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The goal of Handwriting Without Tears^® is to make legible and fluent handwriting an easy and automatic skill for all students. The unique and compelling curriculum design and teaching strategies facilitate this goal.

The curriculum uses multi-sensory techniques and consistent habits for letter formation to teach handwriting to all students—Pre-K through Cursive. In addition, HWT provides parents and teachers the instructional techniques and activities to help improve a child's self-confidence, pencil grip, body awareness, posture and so much more!

Handwriting Without Tears^® uses fun, entertaining and educationally sound principles in its instructional methods. The lessons are well thought out. The curriculum has been successfully taught to millions of teachers, therapists and parents across the country. The end result is truly "Handwriting Without Tears" for the students, the parents the teachers and the administrators!

Child-Friendly Language
In the Handwriting Without Tears^® curriculum, teachers learn to use the same simple words. For example: The names of the 4 basic wood pieces are always “big line, little line, big curve and little curve.” The teachers and children always use those exact words. Capital R is made with a big line, a little curve and a little line. It’s easy and consistent

Lessons and activities introduced in a developmental sequence
The Handwriting Without Tears® curriculum teaches the easiest skills first and then builds upon what the children have learned. Building and forming capital letters is first done with the Wood Pieces on the Letter Cards and on the Mat. The Roll-A-Dough Letters™, Stamp and See Screen™ and Slate activities all follow the stages of learning.

Letters are taught in a sequence that makes sense developmentally. They are grouped together based on similarity of formation. After children master the easier letters, they are ready to move on to letters that are more difficult to form.

At Handwriting Without Tears^® we believe in celebrating the child and his work. We want children to be proud of their work, so we have designed our program to help in this process.