READINESS & WRITING

The Readiness & Writing program is one component of the Get Set For School curriculum and has been carefully designed to prepare children for our Handwriting Without Tears curriculum. Students build pre-writing and emergent writing skills developmentally through engaging, hands-on, playbased activities.

Getting Started

Participants will receive a complete overview of the Readiness & Writing program and learn to access and use their teaching resources and classroom materials. Participants will also engage in hands-on learning, collaborative discussion, action planning, and reflection.

Learning Outcomes:

• Plan your instruction based on developmental stages for readiness that will foster important sensory motor and social-emotional skills

• Identify playful ways to teach fine motor skills and grip using music and tools for little hands

• Discover our step-by-step approach to effectively teach coloring skills

• Implement purposeful, hands-on, multisensory manipulatives, music, and digital learning to teach size, shape, position in space, and alphabet knowledge to support emergent writing skill development

• Implement purposefully designed materials to help children progress from coloring, to tracing letters and numbers, to writing their names

Deeper Dive

This session is recommended 3–12 months after the Getting Started session, and will include a review on key curricular concepts, reflection on recent program use, a focus on selected key topics, and an opportunity for questions.

Select topics to customize a Professional Learning session based on your teachers' needs:

• Focused review of the Pre-K Interactive Teaching Tool (PreKITT)

• Assessment

• Alphabet knowledge

• Classroom scenarios

• Differentiated instruction for English language learners (ELL) students and students with special needs

• Paper-based activities

• Multisensory activities:

• Readiness to write

• Learning capital letters, numbers, and lowercase letters

• Language and literacy

• Numbers and math

• Oral language

• Science and social studies

Good handwriting skills develop as a result of good handwriting instruction. Handwriting Without Tears provides students with the explicit, direct instruction and purposeful practice they need to master handwriting and develop automaticity. Multisensory activities and manipulatives appeal to all learning styles and provide a hands-on approach to handwriting.

Getting Started

Participants will receive a complete overview of the Print (K–2), and/or Cursive (2–5) program(s) and learn to access and use their teaching resources and classroom materials. Participants will engage in hands-on learning, collaborative discussion, action planning, and reflection.

Learning Outcomes:

Print (K–2):

• Describe the importance of the handwriting process as a means to teach or remediate learning letters, words, and sentences

• Implement purposeful, hands-on, multisensory manipulatives, music, and digital learning resources to teach grip, position concepts, alphabet knowledge, and letter formation

• Examine how double lines lead to student writing success and apply strategies to help students write on any type of lined paper

• Identify at least two additional to support handwriting instruction and intervention, including the Screener of Handwriting Proficiency

Cursive (2–5):

• Plan, implement and teach cursive handwriting using multisensory methods and the student edition

• Support instruction using technology and digital resources

• Learn ways to monitor progress and differentiate instruction

• Promote integration of cursive writing beyond the student edition LWTears.com/HWT

Deeper Dive

This session is recommended 3–12 months after the Getting Started session, and will include a review on key curricular concepts, reflection on recent program use, a focus on selected key topics, and an opportunity for questions.

Select topics to customize a Professional Learning session based on your teachers' needs:

• Multisensory activities for learning one or more of the following: o Developing readiness to write o Learning capital letters and numbers o Learning lowercase letters o Learning cursive letters and connections o Strategies to teach and remediate letter formation, spacing, sizing, and line use

• Paper-based activities beyond the workbook

• Assessment

• Differentiated instruction for ELL students and students with special needs

• Focused review of Interactive Digital Teaching Tool

• Classroom scenarios and case studies

• Building Writers

Keyboarding Without Tears prepares students for more than just typing. They learn the rules of the online world, developing flexible skills and confidence to help them succeed. This online, game-based curriculum for grade K–5 helps students learn typing, general computer readiness, and online test prep. Students can also access an award-winning digital citizenship curriculum from Common Sense Education.

Getting Started

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A curriculum and implementation overview will equip your educators and co-educators with the tools they need to successfully get students started in the KWT program. Educators will preview the 36-week scope and sequence across the K–5 grade levels, including the first six weeks of foundational skill-building activities, to experience the engaging, cross-curricular themes and activities that students find familiar and fun. We provide an overview of the features available in the educator dashboard for effective management of classes and students, including the optional digital citizenship and tech readiness components. Lastly, participants will be introduced to the assessment options and the reporting data.

Learning Outcomes:

• Apply best practices using developmentally appropriate keyboarding instruction

• Implement Keyboarding Without Tears with fidelity in your learning environment

• Leverage the features and settings in +Live Insights

Deeper Dive

This session is recommended 3–12 months after the Getting Started session, and will include a review on key curricular concepts, reflection on recent program use, a focus on selected key topics, and an opportunity for questions.

Take your keyboarding instruction to the next level with these topics:

• Customize instruction with pacing options and enrichment opportunities

• Implementation of Digital Citizenship, Tech Readiness, and Reinforcement lessons

• Assessment Accelerator for online testing skill practice

15% off* workshop registration with code PL2023

Roxanne did an amazing job discussing and modeling different techniques that we can use in our classroom.

Valerie explained this program very well.

I loved the videos of teachers putting Handwriting Without Tears into practice. Thank you!

*This discount is valid from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2023. This offer cannot be combined with other offers, may only be used once per customer, applies to online orders, and is not valid on previous purchases.

Federal funding options are available!

Learning Without Tears Professional Services are eligible for federal funding, including Title II and ESSER III.

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Christina kept us engaged through asking us questions and encouraging us to post in the chat.

I enjoyed learning tips from other educators in the break-out sessions.

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