Welcome to Capital Start! We’re delighted you’ve joined the Handwriting Without Tears community and want to ensure you get the most from your new handwriting curriculum. Capital Start is your new user’s guide to exclusive resources, best practices, and strategies from top handwriting experts. You’ll get the help you need—every step of the way. Click on the tabs above to get advice and resources by grade level.

Stay tuned for Volume 2: Teaching Strategies…Explore time-saving teaching tools that are sure to spark fun and excitement. Learn about the HWT developmental order and discover lesson-mapping strategies. See how you can incorporate multisensory techniques to motivate all students, from beginning through more advanced lessons, including cursive.

Getting the Most from Your Handwriting Teacher’s Guide

By Susan Little, OTR/L

Why should you spend time reading your handwriting teacher’s guide? Because it helps you avoid and overcome many classroom challenges—including time spent on remediation. Your students can’t learn handwriting on their own from workbooks or handouts. They need active teaching. You can make it easy for them to learn and do well in all their classes. Your Handwriting Without Tears® teacher’s guide shows you how. Regardless of your teaching experience, you’ll benefit from the flexible lesson plans, time saving tips, and teaching guidelines and strategies.

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Q. Do we have to do the exercises in your workbooks in order? What if that order doesn’t work with our curriculum?

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Q. Do I have to teach handwriting only on double lines? What if we have to use other styles of lined paper for other coursework?

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