l

tr

br

b

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Guide to Workbook Lessons and Multisensory Activities

Check

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Printing Power

down bump K.

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Start on the dot. Copy .

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Start on the dot. Copy

sailfish

L

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late

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seahorse

L

Check

Copy the words.

Second grade students, or those working at that level, master printing with advanced paragraphs, poems, and language arts activities. Features practice pages for advanced printing on a single line.

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Printing Power Teacher’s Guide Multisensory strategies including multimedia lessons, ESL support, and school-home connections.

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Targeted Writing Practice in Print or Cursive C

Name:

Structured Practice to Build Core Writing Skills

My first

fishing trip

was a success!

Humpback

whales eat tiny prey.

It’s fun to

snorkel and see turtles.

Building Writers C Building Writers C provides students with practice of increasing complexity as they build writing skills in narrative, information, and opinion/argument writing.

GRADE: 2 BWC-18

WHALE & SALON COPARSON Complete the chart. What do both animals have in common? What is different?

 CLASSROO

- mammal

- fish

- warm-blooded

- cold-blooded

- breathes air with lungs

- breathes in water with gills

- has fins and tail

- has fins and tail

- swims in water

- swims in water

Only whale:

How neat is your classroom? Support your opinion with reasons.

very neat - very easy to find things - very easy to clean up

Only salmon:

- very organized - places for everything

a little messy

- easy to find things

- hard to find things

- easy to clean up

- hard to clean up

- organized

- not organized

- places for most things

- too much stuff

I think my classroom is

Both whale and salmon:

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neat enough

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GRADE 2

y to start learning cursive in second grade.

PARARAPH

trailer

tractor

Name:

sleeper landing gear

cab

hitch

Cursive Kickoff

engine

fuel eight wheels

eight wheels

two wheels

This is an 18-wheeler.

The

bridge

Cursive Kickoff Activity Book

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is

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Cursive Kickoff

Cursive Kickoff gives second grade students the option of beginning cursive instruction earlier. After a quick review of print, lessons progress to teaching cursive letters in developmental groups based on formation.

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Make the line as straight as a ruler.

bump

down travel up

back down

y.

y

Copy the words.

Check

y

yell day

Cursive Kickoff

y

Teacher’s Guide

Name:

Cursive Kickoff

New York

river

day

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bridge Check

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turn

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CURSIVE KICKOFF TEACHER’S GUIDE

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aim for corner travel away

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Start on the dot. Copy

river

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tractor has 10 wheels. The trailer

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New York

Guide to Workbook Lessons and Multisensory Activities

by Jan Z. Olsen, OTR

Cursive Kickoff Teacher’s Guide

Strategies and lessons designed to support a natural transition to cursive.

GRADE: 2 TGCK-18

C

Writing Journal C New grade-level journals provide one organized tool for strengthening handwriting and independent writing skills during writing block.

Writing ournal Name:

with Regular Double Lines

•

Regular double lines

•

Space for drawing

•

Provides additional writing practice

•

80 pages

We offer the option to introduce cursive earlier for students who are ready!

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GRADE: 2 WJC-18

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Cursive Writing Instruction – Empowering Students Copy

p is

p

p

Be sure to stay on the pole when you climb back up.

p

Start on the dot. Copy

p

p

back down

p.

p

p

climb back up and over and around

p

cap gap pat path

bump travel away

Check

p

p

p

p

cap gap pat path

Copy the sentences.

Pat had a P Papa, catch P

Copy the words.

pad tap patch chap

p

Copy the words.

bump

travel up

p.

pad tap patch chap

cap. that.

Check Sentence

Check

chap

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Cursive Handwriting pianist

teacher

singer

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with Regular & Narrow Double Lines

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Cursive Handwriting Teacher’s Guide

CURSIVE HANDWRITING TEACHER’S GUIDE

Writing ournal Name:

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Name:

Cursive Handwriting pianist

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singer

Guide to Workbook Lessons and Multisensory Activities

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In Spanish! pp. 22–23

Cursive Handwriting Activity Book

Writing Journal D

Third grade students, or those working at that level, easily transition from printing to cursive with cursive warm-ups. Includes activity pages featuring paragraphs, poems, composition, and crosscurricular lessons.

GRADE: 3 CH-18

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New grade-level journals provide one organized tool for strengthening handwriting and independent writing skills.

• Regular and narrow double lines

Cursive Handwriting Teacher’s Guide Streamlined lesson design to help you teach students cursive writing.

GRADE: 3 TGCH-18

• Provides additional writing practice • 80 pages GRADE: 3 WJD-18

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GRADE 3

Spotlight on...

Vertical Cursive Our simple vertical cursive eliminates unnecessary flourishes and slanting. It’s very similar to print and allows students to develop their own personal style of cursive. The days of elaborate, slanted cursive with curlicues that developed with the use of quills and ink are gone.

ACROSTC POES Use the information below about the accordion to complete the acrostic poem.

bellows

- commonly called squeezebox - produces sounds by squeezing together and pulling apart - has keys similar to a piano - has straps to hold close to chest and arms

keyboard

D

Name:

bass system

- is popular in Brazil and in Mexico

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A C C O R

Structured Practice to Build Core Writing Skills

“ W hen I was a general, I led an army.”

Sacajawea helped

Gandhi was

Clark Expedition.

leader.

the Lewis and

an inspirational

D I

FEALE EXPLORERS Write about the female explorers using the supporting facts.

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Amelia Earhart

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- was the first female to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean 2:45 PM - disappeared somewhere over the Pacific Ocean - received US Distinguished Flying Cross

Building Writers D Building Writers D helps students learn how to add their unique voice to their writing. Featuring practice with narrative, information, and opinion/argument writing.

Download our free Building Writers Sample Pages for independent writing practice in narrative, information, and opinion/argument writing.

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- was an author

Sacajawea

- guided Lewis & Clark expedition - always carried her baby with her and kept group safe - on US dollar coin - explored new territory the US bought from France 60

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Why Cursive?

Cursive will always be relevant! Research has proven that students who use cursive have improved spelling, text construction, and graphic-motor skills that result in better scores on the essay portions of standardized tests than those who print.

Cursive also provides an alternative to students who struggle learning print.

Handwriting Without Tears uses a simple style of vertical cursive to set students up for success.

SHOWN SEQUENCE Sequence is the order of events in a story. Writers show the order of events by using transition words. Write a short story matching the illustrations below. Use transition words to show the order of events.

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E

Name:

Writing ournal Name :

Structured Practice to Build Core Writing Skills

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

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

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

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Writing Journal E

Building Writers E

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Persuade readers that sharks are humans’ friends, not foes. Write three facts to support your opinion and a conclusion.

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the car’s trunk its trunk

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Mike and Greg’s mom their mom

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Can-Do Cursive Activity Book

Students master cursive with crosscurricular content, focusing on difficult connections.

GRADES: 5+ DC-18

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Reach every student with Spanish language resources including teacher kits, welcome letters, and letter formation charts. (p. 22)

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Our kits were designed with teachers in mind and include all the essentials you need to teach effectively by grade. We’ve made handwriting instruction easy to implement so you are positioned for classroom success.

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Big Sheet Draw and Write Paper (8.5" x 17") Perfect for writing and drawing. Includes option to build your own 8.5" x 11" journal and 100 double-sided sheets.

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The Double Line Difference Our double lines control children’s letter size, spacing, and placement.

Our double lines promote legible writing that is easily transferred to other styles of paper.

Double Line Chart Tablet

Double Line Writer

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Designed for use with a classroom easel. Includes set of 2 tablets with 30 sheets per tablet (24" x 32").

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Building Writers With a developmental approach to writing, an intuitive design, and everything for supplemental writing practice all in one activity book, Building Writers supports any writing block or independent writing practice.

Students develop essential writing skills as they write about cross-curricular topics and practice three types of writing styles: narrative, information, and opinion/argument.

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Customizable Writing Templates Narrative Writing

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Focus: Letter G and Number 6

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Build Sentences with Words

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Speak in 3+ word sentences Build spoken words into a sentence

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Theme: Community & Play

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Vocabulary

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Trace correctly, step by step, color and draw creatively

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

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

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

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

connection to number 6?

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

Enrichment: Have children review numbers 1–6.

Vocabulary

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

Unit 3: Week 16 At-A-Glance

six, count, ants, bug, bee

Focus: Letter Gg & Number 6

Children learn to identify Gg and its sound by building sentences with words and write capital letter G through hands-on activities like the Wet-Dry-Try. Identifying, counting, and writing 6 and exploring patterns are covered in math. Science, Social Studies and Oral Language mainly focus on celebrations.

READINESS & WRITING

ORAL LANGUAGE

Day 1 Language & Literacy

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

Materials:

Materials:

Grouping: Whole group, small group

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

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

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

6. It’s capital letter G!

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

the pieces correctly?

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

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

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

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

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Objective: Children learn two action verbs, say the words in sentences and use Build spoken words into a sentence Position an object for use, placement, or them in conversation. release

Grouping: Whole group

Verbs: Invite/Visit

Readiness & Writing

Recognize and name capital letters, position capitals right side up, recognize distinct letter sounds

Cooperate with peers, listen/follow directions Recognize and name capital letters, recognize distinct letter sounds

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Check for Understanding: Observe as children discuss invite visit. Do they Repeat words, and say sentences, demonstrate understanding of word understand the words, and can they say the sentences? meaning

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Recognize and name capital letters, recognize distinct letter sounds

Recognize recognize

similarities and differences in people, perceive themselves as unique individuals, show care and concern for others, child expresses creativity in thinking and communication Describe local, state, and national cultural events, celebrations, and holidays

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Recognize recognize

Sequence, listen/follow directions, attend to a simple task

Enrichment: Discuss. You can invite guests by sendingCreate an invitation.

Have you sent a sensory bin for the letter G using Help children create simple patterns with Suggestions for 3-Year-Olds various green objects. physical props from the classroom like toy, an invitation?

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Position an object for use, placement, or release, notice and attach meaning to visual information

1. Look Say the words with Squawker.

Position an object for use, placement, or Position an object for use, placement, release, use visual cues to guide reaching release, use both sides of the body, Invite means to ask people to come to something like and a party.

Visit meansor for, grasping, moving objects use visual cues to guide reaching for, grasping, and moving objects, reach to go and spend time with family and friends. across midline to get an object from 2. Do Have Squawker go to a corner of the room. Have him invite several children to other side join him. Have himNumbers move and invite the remaining children the other three Demonstrate to active listening Take turns, work with others to solve & Math problems Match 1:1, verbally count 1-10 corners. Have Squawker visit the children.

Identify and describe a pattern by telling Use same hand consistently to hold tool, the repeating unit, duplicate and extend 3. Say We invite friends. We visit friends. hold a tool with proper grip to write, use pattern, match 1:1, verbally count 1-10 helping hand to stabilize object 4. Talk Squawker says: You can invite a friend to your house to play. What else Position an object for use, placement, or Trace correctly, step by step, color and release draw creatively can you invite a friend to do? You can visit family or friends for a special dinner. When doOral you visit family or friends? Oral Language Social Studies Language, Science or Social Studies Take turns, remain engaged, listen/ Recognize, appreciate, and respect Closing: Sing “Letters Together Make Words.”

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Draw a picture to solve a problem

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Read-Aloud Trade Book Library

The Get Set for School Read-Aloud Trade Library, featuring beloved and contemporary titles from award-winning children’s authors, is integrated throughout the Pre-K curriculum. Your teacher’s guide includes a Book Centers and Connections section that provides a host of teaching tips on how to effectively integrate authentic literature in your Pre-K classroom.

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• The Fat Cat Sat on the Mat by Nurit Karlin

• Olivia by Ian Falconer

• Actual Size by Steve Jenkins • Gratitude Soup by Olivia Rosewood

• The Tortoise and the Hare • The Gingerbread Man by Catherine McCafferty • The Recess Queen by Alexis O’Neill • About Pets by Sindy McKay

• Señorita Mariposa – Bilingual Tale by Ben Gundersheimer • The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister • It’s Mine by Leo Lionni

• Chefs and What They Do by Liesbet Slegers • Look! A Starfish! by Tessa Kenan • Oh, The Things You Can Do That Are Good for You: All About Staying Healthy by Tish Rabe • Little Raindrop by Igloo Books • One Duck Stuck: A Mucky Ducky Counting Book

by Phyllis Root • If You Give a Pig a Pancake by Laura Numeroff • The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle

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Our Get Set for School Spanish Read-Aloud Trade Library provides a rich collection of authentic Spanish literature to ensure all learners are supported equally, equitably, and effectively.

• Chivos Chivones by Olalla Gonzales

• Bilingual Tales: Los tres cerditos/The Three Little Pigs

• La princesa, la vaca y el jardinero by Marcus Sauermann

• La semillita by Eric Carle

• Ayudantes de mi comunidad by Bobbie Kalman

• El libro de oro de las fábulas

• Espaguetis en un panecillo de perro caliente: Tener el valor de ser quien eres by Maria Dismondy

• ¡Esperar no es fácil! by Mo Willems

• ¡Pío Peep!: Traditional Spanish Nursery Rhymes by Alma Flor Ada, F. Isabel Campoy, and Alice Schertle • Ricitos de oro y los tres osos by Valeri Gorbachev • Lluvia by Carol Thompson • Si le haces una fiesta a una cerdita by Laura Numeroff • Dragons Do Not Share!/¡Los dragones no comparten!

by D. J. Panec, translated by Andy Elkerton • El desayuno del principe by Joanne Oppenheim • Olivia by Ian Falconer • Pete el gato and His Four Groovy Buttons by Eric Litwin • The Little Red Hen: La Gallinita Roja – Bilingual English and Spanish

• ¿Ahora Qué Va A Pasar? By Nuria Diaz Reguera • The Cat in the Hat/El Gato Ensombrerado by Dr. Seuss • Mis cinco sentidos by Aliki • María tenía una llamita by Angela Dominguez • Jorge El Curioso Va A Una Fiesta De Disfraces

by H. A. Rey • About Pets – Las mascotas by Sindy McKay • ¡Mira, una estrella de mar! by Tessa Kenan • La pata pita by Hilda Perera and Mana Fraga • Había una vez una gota de lluvia by Judith Anderson • Cuidar el planeta tierra • ¿Por qué debo reciclar? by Jen Green

• Llaman a la Puerta by Pat Hutchins

• El Gran Viaje De Guisante by D. Call

• The Gingerbread Man: El Hombre de Pan de Jengibre – Bilingual English and Spanish by Catherine McCafferty

• Avión by Alex Summers

• La Oruga muy Hambrienta by Eric Carle

• Tamano Real by Steve Jenkins

• El Tiempo – Weather by Claire Beaton • Señorita Mariposa by Ben Gundersheimer and Marcos Almada Rivero

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PRE-K Readiness & Writing Pre-K Teacher’s Guide Lessons address general readiness, alphabet knowledge, letter and number recognition, capital and lowercase letter formation, counting, drawing, shapes, and colors.

Pre-K Teacher’s Guide

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Big Line down. Jump to the .

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• Little Chalk Bits • Little Sponge Cubes • Little cups of water • Paper towels

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

Dry F with crumbled towel. Say the words.

Try F with chalk. Say the words.

Grouping 1–5 children Suppor t/ELL You say the words for each step slowly. Children join in when they can.

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

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

Color and Draw

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

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

Trace and Write F

Color and Draw

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

Color each animal

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

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

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

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8. Begin with S, up to the top.

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

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Find two words: FROG and FISH. Compare a frog’s body to

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a fish’s body. Act out hopping and swimming.

of tracing F.

Start in the starting corner Big Line down, Jump to  Little Line across the top Little Line across the middle

WET: Wet F with sponge, Wet F with wet finger, Say the words

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Use objects to show the concept of 2, 4, 6, 8.

Give the animals shoes! This helps students understand

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one to one correspondence.

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

Writing • Hold a crayon with proper grip to write • Use helping hand to stabilize objects and papers • Trace capital letters

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

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

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

Foundation Skills • Sequencing • Listen to oral directions to attend to a simple task

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Readiness & Writing Kits

Stock up on everything you need for readiness and writing success. Kit includes a choice of either 20 My First School Book or My First Book Set, 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 RWMF-KIT RWBSET-KIT

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The Pre-K nteractive Teaching Tool is a new 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 nteractive 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 Readiness & Writing Pre-K Teacher’s Guide.

GRADE: Pre-K PREKTT-GSS PREKTT-RW

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Wet-Dry-Try App*

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

Sound Around Letters App* Children identify, match, and say capital and lowercase letters, their sounds, and words beginning with the target letter.

Touch & Flip Numbers App*

Children identify, match, count, say, trace, and write numbers 1–20 with interactive games and familiar Get Set for School activities.

*Not sold separately

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PRE-K NEW! My First School Book Activity Book

Pre-K children learn joyfully with multisensory readiness and social-emotional activities. Color, number, shape, and capital letter lessons help develop grip and crucial readiness and writing skills.

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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-20

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I Know My Numbers Activity Booklet

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

GRADE: Pre-K CKMN (set of 10)

$65.95

IKMN (individual set) $6.95

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Check out our how-to videos!

Magic C Bunny Puppet

From finger plays to grip activities and product implementation tips, you’ll find dozens of lively videos to help you maximize our curriculum!

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

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Includes 36 eye-catching letter and number cards that promote correct formations. (8.5" x 11") GRADES: Pre-K WCCPK

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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.

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FLIP Crayons®

Promote proper grip and fine motor skills by flipping our unique FLIP Crayons. 10 colors are included—2 colors and 2 points per crayon.

GRADES: Pre-K–K

FC (Tub of 206 Crayons)

FGS20 (Gift Set of 20 Mini Packs)

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Learning with Music Music, dance, and finger plays reach children through the way they learn best—through active, engaging, and real-life experiences.

Music boosts memory, fosters body awareness, and builds motor skills in young children. All your favorite Learning Without Tears albums are available on iTunes!

Sing, Sound & Count With Me Music Album

Get Set for School Sing Along Music Album

Rock, Rap, Tap & Learn Music Album

GRADE: Pre-K COUNT

GRADE: Pre-K SING

GRADES: K–2 ROCK

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

Children sing, tap, and dance along to 25 songs to develop important social, cognitive, and physical skills.

Children develop self-esteem and body awareness as they rock along to 25 songs.

Original, lively songs by Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer, back-to-back Grammy® Award winners for Best Children’s Album.

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

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

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

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

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

3. Say We invite friends. We visit friends.

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

Closing: Sing “Letters Together Make Words.”

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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?

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Children learn about books through drawing, storytelling, and personalizing their own story in this 20-page book.

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Children learn to recognize letters and numbers, match letter sounds, count, 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. The 1-2-3 Touch & Flip Cards include numbers 0–20 (21 animal cards and 21 counter cards). 4" x 6.25".

GRADE: Pre-K ABCTFC 123TFC-20

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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.

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.

Mix & Make Shapes™

GRADE: Pre-K

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

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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.

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Roll–A–Dough Letters®

Stamp & See Screen®

GRADE: Pre-K RAD

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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.

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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

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) GRADES: Pre-K–K WP

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

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Get Set for School in Spanish enables all children to be kindergarten ready in skills and content knowledge by providing every lesson, activity, and student activity book in Spanish.

Research* Indicates: Spanish-speaking preschoolers experience significant improvements in their English skills when they have a good grasp of Spanish letters and numbers and an early education

program that connect children’s word and math skills in Spanish to those in English can increase school readiness for Spanishspeaking children. *University of Missouri, 2016

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

Wet-Dry-Try on the Slate Chalkboard •

Develops proper grip using Little Chalk Bits and Little Sponge Cubes

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Provides tactile feedback to engage memory and cognitive functions

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Gives clear physical and visual cues (frame and smiley face) that prevent reversals

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Practice formations based on our proven methodology

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Receive audio cues and feedback from a personal handwriting coach

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View a snapshot of each child’s progress in the app

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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–2 SLT

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. (10" x 17") GRADES: Pre-K–4 BB

You’ll Also Need: Little Chalk Bits

Develop pincer grip and make writing easy for little hands. Includes 200 (1") soft chalk pieces.

GRADES: Pre-K–4+ LCB

Classroom Edition

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

GRADES: Pre-K–2 CLNAPP

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

Check out our blog article for more details!

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These sponges fit little hands when doing Wet-Dry-Try on the Slate Chalkboard or Blackboard with Double Lines. Includes 100 (½") square cubes per bag.

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In Spanish! pp. 22–23

NEW! 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.

(11" x 15") GRADES: Pre-K MLBS-20

Multimodality Instruction Engages & Excites Young Learners

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Print Letter & Number Poster

The eye-catching illustrations from the Color Print & Number Wall Cards are available in 34" x 24" poster format to hang in your classroom for an up close letter/ number model.

Color Name Plates

Perfect for desks, lockers, or cubbies, these name plates are terrific visual aids to help teach children how to write their names.

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Eye-catching letter and number cards promote correct formations. Includes 36 color letter and number cards.

Cards are 8.5" x 11".

Black and white cards promote correct cursive letter formations. Includes 19 letter and number cards, each 11" x 8.5".

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".

GRADES: K–2 PAS (Print) GRADES: 2–4+ CAS (Cursive)

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Meet Mat Man®

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

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

Explore Mat Man World

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

Read our infographic to find out how Mat Man can make your classroom more interactive!

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Build Mat Man® Kit

Get everything you need to build Mat Man in one handy kit.

GRADES: Pre-K–K Code: BMM

In Spanish! pp. 22–23

Mat Man Book Set Children learn readiness and language arts skills with this four-book boxed set, including Mat Man Shapes, Mat Man Hats, Mat Man On the Go, and Mat Man Opposites. Includes free Mat Man poster.

GRADES: Pre-K–K MMBS

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Keyboarding Without Tears® Results-Driven Improvement in Typing Technique, Speed, & Accuracy Keyboarding Without Tears is a unique, patented approach to help all students in grades K–5 master the essential twenty-first Century skill of keyboarding.

• Fun, game-based curriculum • Prepares students for computerbased testing • Builds typing fluency and speed • Includes advanced reporting for teachers and administrators • Guaranteed data privacy Web-based technology works with Clever, Google Single Sign-On (SSO), ClassLink OneClick/OneRoster, PCs/Macs, Chromebooks, iPads, and tablets.

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NEW! Proven-Effective

Students using Keyboarding Without Tears had a 43 percent higher average Words Per Minute (WPM) score than students not using the program.

Keyboarding Without Tears integrates typing exercises, cross-curricular themes, and online test preparation. It also includes digital citizenship lessons. In just 5–10 minutes per day or 30 minutes per week students learn this essential life skill.

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Teacher Custom Creation

Students practice typing what they hear with dictation activities!

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

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

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Explicit Instruction Students today are exposed to technology nearly from birth. While they may intuitively be able to tap and swipe, keyboarding skills must be explicitly taught.

Prepare Your Students for Twenty-First Century Careers

Just as handwriting is a foundation skill for literacy, keyboarding is a foundation skill for coding—the new digital literacy! Keyboarding instruction teaches students how to type using proper technique, efficiently use the keyboard and mouse, and safely navigate the internet.

A recent efficacy study highlighted that students in K–2 using Keyboarding Without Tears saw 70 percent improvement on keyboarding technique.

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+Live Insights...

Your Classroom & License Management Dashboard for Keyboarding Without Tears • Set up students and manage classrooms • Monitor progress easily and effectively • Access FREE gradelevel teacher’s guides • Add students • Assign and unassign student licenses • Add a co-educator • Enable features to customize the class or student experience

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KINDERGARTEN Keys for Me •

Develops fine motor skills

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GRADE 1 My Keying Board •

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Develops finger-key association

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Includes practice for typing letters and words

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GRADE 2 Key Power •

Builds typing muscle memory

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Teaches the entire keyboard

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Includes practice for common letters, words, and sentences

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GRADE 3 Keyboarding •

Teaches number and action keys

GRADE 4 Keyboarding Success •

Reinforces typing speed and fluency

GRADE 5 Can-Do Keyboarding •

Supports mastery of typing accuracy and speed

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Shows how to format and type paragraphs

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Strengthens muscle memory

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Helps students handle standards and testing in higher grades

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Includes practice for typing paragraphs about interesting subjects

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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.

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“The built-in assessments in Keyboarding Without Tears make it so simple to remember to evaluate my students and track progress” -Gemma, Teacher, Texas

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TECHNOLOGY

Learning Without Tears has the tools needed for today’s digital classroom instruction.

Whether it’s handwriting or keyboarding, our solutions are the best at preparing students to become confident communicators, digitally. We start by supporting teachers with robust FREE resources.

Screener of Handwriting Proficiency

A free and easy-to-administer whole-class assessment tool that provides insightful data through formative and summative assessments on students’ handwriting skills and areas in need of remediation.

A+ Worksheet Maker Lite

A free and easy-to-use classroom resource for creating effective worksheets that enables educators to integrate the unique Handwriting Without Tears font and double lines into other classroom activities.

• Worksheets for grades K–4 in both print and cursive with grade-appropriate lines and spacing • Worksheets for additional handwriting practice in other subjects, such as expository writing, spelling, and vocabulary • Worksheets available in Spanish LWTears.com/Spring2020

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The Pre-K nteractive Teaching Tool The Pre-K nteractive Teaching Tool is a new digital teaching platform that brings the Get Set for School lessons to life with engaging, developmentally appropriate technology.

• Customize lessons and pacing to match students’ needs • Simply demonstrate letter and number formations with touch sensitive formation • Help activities leap off the page with engaging animations and videos • Get students moving and grooving with music and videos • Support instruction with cross-curricular lesson extensions

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The Handwriting nteractive Teaching Tool Digital handwriting instruction: easy for teachers, fun for kids!

The Handwriting nteractive Teaching Tool is an easy-to-use digital instruction tool that enhances our activity books and supports your teaching.

• Supports teaching handwriting in a digital world • Integrates easily into core English language instruction • Captivates young learners with engaging activities

Sign up for a free trial of The Handwriting nteractive Teaching Tool to experience the next level of handwriting instruction at LWTears.com/Spring2020.

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Manage your handwriting lesson plans while reducing prep time with ready-to-teach lessons.

The Handwriting nteractive Teaching Tool is flexible, so you can adjust the ready-made presentations to fit your unique classroom needs.

What’s Included: • Compatible with any interactive whiteboard or projector • Includes digital activity book and teacher’s guide • Multimedia options for teaching for each lesson: digital letter and number formations, award-winning animations, music, and instructional videos • Access to fun, cross-curriucular connections, supplemental lessons, and downloads • Designed for no-prep classroom instruction • User-friendly platform makes teaching easy • Engages different learning styles in the classroom

Features animated videos to engage all learners.

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Encourage Children’s Learning at Home Whether you’ve already closed for the school year, or are considering a new path forward, the following resources can help you continue children’s handwriting, keyboarding, and Pre-K development from a distance.

You can now access the Pre-K nteractive Teaching Tool and/or The Handwriting nteractive Teaching Tool for 90 days for free.

Pre-K nteractive Teaching Tool

Get Set for School for Pre-K comes to life with an abundance of exciting and engaging multimedia options. With this digital platform you can access activity books, lessons, demonstrations of letter and number formations, music, videos, stories, and more. Platform flexibility allows you to use an interactive white board, a laptop or a tablet.

Handwriting nteractive Teaching Tool

Bring student workbooks to life with the Handwriting Interactive Teaching Tool.

This no-prep, comprehensive approach to teaching includes digital letter formations, teaching videos, and fun animations your children will love.

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FREE RESOURCES & SUPPORT All of our distance learning resources are in one easy-to-navigate place: LWTears.com/distance20

Use Keyboarding Without Tears for free.

Keyboarding Without Tears

We’re offering Keyboarding Without Tears (grades K—5), our research-proven keyboarding program, to you and your students for free through July 31, 2020.

Families can gain free access by contacting our customer service using the link below.

For student privacy protection, all requests will be processed within 48–72 hours.

Getting Started and How-To videos are also available.

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And More!

Use LWTears.com/distance20 for the most up-to-date information and resources.

This includes letters for teachers to send to families, getting started user guides, our A+ Worksheet Maker Lite, and our favorite downloads and activities!

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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Tailored PD Learning Without Tears Workshops Interactive – Our workshops are built around hands-on interaction with the real classroom materials we provide free to every participant.

Delivered by someone who understands your classroom and practice – Our workshops are presented by fellow classroom teachers and occupational therapists who are not only topic experts, but have real world experience implementing in today’s classroom.

Sustained over time – Our workshops come with a free, one-year subscription to our Virtual PD Hub, providing you with ongoing, practical classroom support beyond the workshop.

Collaborative – Our workshops provide you with a unique opportunity to network with other teachers and OTs facing the same classroom challenges as you.

NEW! Virtual Workshops

We’re Here When You’re Ready

We are very pleased to launch our New Virtual Workshops and are now offering our complete Pre-K–5 workshops online to provide you with continuing education hours and product training right in your home.

Choose the time that works for you.

Our virtual workshops are offered at multiple convenient times throughout the day and week. Plus, they’re live, offering interactive learning.

All attendees receive a FREE one-year membership to our new online PD Hub with on-demand training and professional learning right at your fingertips all year. To make sure you get the most from this multisensory workshop, free materials will be sent to your location prior to the workshop so you can have a hands-on experience while virtually training.

Once the live workshops are completed in their entirety, you will receive AOTA approved certification hours.

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Find the right PD option for you!

In-Person Workshops Register and get hands-on training you can implement the next day.

On-Site Workshops Bring professional development to your school or center.

NEW! Virtual PD Hub The training, skills, and knowledge you need to successfully implement Pre-K, K–5 handwriting, and K–5 keyboarding instruction are now available at your fingertips with our NEW Virtual PD Hub! Virtual PD Hub + Coaching Add coaching with our experts to your Virtual PD Hub membership!

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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT A Multisensory Approach to Pre-Kindergarten This active, in-person workshop covers implementation best practices on our new Get Set for School complete Pre-K curriculum. During this full-day, center-based workshop, you will experience how to teach play-based lessons that will build students’ readiness, prewriting, social-emotional, sensory motor, numbers, math, science, social studies, language, and literacy skills through a variety of child friendly manipulatives, music, movement, and rhymes, as well as digital technology.

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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT K–5 Handwriting Full Day | 6.5 Contact Hours Gain the skills and knowledge to easily teach and remediate printing and cursive in classroom and 1:1 settings with students of all learning styles.

At the end of this full-day, in-person workshop, you will be able to: •

Implement, teach, and remediate handwriting using effective, step-by-step lesson plans that incorporate active teaching, multisensory strategies, and differentiated instruction

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Use the Handwriting Without Tears® unique approach, stages of learning, and our two handwriting assessments (Screener of Handwriting Proficiency and The Print Tool®)

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Navigate the Handwriting Without Tears digital teaching technology and hands-on resources to facilitate engaging lessons

Includes a one-year membership to the NEW Virtual PD Hub!

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This workshop is required to complete your Level 1 Certification!

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

At the end of the workshop, you will be able to: •

Administer and score the Pre-K Assessments and the Screener of Handwriting Proficiency

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Understand different handwriting curricula, discover new handwriting resources, and use The Print Tool with various populations

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The Print Tool® Evaluation & Remediation Package

The Print Tool is a one-on-one assessment used to evaluate and remediate capitals, lowercase letters, and numbers. Includes: •

The Print Tool guide book

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Student sample worksheets, evaluation scoresheets, and handwriting remediation plan forms (10 each)

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Here’s What Our Customers Are Saying...

As a Teacher...

I had lots of different learners, with lots of different styles of learning. It’s very easy to scaffold.

On Workshops...

I was trained by Jan herself. We, as a staff, are hooked!

On Vertical Cursive...

I can tell you first hand that it is much easier for children to learn cursive without having to worry about the slants and the loops.

On Print to Cursive Transition...

They found it very consistent and easy to transition from printing to cursive with Handwriting Without Tears.

On Teacher’s Guides...

The lesson plans give you a lot of ideas and opportunities to enrich or support.

On the Blackboard with Double Lines...

The feedback from the chalk to the blackboard helps code their little brains when we are working on a new skill. The kids love the Blackboard with Double Lines and it’s my favorite too.

On The Handwriting nteractive Teaching Tool...

It really catches the kids’ attention and keeps them engaged. I think that every classroom in America should have The Handwriting nteractive Teaching Tool.

On Differentiated Instruction...

At the end of the day, we’re not all the same, we don’t work the same. You want to be able to meet kids where they are. The ability to have different materials in the classroom that address specific skills and needs of all kids is a wonderful feature of the curriculum.

The Adventures of Mat Man® Let’s visit the Grand Canyon!

The Reverser wrote down a place where we can camp for free, but it’s not showing up on my GPS!

Luckily, Mat Man knows from using his Magnetic Lowercase & Blackboard Set that lowercase ‘d’ is the reverse of lowercase ‘b’ and figured out The Reverser’s mistake 72

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On Tag Bags...

They are so appealing and the diversity of skills you can teach is truly amazing.

On the Connection to Early Writing and Literacy...

You can’t underestimate the importance of letter recognition and the importance of learning to write.

All of those pieces, if that foundation is not there, makes everything else twice as difficult to teach. Get Set for School is really special because it emphasizes those pieces and critical fine motor pieces, such as coloring.

On Fine Motor Instruction...

There is a connection between early fine motor and letter recognition that sets the tone for an incredibly successful academic career. The fine motor aspect of Pre-K and early learning impacts cognitive abilities, makes learning easier, and builds automaticity.

Because of this, children don’t have to think as hard about simple tasks. Academically that makes a complete difference.

On the Slate, the Blackboard, and the Magnetic Lowercase & Blackboard Set...

The Slate, the Blackboard, and the Magnetic Lowercase Blackboard Set are the most genius and effective tools. The retention and the memory they get from (these tools) is outstanding. It never felt like learning for the kids. Kids really just thought they were having fun.

On Manipulatives...

Even if the children don’t know what they are, they are so attractive and engaging that they automatically want them. They can’t resist. Their eyes light up. They don’t know it’s an educational tool. They are excited to touch it and experience it.

On Keyboarding Without Tears...

It’s a wonderful application to work with. The students are so energized by the program because it’s game-based, but also includes familiar topics and content that resonates with them. This is a very fun way for them to learn a life skill.

On Enrichment Activities..

These are wonderful opportunities to extend the learning in areas like independent writing.

On Hear It, Type It...

This is powerful because it starts to build those note-taking skills students will need later in life.

It’s never too early.

On Student Success…

My students’ speed and accuracy have increased tremendously. They are very proud to show their score after they take one of the Speed and Accuracy Assessments.