Handwriting
Welcome to Handwriting
Methods for Supporting Handwriting Development at Home
This page offers information on handwriting and pre-writing skills. The first resource is a video tutorial. The Second is a handout on how to form letters and numbers, using the Handwriting Without Tears format. Next are visual supports to assist with handwriting, such as a Handwriting Without Tears Letter Chart, and a Printing Checklist. Following that are copies of Handwriting Without Tears style paper that you can print out at home and use for handwriting practice.
Pre-Writing/Handwriting Tutorial
Use this video tutorial to learn all about improving handwriting skills. It follows a natural progression from pre-writing skills (tracing simple shapes) all the way to advanced writing (writing paragraphs). Once you start the video, you can slide the bar on the bottom to the right to get to the appropriate developmental level for your child's skills. At the start of the video is a table of contents for where to find each skill.
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Early Writing on IPad Tutorial
This video gives tips on how to use our favorite iPad tracing apps. This is a great strategy for students who need visual motor practice but resist pencil/paper activities.
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Handout on Handwriting
This handout offers information on how to form letters and numbers, using the Handwriting Without Tears model. It starts with the pre-writing skills of tracing and copying shapes. It progresses through different groups of letters that are clustered together because they are formed in similar ways. It also offers pointers to making letter formation easier, such as starting letters at the top.
Visual Supports
Handwriting Without Tears Letter Formation Chart
Use this chart as a reminder on how to form each letter. Practice forming letters with this chart available and without. Click on the image, expand by clicking "pop-out" button on top right, print, use as a reference for letter formation while your child is writing.
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Scanned Sheets of "Handwriting Without Tears" Style Paper
Print these out to practice handwriting at home
Paper is organized by grade/ability level
Benefits:
1) Paper with a red bottom line (to work on correctly anchoring letters)
2) With a left margin (to work on left margin alignment)
3) With a name line on top (to work on writing the student's name with correct spatial organization)
Paper
Open link and print for home use.
This is Handwriting Without Tears style paper. It is essentially only shows the middle and bottom line. The tall letters (b, d, f, h, k, l, t) go above the line, the short letters (a, c, e, i, m, n, o, r, s, u, v, w, x, z) stay inside the lines, and the hanging/tail letters (g, j, p, q, y) go beyond/below the bottom red line. Click on image, expand by clicking "pop-out" button on top right, and print.
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Paper for Kindergarten to the Beginning of First Grade
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Paper for Late First Grade
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Paper for Second Grade
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Paper for Third Grade
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Paper for Fourth Grade and up
Practice Sheets For Tracing - Copying
Sight words On Block Paper for Uppercase Letter Practice - Trace Then Copy
Click on image, expand by clicking "pop-out" button on top right, and print.
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Sight words On First Grade Paper
For Lowercase Letter Practice - Trace Then Copy
Click on image, expand by clicking "pop-out" button on top right, and print.
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Copying Practice
First From Printed Sentences, Then Typed Sentences
Click on image, expand by clicking "pop-out" button on top right, and print.
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On Kinder Paper
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On First Grade Paper
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On Second Grade Paper
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On Third Grade Paper
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On Fourth+ Grade Paper
Alternate Pencil
A program for students who don't have the ability to write conventionally.
Alternate Pencil
Flip Chart Example
Making an Alternative Pencil
Letter Flip Chart
Click on image, expand by clicking "pop-out" button on top right, and print.
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