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It's a fact: good handwriting promotes strong literacy skills and academic success in other subjects. On the other hand, children who struggle with handwriting may avoid writing…leading to arrested development.

The Handwriting Without Tears curriculum draws from years of research to provide developmentally appropriate, multisensory tools and strategies for your classroom. See why it works:

• HWT teaching orders move progressively from writing readiness in pre-k, to printing in grades k-2, and cursive in grades 3-5+. The scope and sequence of lessons is based on research about how children learn best.
• The HWT program follows research that states children learn best by actively doing, and by using all of their senses.
• HWT takes a unique physical approach to instruction that addresses posture, grip, and paper positioning.

Check out our Research Review and see why the HWT curriculum prepares all children for school—in all subjects.

Learn more about a recent pilot study on how Mat Man™ activities improve student learning and academic performance.

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