How Handwriting Without Tears Aligns to the Science of Reading Handwriting is one of the foundational skills that leads students toward automatic word recognition. It falls in the bottom skills portion of Scarborough’s rope. As students practice letter formation with Handwriting Without Tears, they...
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research that shows the importance of handwriting fluency to literacy success. Handwriting Without Tears (HWT) is a research-proven, evidence-based, print and digital K-5 supplemental curriculum designed to be easy to teach and easy to learn. HWT is an integrated print and digital solution that ...
A quasi-experimental pretest/posttest control group design was utilized to examine the effectiveness of the Handwriting Without Tears (HWT) program compared to standard, teacher-designed handwriting programs in eight first grade classrooms. At each of four schools, one first grade classroom participated...
Discover Learning Without Tears’ Handwriting Without Tears program for children! A multisensory approach to make writing fun and easy.
"Handwriting Without Tears" is a MUST HAVE programdesigned by Occupational Therapists to improve fine motor, visual perception, and eye-hand coordination skills which impact a child's handwriting abilities. This program is a simple, proven successful, user-friendly resource whichWILL improve your chil...
Handwriting Without Tears is a complete multi-sensory handwriting curriculum with resources for pre-K through fifth grade. First developed by Jan Olson using her occupational therapy background in 1977 to help her first-grade son, this curriculum teaches letters using developmental teaching order. The...
Discover Learning Without Tears’ Handwriting Without Tears program for children! A multisensory approach to make writing fun and easy.
This intervention combined a collaborative teaching model and the use of Handwriting Without Tears to teach lower case letter writing to two classrooms of kindergarteners. Pre- and posttesting with The Print Tool indicated statistically and clinically significant gains on lower case letter memory and ...
Occupational therapist, teacher and educator Learning Without Tears Certification and online resources for finding or becoming a certified handwriting specialist.