How-To Videos
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Flip Crayon Activities
Crayon Grip
Diane uses The Pencil Grip Song to teach tripod grip. This engaging approach holds the students attention while reinforcing the lesson.
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Tripod Grip with Flip Crayons
Diane teaches finger names and functions. This playful approach helps young children develop grasp.
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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.
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Hands-on Materials
R with Roll-A-Dough Letters
Here, Ryan has fun building letters with roll-a-dough while improving his finger strength and motor skills. This multisensory activity is also a great prewriting exercise.
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Roll-A-Dough Letters Teach Name
Use of consistent language helps young children learn to follow instructions. The roll-a-dough multisensory activity helps them improve finger strength, fine motor skills, and letter recognition skills as they children build letters step by step.
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Magic C Bunny Helps Teach Handwriting
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.
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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.
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Music and Movement
Music and Movement Teach Positional Concepts
Children love music. It promotes movement and learning. The Tap Tap Tap song and activity are a fun way for young children to warm up and learn positional concepts as well as body parts as they follow the rhythm and imitate the teachers motions.
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Teaching Tips for Educators
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.
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Letter Sizes and Places Activities
Children have fun learning size and placement of tall, small, and descending letters with the letter sizes and places activity.
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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.
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Ella's Name on Blackboard
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.
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Letter "O" on the Slate
Its a perfect O on the slate. The wet-dry-try exercise makes teaching and learning letter formation fun and memorable.
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Letter K on the Slate
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.
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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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- 1st Grade Printing Teacher's Guide
- Rock, Rap, Tap & Learn CD
- Slate Chalkboard
- Blackboard with Double Lines
- Gray Block Paper
- Big Sheet Draw and Write Paper
- Wide Double Line Notebook Paper
- Draw and Write Notebook
- Print Alphabet Desk Strips
- Print Wall Cards
- Little Chalk Bits
- Little Sponge Cubes
- Double Line Sentence Strips
- Double Line Chart Tablet
- Magic C Bunny Puppet
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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- Kindergarten Teacher's Guide
- MAT MAN SHAPES
- MAT MAN HATS
- Rock, Rap, Tap & Learn CD
- Wood Pieces Set for Capital Letters
- Capital Letter Cards for Wood Pieces
- Mat for Wood Pieces
- Slate Chalkboard
- Blackboard with Double Lines
- Gray Block Paper
- Big Sheet Draw and Write Paper
- Wide Double Line Notebook Paper
- Draw and Write Notebook
- FLIP Crayons™
- Pencils for Little Hands
- Print Alphabet Desk Strips
- Name Plates
- Print Wall Cards
- Double Line Sentence Strips
- Double Line Chart Tablet
- Little Chalk Bits
- Little Sponge Cubes
- Magic C Bunny Puppet