Our Successes
The Handwriting Without Tears® program (HWT) is an award-winning handwriting curriculum that has helped millions of children develop school readiness skills and succeed in handwriting. We are:
- Widely recognized by educators for superior teaching strategies and materials
- Adopted by thousands of schools and school districts throughout the U.S. and Canada
- Accessible to, recommended by, and easy for parents to use
- The #1 choice of occupational therapists and educators who are asked to facilitate handwriting remediation
Unique Curriculum
Children and teachers succeed with the Handwriting Without Tears program. Here’s why:
- Letter and Number style is developmentally appropriate and easy to read.
- Unique workbook features make handwriting easy to teach and learn.
- Multisensory teaching strategies appeal to all learning styles.
- Student lessons take only 15 minutes a day.
HWT enables children to write with ease and confidence, express their thoughts on paper, and finish their work.
The result? Better test scores and improved academic performance!
Children, Educators, and Administrators Succeed with HWT
- Administrators are pleased because everyone else is pleased—parents, teachers, and children. Also, HWT is cost-effective at half the price of other major publishers’ workbooks. It reduces overall remediation costs and improves classroom efficiency.
- Teachers are happy because they need very little time for classroom preparation, can implement lesson plans easily, and get outstanding results quickly.
- Therapists are excited because they have a fun and easy-to-use curriculum for struggling children, and they can also serve as a resource when it's time to integrate the curriculum in regular education classrooms.
- Parents love HWT because their children do well in handwriting and bring home papers that go up on the refrigerator. Homeschooling parents find the lesson plans in the teachers' guides easy for parents to understand and use at home.
- Students are proud of their handwriting success: writing legibly and neatly is an easy, early school victory!
Here's what HWT users have to say
“My teachers are loving Handwriting Without Tears. Today, a kindergarten teacher told me that when her students come to school, they beg to do penmanship!”
— Stephanie Youngerman, Educational Services Supervisor – Language Arts
“Using Handwriting Without Tears®, our pre-kindergarten and kindergarten children meet higher standards for letter recognition, correct letter formation and directionality.”
— Judy Walker, Principal, Central Elementary School, Stephenville, TX