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Handwriting in Today's Classrooms
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Teacher's Guides and Workbooks – A Look Inside
Our new workbooks and teacher’s guides make it even easier to teach handwriting and integrate it into your language arts instruction. |
Flip Crayon Activities
Tripod Grip with FLIP Crayons®
Diane teaches finger names and functions. This playful approach helps young children develop grasp. Purchase FLIP Crayons® from our online store.
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Using FLIP Crayons®
Children flip for FLIP Crayons®, the double-sided crayons for little hands that promote proper grip. Flipping the crayons to change colors is a fun and developmentally appropriate way for young learners to develop fine motor skills. Purchase FLIP Crayons® from our online store.
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Hands-on Materials
Building Capital Letters on Mat
This interactive letter building activity with the Mat and Wood Pieces keeps children focused as they respond to spoken instruction. Consistent terminology and taking turns reinforce learning and provide hands-on feedback. Purchase the Wood Pieces from our online store.
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Show Me Magnetic Pieces
Show Me Magnetic Pieces is a demonstration tool that features a magnetic blue mat, magnetic lines and magnetic curves that allows teachers to model letter formations on a vertical surface for whole kindergarten class instruction. Students follow along with their Blue Mats and wood pieces. Purchase the Show Me Magnetic Pieces from our online store.
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Mat Man for K
Building and Drawing Mat Man
Children bring the beloved Mat Man character to life with the Mat and Wood Pieces. This interactive activity helps young learners develop body awareness, drawing skills, socialization, and number awareness. Mat Man makes readiness skills fun and easy for all. |
Readiness & Writing
Building Capitals with Capital Letter Cards
Children learn consistent terminology as they build letters on capital letter cards. This activity is a great precursor to building on the Mat. Children see the letter formations as the teacher guides them in group or in individual instruction. Purchase the Capital Letter Cards for Wood Pieces from our online store.
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Magic C Bunny Helps Teach Handwriting for K-3
Magic C Cursive Lesson
The Handwriting Without Tears student workbooks make it easy to learn cursive. Here, a Magic C exercise is used to teach step-by-step letter formation. Purchase the Cursive Handwriting third grade workbook from our online store.
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Magic C Letter Activities
Students learn to form "a", "d", and "g" playing the Magic C game on the Blackboard with Double lines. This is a fun way to practice letter formation skills. Purchase the Blackboard with Double Lines from our online store.
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Music and Movement
Frog Jump Letters Song: Fun intro to big lines
Here, the class learns that F E D P B R N and M are all Frog Jump Capitals. They stand up and finger trace the Frog Jump Capitals in the air in time with the song. This multisensory activity is a great way to incorporate music and movement to make letters memorable. Hear more sample tracks and purchase the Rock, Rap, Tap & Learn CD from our online store.
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Sliding Down to the End of the Alphabet Song: Start with V, slide all the way to Z
Sliding Down to the End of the Alphabet is an upbeat rock and roll song that teaches the more difficult diagonals and the end of the alphabet. Children start with V and slide all the way down to Z. This rollicking tune ensures that children always remember the end of the alphabet. Since the teacher is facing the students, she must demonstrate the letters backwards so that the students model them correctly. Hear more sample tracks and purchase the Rock, Rap, Tap & Learn CD from our online store.
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Wet Dry Try Activities
Cursive Name on the Blackboard
Children have fun writing their names in cursive doing Wet-Dry-Try on the Blackboard with Double Lines. This multisensory hands-on activity is an easy way to teach motor skills, mature grasp, letter formations and connections. Purchase the Blackboard with Double Lines from our online store.
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Letter K on the Slate Chalkboard
Using the Slate chalkboard, Jan shows Charlie how to form a K with Wet-Dry-Try. The accompanying letter story helps Charlie remember each step. Purchase the Slate Chalkboard from our online store.
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Letter O on the Slate Chalkboard
Its a perfect O on the slate. The Wet-Dry-Try exercise makes teaching and learning letter formation fun and memorable. Purchase the Slate Chalkboard from our online store.
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Writing Name Using Wet-Dry-Try
Jan shows Ella how to write her name doing wet-dry-try. This motivational activity helps children have fun as they develop fine motor skills with small tools including little chalk bits. Purchase the Blackboard with Double Lines from our online store.
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Workbook Writing
Lowercase "a" in the 1st Grade Workbook
The Handwriting Without Tears student workbooks feature step-by-step directions to help children learn letter formation. The Learn and Check section at the end of the teaching page helps them check their own work. Purchase the My Printing Book first grade workbook from our online store.
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Lowercase Letters in the Kindergarten Workbook
Children learn lowercase letters easily using the Handwriting Without Tears student workbooks. Multisensory activities and illustrated step-by-step instructions make it easy for children. Purchase the Letters and Numbers for Me kindergarten workbook from our online store.
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Sentence School
Learning to Write with Sentence School – Pre-Writing Lesson
In this first of four lessons, Tania introduces the children to basic sentence skills in a fun way through active participation. The children develop vocabulary, and learn by hearing and trying out new words.
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Learning to Write with Sentence School – Weekly Lesson #1
In this second of four lessons, Tania demonstrates word association and meaning by demonstrating each sentence as the children learn it. Direct association with something familiar has been shown to help children create a mental map for word learning. Purchase Sentence School from our online store.
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Learning to Write with Sentence School – Weekly Lesson #2
In this third of four lessons, Tania helps the children practice saying grammatically correct sentences. Saying complete sentences out loud gives children speaking practice, and develops their speaking and writing skills. Purchase Sentence School from our online store.
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Learning to Write with Sentence School – Weekly Lesson #3
In this last of four videos, Tania models sentence writing on the blackboard for the class. Seeing how you write helps make it easier for children to learn to write. Purchase Sentence School from our online store.
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Sentence School Testimonial
Janis, a Kindergarten teacher at a Blue Ribbon school, talks about her experience with Sentence School, and its use of quick active lessons to build sentence skills, including: grammar, vocabulary, concepts and writing.
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Teaching Tips for Educators
FAQ: Why do you teach capital letters first?
Why do you teach capitals before you teach lowercase letters? Related Products: |
FAQ: Why do you use paper with double lines?
Why do you use paper with double lines? My childs school uses three lines. Purchase the Double Line Notebook Paper from our online store.
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Letter Size and Placement Activity
Children have fun learning size and placement of tall, small, and descending letters with the letter sizes and places activity. Purchase the My Printing Book first grade workbook from our online store.
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Writing Using the Helping Hand
Watch Eli learn about using his helping hand to improve his posture and paper skills while writing. This playful approach makes it learning fun and memorable. Purchase the Regular Double Line Notebook Paper from our online store.
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