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This Handwriting Bundle for PreK-5th Graders is created by school-based Occupational Therapist, Thia Triggs of Print Path. This Handwriting Without Tears© -style letter font, uses 3-lines to best support your students. There are Go-Dots, Gray-Boxes, and Simple Arrows that inform rather than confuse learners. Best practices include research-based methods incorporating application of developmental and motor learning theories to benefit your struggling learners. Order all 10 titles for $48 instead of the regular total cost of $69.00.
Get 10 of the best handwriting instruction downloads from Print Path for your multi-leveled interventions! Click on each title to learn more or read below for further descriptions.
1. 15 Literacy Centers -Readiness Skills for identifying and constructing letters.
2. Preschool Handwriting Supported Writing of Capital Letters
3. CAPITALS FIRST! Book One – Instruction.
4. CAPITALS FIRST! Book Two – Review. Perfect to supplement your instruction or to send home for homework.
5. Lowercase at Last!: Book One – Instruction.
6. Lowercase at Last!: Book Two and Book 3 – Review. This includes the lowercase letter formation posters.
7. Winged Writers –Automaticity of Handwriting
8. Handwriting Superstars – help teach your students to apply the typically unspoken rules of handwriting.
9. Raise the Roof – Handwriting Conventions & Refinement
10. Alphabet Wall Cards – used to promote phonics development, letter identification, and proper letter formation.
Details: These are all digital files that will be delivered electronically immediately following payment.
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15 Literacy Centers -Readiness Skills for identifying and constructing letters, Differentiated Literacy and Phonics Centers.
Fifteen activities ordered by level of difficulty for building skills of:
• Initial sound recognition,
• Upper and lowercase letter identification,
• Sound and letter association,
• Alphabetic awareness,
• Executive functioning & organizational skills,
• Fine motor skills with wide cutting lines.
Preschool Handwriting Supported Writing of Letters – Make capital letters from Pencil -lines, and Pizza -curves. Pizzas and pencils make learning to print FUN! One Capital Letter per page – so you can use these with your letter of the week curriculum. Includes Teacher guide and path of movement language.
CAPITALS FIRST! Book One – Instruction. Capital letters are made with lines and curves and are the perfect way to begin instruction so that your children learn to start letter formations at the top. Print Path letter font is compatible with Handwriting Without Tears materials but allows your children to learn formations on the three-lined paper they are most likely to encounter. Included in this packet:
• Teacher’s Guide with research based practices outlined.
• Practice book with CAPITAL letters grouped and sequenced in development order.
• Structured Sheets provide phonics and reading connections.
• Gray boxes and go dots serve to help children learn correct motor memory.
• Path of movement language used to teach and help your children recall letter formations.
CAPITALS FIRST! Book Two – Review. Perfect for helping children establish efficient motor habits. Great for extending your curriculum, supplementing instruction, homework and providing RTI. Letters are specifically sequenced to help children use skills they already have to learn new letters. Included in this packet:
• Capital letters are grouped and sequenced in development order.
• Picture cues provide phonics and reading connections.
• Gray boxes and go dots serve to help children learn correct motor memory.
• Path of Movement Language is included throughout the book to help students recall letter formation and for ease of use in individual or small group setting by a teacher, interventionist, school volunteer, or parent.
Lowercase at Last!: Book One – Instruction.
Handwriting instruction, initial sounds, and phonetic word practice for kindergarten or first grade. Provide integrated practice for initial sounds and CVC word writing. Each letter grouping gives you three pages so that you can provide adequate instruction and practice before moving onto the next letters. Letters are reviewed at the end of each of the 5 units – the perfect time for progress monitoring. Included in this packet:
• 54 practice pages, 5 Sequential Units.
• Path of movement language used to teach and help your children recall letter formations and for ease of instruction.
• Pages structured to support single stroke formations, which start at their top.
• Gray boxes and go dots serve to help children learn correct motor memory.
• Picture cues serve to use formation practice to reinforce letter sounds.
• CVC word practice, including previously learned letters.
• Multisensory instruction using whole group participation, movement learning, and three songs.
• Letters are specifically sequenced and grouped to help children use skills they already have to learn new letters.
• Group review of letter formations lets you easily see the level of independence for progress monitoring.
• Group names assist in memory of formations.
• Effective teacher feedback supported by gray boxes, go dots, and stop sign.
• Culturally inclusive images.
• Illustrations provide phonics and reading connections.
• Teacher’s Guide with 8 Best-Practices for Explicit Instruction of Handwriting, Effective use of Feedback when Teaching Handwriting, Lowercase Path of Movement Language, Songs to teach concepts, Handwriting Research and skills addressed for Common Core State Standards.
Lowercase at Last!: Book Two and Book 3 – Review. This download includes: 34 page PDF (designed for children of developmental ages 5 to 8 years who have had good initial explicit instruction, e.g. starting with Capitals First and then Lowercase at Last Book One, but have not yet developed motor memory of using single stroke letter formations and starting letters at the top), 4 page Progress-Monitoring Tool and 8 Lowercase Group Formation posters.
Systematically guide your student through the next steps of legible printing after they are able to copy correct formations. Designed as a Tier II, or Tier III intervention tool to help target specific skills that support legibility this packet can be used for students to:
• Acquire automatic motor-memory of every formation with decreasing auditory and visual cues.
• Discriminate between the three s0izes of lowercase letters and place them in the correct writing space.
• Demonstrate alphabetic awareness and sequencing with one to one correspondence of letter name through the “l m n o p” section of the alphabet.
• Practice visual skills of left to right sequencing, sweep to left margin, and gaze shift back and forth for increasing distances between model and writing space.
• Transpose uppercase to lowercase.
• Acquire visual-memory of lowercase letters.
Winged Writers –Automaticity of Handwriting
Proven multi-sensory methods to teach printing supported by Handwriting Without Tears -style practice pages, lesson plans, letter posters and teacher’s guide. This download includes engaging lesson plans, multi-sensory whole group activities, and practice sheets that are specifically designed to incorporate best teaching practices that promote positive outcomes. This product includes:
• Lesson Plans: 6 pages, 20 weeks of instruction
• Teacher guide: 20 pages
• Winged Writer’s Practice book: 41 pages
• Lowercase Posters: 8 pages
Handwriting Superstars – help teach your students to apply the typically unspoken rules of handwriting. “Second Grade Scores!” is Occupational Therapist-designed and based on current research. This resource includes everything you need to shore up the speed and legibility of second-grade students who struggle with handwriting.
Raise the Roof – Handwriting Conventions & Refinement
Raise the Roof is ideal for third- and fourth-grade students, especially those who are not learning cursive. This book could also be used as a differentiation tool for second-grade students who have solid basic skills, or for fifth-graders who still struggle with automaticity of handwriting.
Teach children to:
• Transition from 3-lined primary paper to standard two-line notebook paper.
• Learn several subtleties of mature handwriting including Raise the Roof, which means writing small enough within lines that the ‘tall letters do not bump their heads’ on the top line.
• Increase the speed of legible automatic printing with the use of a periodic alphabet race activity and charting tool.
• Use the principles of the three spaces of writing to write legibly in open spaces without lines.
• Review correct letter formations within four lowercase letter groupings, with an emphasis on correct top-to-bottom letter formation.
• Practice the use of a conventions checklist. This checklist is especially useful for those children who need greater support to maintain legibility in their daily writing after they have finished Raise the Roof instruction.
This download includes:
• Raise the Roof: 35 pages
• Path of movement language directions: lowercase and uppercase (2 pages)
• Lowercase Group Formation posters.
• Raise the Roof teacher’s guide.
Alphabet Wall Cards
Letter wall cards are used to promote phonics development, letter identification, and proper letter formation. Vowel cards have dark (blue) frames and consonants have light yellow frames. Simple single stroke formations, Go-dots, and arrows help children to learn legible letter formations. They are ideal for young learners as letters start on easy to identify lines rather than in space. “Go dots” and arrows are provided so that your children will learn correct top to bottom single-stroke formations. The use of realistic images, and simple words with short vowels is maximized. Cards are printed in portrait. Two complete sets are included, one set includes and picture label on the cards.
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Customer Feedback
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★I use this with Special Education students and found great success utilizing this during instruction. I like that it has the teacher’s instructions as well as packets (if you choose to print it as a book) for students. Wonderful resource to practice handwriting!
★Amazing product. Made a huge difference for my kiddos.
★This is so comprehensive! Thank you so much!
★This is a great and affordable resource! I needed the Capitals First for my pre-k students but I also work with others in K-4th grade (I’m an OT) so this resource will come in handy across the board! I specifically like how the images you have in the CAPITALS FIRST practice book are familiar images, such as stop signs and other road signs. Also, there is sufficient color to the pages but it isn’t excessive. So many writing pages are overstimulating these days. Ok this is turning into a novel! 🙂 Thanks so much for putting this together!!!
★Love this, such a great bundle!!
★I like the progression of skills in this bundle. We have used D’Nealian in our system. But this year have been using this bundle to fix up some messy writing I have this year!
★I am really impressed with this bundle. I have only used the first Lowercase book so far, but it’s been very high quality. The language is easy to use consistently and will be helpful to share with parents. I’ve used HWT in the past and wanted something with three lines this year. This was the perfect fit for what I wanted and will really benefit my classroom.
★Wow! This is definitely a MEGA BUNDLE!!! So many things to do!! Soooo many! Thank you for making this! Months of materials in here
