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Handwriting Without Tears Letter Order

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• by Victoria Wood OTR/L
• November 2, 2023

In this blog post, we’re covering Handwriting Without Tears letter order, or the specific order to teach letter formation based on the handwriting curriculum, Handwriting Without Tears (Learning Without Tears). We’ve previously covered the cursive HWT order so this is a nice resource to have on hand.

Have you noticed most teachers teach letters in alphabetical order? The first thing they teach is name writing, then writing the alphabet. This seems like a logical progression, but is not the most effective or efficient method. There are several different handwriting programs out there to address this important skill. Many of them do not teach letters in order.

One program specifically is; Handwriting without Tears (now called Learning without Tears). The Handwriting without Tears letter order is vastly different than writing letters in sequential order.

handwriting without tears letter order

The Handwriting without Tears program is popular among therapists for good reasons:

• It’s a research-backed curriculum
• The program is designed to be easy to teach and easy to learn
• Developmentally appropriate sequence
• It uses explicit instruction combined with guided practice
• Promotes handwriting automaticity
• Multisensory learning to support a variety of learning styles, including kinesthetic learners , visual learners, and auditory learners
• Uses hands-on tools and activities in handwriting lessons
• Uses intuitive lesson booklets to promote learning

According to the folks at Learning without Tears, “Pre-K–5 students move through a developmentally appropriate teaching order from capital, to lowercase, and cursive letters. This design helps children master handwriting skills in the easiest, most efficient way. Instead of teaching 52 letter symbols with a mishmash of different sizes, positions, and confusing starting places, we divide and conquer.”

what is handwriting without tears letter order?

If you have used the HWT program, you may have noticed the letters are not in sequential order . In other words, the Handwriting Without Tears program does not teach letter formation in order from A-Z.

This sounds counter intuitive, as students are generally taught letters in order. Child development skills , as found in the Peabody Developmental Motor Scales , demonstrates the visual motor progression of fine motor skills . We cover some of this in our post on drawing milestones .

When developing writing skills, pre-writing lines emerge. This begins when the stages start at scribbling, vertical and horizontal lines, then circular forms. After these are mastered, more difficult designs such as a cross, square, and triangle are developed.

Learners who are still mastering the basics of writing lines, do not have the necessary skills to form more complex designs such as the letter A which relies on diagonal lines, or B which requires semicircles. Students often get stuck at this stage if they are unable to form these letters.

The Handwriting without Tears letter order promotes success, focusing on letters that use the preliminary pre-writing strokes. This is why letters with straight lines are taught first and in a group, known as letter families .

HWT Letter Order Groups

The Handwriting Without Tears letter order progresses like this:

• L, F, E, H, T, I
• U, C, O, Q, G, S, J, D, P, B, R
• K, A, N, M, V, W, X, Y, Z

Handwriting Without Tears Straight Line Letters

The first letters are L, F, E, H, T, I. Notice all of these letters require only vertical and horizontal lines.

This is the first developmental skill mastered. Imagine the success of learning six letters right away, rather than struggling on A and B!

handwriting without tears Circular Letters

The second set of letters are circular: U, C, O, Q, G, S, J, D, P, B, R. The letters within each section progress in level of difficulty from U to R.

Notice that letter B is 16th on the list! This is vastly different than the traditional method of teaching it as letter number two.

While R, is a circular letter, it also contains a diagonal, which segues into the third uppercase letter formation group.

Grab our Letter B Worksheet for sensory motor practice to form the semicircles that make up this circular letter.

We also have a Letter C Worksheet for improving the circular motion of the pencil which carries over to other letters (Also known as magic c and is helpful for forming the lowercase letter counterparts).

Further down the list is letter D, and you can use our Letter D Worksheet to work on the straight line followed by a rotated semicircular motion that then carries over to the remaining letters with the same motor pattern: P, B, and R.

handwriting without tears Diagonal Letters

The third and final set of letters are the diagonals. Copying a triangle is one of the last basic shapes to learn as a developmental progression.

Forming diagonals is tricky. Not only are students crossing midline , they are doing so in a top to bottom fashion.

The letters in this series are: K, A, N, M, V, W, X, Y, Z. A is number 18 on the list. Now you can see why students struggle to learn the very first letters of the alphabet. They are not developmentally ready for this skill at the time we are insisting on teaching it.

Try using our Letter A Worksheet for sensory motor practice to form the diagonals and starting the letter in the middle.

Starting Position for handwriting without tears letters

An additional method HWT uses to group uppercase letters is their starting position. This is not my personal method of teaching, as I prefer the developmental sequence.

When focusing on the starting point for letters, Handwriting Without Tears groups the upper case letters into three catagories, depending on where the pencil starts:

• Frog Jump Capital Letters – F, E, D, P, B, R, N, M
• Corner Starting Capital Letters – H, K, L, U, V, W, X, Y, Z
• Center Starting Capital Letters – C, O, Q, G, S, A, I, T, J

Take a look at the Frog Jump Capitals that start at the left corner (F, E, D, P, B, R, N, M). Notice several of these letters are more complex with diagonal lines. This can be a challenge for some students that struggle with the pre-writing lines, specifically diagonals. Additionally, this grouping of letters includes several different pencil stroke patterns, which can also be a challenge for some students.

Their second grouping is the starting corner capitals (H, K, L, U, V, W, X, Y, Z). This grouping of letters also includes a mix of straight line letters, diagonals, and curves.

Lastly, the center starters (C, O, Q, G, S, A, I, T, J) are addressed. Again, this group of letters includes more curved lines, but again, a mix of straight lines, curved lines, and diagonals. Notice how many of the last letters are commonly used letters. This is another reason why this particular HWT letter order might be a challenge for some.

uppercase or lowercase letter order first?

There has been some discussion on whether it is better to teach upper or lowercase letter formation first. We cover the developmental reasons in our linked blog post.

The research has been inconclusive, as there are benefits to both.

• While lowercase letters are everywhere, capital letters are the first introduced in toddler books and puzzles.
• Lowercase letters will be used much more than capital, but uppercase letters are much easier to form due to the simple straight lines.
• There is no retracing or letters that sit below the line in uppercase letters
• B/D are not as confusing as lowercase b and d when writing capital letters
• When reading, many agree that teaching letter sounds is more important than their names, therefore teaching lowercase letter sounds first, may be more beneficial than teaching the letter names
• Consider the age of your learners – preschooler should write uppercase first, as that is their developmental progression stage. Kindergarten and later students may be able to start in alphabetical order, however for delayed students, this can cause frustration

handwriting without tears lowercase letter order

For the same reason we teach uppercase letters in a progressive order, Handwriting without Tears lowercase letter order is important also. These letters are formed in developmental progression as with the uppercase.

• Just like their capital letters – c, o, s, v, w, t (just like uppercase only lower cross)
• Magic C – these high frequency letters (a, g, d) start with a magic “c”. This helps differentiate between b and d. While “q” is a “magic c” letter, it is taught later to avoid confusion with g
• The rest of the vowels – u, i, e
• Familiar from capitals – l, k, y, j
• Diving letters – these letters dive down (p, r, n, m, h, b)
• Tricky leftovers – f has a tricky start, letter q is taught here to avoid confusion with g, x and z are familiar but infrequently used
• Once these are learned, I add another group: the drop down letters. These are the most difficult to write correctly as all of the other letters sit on the line. When I am teaching correct letter formation, j, g, p, q, y are stressed as their own group, after the others have been learned

cursive handwriting letter order

As with upper and lowercase letter formation, cursive letters are formed in groups. While HWT has their way of presenting the cursive letters, I prefer (Amazon affiliate link) “ Loops and other Groups “.

This system groups the letters into the way they are formed. There are the clock climbers, kite strings, loop groups, then hills and valleys. Capital letters are taught last, as they are tricky and not used as frequently.

Here is an interesting post from the OT Toolbox about teaching cursive writing .

How to Teach Cursive Writing is another great resource.

resources to support handwriting without tears letter order

• Learning Without Tears letter strategies uses a multisensory approach to learning letters , which includes creating letters out of clay or wooden blocks, singing songs about letters, to drawing on tiny chalkboards.
• Cursive writing letter order teaches more specifics about writing in letter groups

Everyone is different, as are their learning styles. Ultimately the goal is success. Whether that means using the Handwriting Without Tears Letter Order, or another teaching method, whatever helps and motivates your student is the correct choice. Nothing we teach is one size fits all. That is what makes our job so exciting and dynamic!

Victoria Wood, OTR/L is a contributor to The OT Toolbox and has been providing Occupational Therapy treatment in pediatrics for more than 25 years. She has practiced in hospital settings (inpatient, outpatient, NICU, PICU), school systems, and outpatient clinics in several states. She has treated hundreds of children with various sensory processing dysfunction in the areas of behavior, gross/fine motor skills, social skills and self-care. Ms. Wood has also been a featured speaker at seminars, webinars, and school staff development training. She is the author of Seeing your Home and Community with Sensory Eyes.

The Letters Fine Motor Kit is a supplement to any handwriting curriculum and uses hands-on, multisensory strategies to support letter formation.

Want printable handwriting and sensory motor activities to target the visual motor skills needed for letter writing? Grab a copy of our Letters! Fine Motor Kit . The printable PDF contains 100 pages of hands-on letter writing practice for multisensory handwriting!

Inside the Letters Fine Motor Kit , you’ll find:

• A-Z Multisensory Writing Pages:  Roll a ball of dough letters, ASL sign language letters, gross motor movement, small-scale letter box writing task, finger isolation letter trace, and writing practice area
• Alphabet Fine Motor Clip Cards – Clip clothespins or paper clips to match letters with various fonts to strengthen the hands and focusing on eye-hand coordination, bilateral coordination, visual processing skills, and more.
• Cut and place Fine Motor Mazes – Cut out the letter pieces and trace the maze with a finger to work on eye-hand coordination and finger isolation. Place a small letter on the letter spots to address in-hand manipulation and dexterity skills.
• A-Z Cotton Swab Cards – Includes upper case and lower case letters. Dot the cards using a cotton swab or laminate the cards and use them over and over again.
• A-Z Pattern Block Cards – These cards include a section for tracing with a finger tip for separation of the sides of the hand, eye-hand coordination, and finger isolation during letter formation. There is also a space to “finger write” the letter using the fingertip. This multisensory letter formation activity can be a great brain break during handwriting or literacy tasks. Learners can then form the letter using parquetry blocks.
• Fine Motor Letter Geo-Cards – These geo board cards include A-Z in upper case forms. Users can copy the letter forms in a variety of multi-sensory strategies.
• A-Z Color and Cut Letter Memory Cards – These upper case and lower case letter cards can be used to color for letter formation. Then use them in fine motor matching tasks or in sensory bins.
• Color By Size Sheets – Help learners discriminate between tall letters, small letters, and tail letters. This visual perception activity invites learners to color small areas, using hand muscles for strengthening and handwriting endurance.
• A-Z Building Block Cards – These LEGO block cards invite users to copy the cards to form letters using small building blocks. Users can place the blocks on the cards or copy the letter to address visual shift and visual memory. This activity set comes in upper case and lowercase letter forms.
• A-Z Play Dough Letter Formation Cards – Print off these cards and laminate them to create play dough mats. Learners can form the letters using the arrows to correctly form letters with play dough while strengthening their hands and visual motor skills. Each card includes a space for practicing the letter formation, using a dry erase marker if the cards are laminated.
• Graded Lines Box Writing Sheets – Users can trace and form letters in boxes to work on formation of letters, line awareness, starting points, and letter size.
• Alphabet Roll and Write Sheets – Roll a dice and form the letter associated with the number of dots on the dice. This is a great way to work on letter formation skills using motivation. Which letter will reach the top first? This activity is easily integrated with a rainbow writing task to increase number or repetitions for letter practice.
• Pencil Control Letter Scan – Use the letter bubble tracks to scan for letters. Users can fill in the letters of the alphabet to work on pencil control skills.
• Color and Cut Puzzles – Color the pictures to work on hand strength and letter formation skills. Then cut out the puzzles and build visual perceptual skills.

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Handwriting Without Tears Practice Sheets (Free PDF for Homeschool)

My family loves using the Handwriting Without Tears program in our homeschool. But, we have found that we need more practice than the books provide. I started writing out additional words for my son to practice on handwriting paper, but I was constantly wishing for something better. So, here are some free Handwriting Without Tears practice sheets in PDF format that you can download to use in your homeschool- and tips for how to use them!

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Why Practicing Handwriting is Important

Handwriting is a crucial skill for all students to learn. However, practicing handwriting has gone out of favor in education recently. Here are some reasons why it is important for your child to learn to write with good handwriting, even in a tech-focused world.

Handwriting Practice Helps Kids Communicate

The reality is that no matter how much technology our world has, it is still helpful to be able to communicate in writing from time to time. Children need to know how to be able to write themselves a note. A handwritten thank-you note is still a great follow-up to a job interview, or a present from a relative.

By practicing handwriting with copywork , children are exposed to great works of literature. This can help to improve writing skills as well, as kids copy the style of famous authors.

Good Handwriting is Helpful for Spelling and Reading

Kids who can read what they have written will have an easier time knowing if they spelled the words correctly. This means that handwriting practice, when done correctly, can also help reinforce spelling for kids.

In addition, when children are using correct spelling they will begin to see connections between the letters that they are writing and the sounds that those letters make within the word. This can help with reading skills as well.

Practicing Handwriting Helps with Learning in Other Subjects

Research shows that having good handwriting is helpful for learning in almost every other subject area. Kids who can write quickly and easily will have a much easier time taking notes on what they are learning or completing written assignments.

Good handwriting can even be helpful in a subject like math that doesn’t use words. Kids who can write numbers neatly and organize them in rows and columns will have a much easier time completing complicated math problems.

Lack of Handwriting Skill can be Frustrating

One of the biggest reasons to use handwriting practice sheets in your homeschool is that struggles with handwriting are often contagious, leading to frustration in other subjects and with school in general.

Kids who struggle with handwriting often get frustrated when they know the answers but can’t communicate what they know through their writing. This can lead to resistance from kids and homeschool burnout for families.

Kids who struggle with handwriting will also have a hard time working independently in any subject area. They may need an adult to sit with them and write down the answers to questions they can solve on their own.

At What Age Should a Child Use Handwriting Practice Sheets?

Handwriting is an important skill for students, even at a young age, so it is ok for kids to begin practicing when they are young.

Most kids should be able to hold a pencil with the correct pencil grip sometime between age 4 and 6. This means that it is especially important for younger kids to develop their fine motor muscles with activities like playdough, cutting and gluing, stringing beads, or playing with blocks. This will help them develop the muscles necessary to hold a pencil correctly.

Fun and age-appropriate practice sheets will help kids develop handwriting skills that will help them in learning other subjects, too. No matter what age your child is, it is important to make handwriting practice fun and attainable for your child’s age and maturity level.

Which Handwriting Skills Should My Child Practice?

Good handwriting is made up of several components. Kids should work through each of these components in order as they are learning handwriting.

1. Pencil Grip

The foundation of good handwriting is the correct pencil grip . By age 6, kids should be holding their pencil with a tripod, or three finger, pencil grasp. If your child is not using the correct pencil grip, this is the first thing to correct when practicing handwriting.

2. Letter Formation

It is critical that children learn to form their letters correctly. This means that they are writing with the correct strokes, in the right direction, and in the right order.

Many handwriting practice sheets will include arrows, numbers, or other hints to help kids remember how to form the letters. However, it is important to watch your child forming their letters and make sure that they are following the correct letter formation.

3. Writing Legibly: Pencil Control

Once kids learn how to form their letters, the next step is to give them a lot of practice. This will help them learn to control their pencil and make their letters consistent.

This step takes time and practice to develop. Extra handwriting practice sheets can help to reinforce what students are learning in their handwriting curriculum.

4. Letter Sizing

It is important that children pay attention to where their letters fall on the lines. Are the tall letters touching, but not crossing, the top line? Are the tails of the letters hanging down below the bottom line?

The Handwriting Without Tears program is unique in that is only uses 2 lines, instead of the usual 3. This can make it easier for kids who struggle with the number of lines on traditional handwriting paper. However, students who are used to using Handwriting Without Tears paper should use handwriting practice sheets that have 2-line paper as well.

You can learn more about the Handwriting Without Tears program in my Handwriting Without Tears Preschool Curriculum Review .

5. Letter Spacing

Another important consideration for writing legibly is the spacing between letters and words. Kids need practice to learn how to space the letters in a word close together, but not touching.

Children also need to learn how to leave space between words. This is usually not intuitive for kids when they first learn to write. It can help to teach them to put a finger on their paper where they need to leave a space. This can help them judge how much space to leave between words.

6. Efficiency

Over time, as children continue to practice handwriting, they will learn to write more quickly and easily. This efficiency will help them be able to use their handwriting skills when learning a variety of different subjects.

If you are struggling to teach any of these skills in your homeschool, check out my post on how to improve handwriting for children for more advice and tips.

What to Look for in Handwriting Practice Sheets

Choosing the right handwriting practice sheets is important to make handwriting practice helpful and fun. Here are some things to look for when choosing handwriting practice sheets for your child.

Capital or Lowercase, Printing or Cursive?

First, it is important to look for printables that focus on the kind of letters your child is learning. Most kids learn to print capital letters first, then lowercase letters, and finally to write in cursive. Kids usually spend a year or two working on each of these skills before moving on to the next one.

Make sure the handwriting practice sheets that you choose focus on the kinds of letters, and even the specific letters that your child is learning.

What Kind of Lines?

Handwriting practice sheets should include guide lines so children know where to put their letters. Traditional handwriting programs usually use a 3-line system to show where the top, middle, and bottom of each letter should be.

The Handwriting Without Tears program uses a 2-line system that eliminates the top line to make it easier for kids to see where letters should go.

Your handwriting practice sheets should use the same kind of lines that your child is used to seeing in their handwriting curriculum. Consistency will help kids practice without getting confused or frustrated.

Reinforcement for Forming Letters Correctly

It is important that when kids are practicing handwriting, they are forming their letters correctly each time they write them. Practice is only helpful if kids are practicing correctly.

The common saying is that “practice makes perfect,” but a better saying is that “perfect practice makes progress.” Practicing forming letters incorrectly won’t help your child. In fact, it will cement bad habits and make it harder for your child to learn to write correctly.

Look for handwriting practice sheets that reinforce how to form new letters with arrows, numbers, or other helpful hints.

It is also important to make sure that handwriting practice is fun for your child. Kids will be more likely to want to practice if they enjoy doing so. Look for themed practice sheets or worksheets with fun facts to copy. This will help kids enjoy their handwriting practice more.

How to Use Handwriting Practice Sheets

Here are some tips to help you get the most out of your PDF Handwriting Practice Sheets!

Use a Laminator

The best way to get the most out of your printables is to laminate the pages. Pages that are laminated will hold up better to repeated use by multiple kids. In addition, your child can write on laminated pages with a dry erase marker.

If you don’t have one yet, a single sheet laminator is a fantastic investment for your homeschool. You will save the money that you spend on a laminator many times over as it will allow you to re-use consumable resources!

If you don’t want to invest in a laminator, you can also slip individual practice sheets into a plastic page protector sleeve to get the same result.

Focus on Quality over Quantity

When kids are using handwriting practice sheets, it is important to focus on quality over quantity. Make sure that your child is doing only as much handwriting as they can do carefully and well. If that’s only one page, or even part of a page, it is better to practice less with correct letter formation.

Sometimes, when kids have too much to do, they get overwhelmed and just try to “get it done” rather than doing their best work. Avoid this by asking your child to do less.

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Multisensory activities and manipulatives appeal to all learning styles and provide a hands-on approach to handwriting.

We help children develop their writing skills through explicit, multisensory, play-based instruction. Children move, touch, feel, and manipulate real objects as they learn habits and skills essential for writing. Research supports multisensory teaching to address childrens’ diverse learning styles: visual, tactile, auditory, and kinesthetic.

Activities with hands-on instruction materials address different senses to teach correct formation, spacing, and sequencing. Each letter lesson begins with a multisensory introduction. Fun activities are rotated to add variety and appeal.

We use music to speak to children and promote movement and memory. Other multisensory lessons in the teachers’ guides use Voices, Letter Stories, Door Tracing, Air Writing, and Mystery Letter Game to teach letter formation and placement on lines.

Cross-Curricular Connections

Teach handwriting alongside other subjects! Fun letter lessons and writing activities connect handwriting to math, social studies, ELA, and science.

Rich content engages children and allows you to connect your learning from all subjects and practice handwriting.

In addition to handwriting, we want the workbooks to have connections to other grade appropriate curricula. We created pages that help you teach handwriting and review other grade-appropriate skills and topics that connect to other lessons.

For example, when children learn lowercase o, they learn that O is for owl. The can color the owl on the page while practicing lowercase o. The lesson then includes a social studies connection to go through an exercise where children compare nocturnal animals (like owls) with diurnal animals. These connections help reinforce learning and make handwriting relevant in all subjects.

Unique Letter Order and Style

Innovative letter order and style are developmentally appropriate and promote easy learning for every letter, print and cursive. Our printing and cursive style helps children succeed in handwriting in an inclusive classroom. The continuous stroke looks like the letters and words children read every day. It’s developmental, prevents reversals, and prepares children for a smooth transition to cursive.

Developmentally, capitals are easier, so we teach them first. The capital teaching order helps teach correct formation and orientation while eliminating reversals. Learning capitals first makes it easy to transition to lowercase letters. By teaching capitals first, we have prepared children for nearly half of the lowercase letters that are similar in formation.

In cursive, we teach lowercase letters first to help children learn cursive skills in the easiest, most efficient way. It’s also developmentally planned to start with letters that are familiar from printing, making an easier transition from print to cursive. Once children have mastered lowercase letters, they transition to capitals. Find out more about our vertical cursive style in this video.

Clean, simple and intuitive approach to workbooks invites personalization and creativity and fosters handwriting success. Lefty-friendly with large step-by-step models.

Child Friendly, Simple Language

When teaching letter formation, we eliminate language that assumes that children understand left/right orientation, clockwise/counter-clockwise, or forward/backward circles. We make it easy by using fewer, carefully selected words that children know or understand.

Large Step-by-Step Models

Our workbooks contain large step-by-step images that show students how to make each part of every letter.

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The black and white pages in our workbooks are clean and clear. Our simple workbook pages are appealing and invite children to color and draw once they have finished the lesson. The illustrations promote left-to-right directionality to encourage correct visual tracking and writing direction.

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Our workbooks provide activities for children to experience different types of lined paper. They begin with the simple double lines, then we teach them to master all lines.

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Our workbooks are lefty friendly. Teaching pages provide models on the left and right so that lefthanded children can easily see the model they are copying. Lefties never have to lift their hands or place them in an awkward position.

Double lines and line generalization activities promote legible writing. When children know how to place letters, they can write well on any style of lined paper.

To become successful and fluent writers, children need to prepare for all styles of paper. Our double lines quickly teach children how to place letters. Small letters fit in the middle space, tall letters go in the top space, descending letters go in the bottom space.

Double lines help children place letters correctly, eliminating line confusion. The base line guides placement, and the mid line controls the size of letters. Students who struggle with start and placement on other styles of paper succeed on double lines.

Line Generalization: Success on all Paper Styles

Many children have trouble understanding multiple lines. Giving children a blue line, a dotted line, a red line, and another blue line and then asking them to start at “2 o’clock between the dotted line and the red line” is too confusing.

When children learn with double lines , they will have quick success with all lines they will encounter in the classroom.

Assessments and Tailored Instructional Plans

Easy-to-use assessments track handwriting progress in the classroom and support your instruction for year round handwriting success.

Assessing handwriting is easy with the Screener of Handwriting Proficiency. Helpful for every teacher and student, the Screener is a free, easy-to-administer, whole-class assessment that helps educators and specialists assess critical and measurable skills that students need for success.

Works with any handwriting curriculum to identify and measure specific skill areas where students need print or cursive instruction and intervention throughout the year. Includes both formative and summative assessments to identify critical gaps in literacy and handwriting skills (letter memory, reversals, and sentence structure). Helps educators better focus handwriting instruction.

Writing Readiness

By playing, singing, and building letters, transitional kindergarten and kindergarten students develop the important skills they need to print words, sentences, and paragraphs. You will teach grip, letter and number recognition, and capital and number formation.

Children learn to print using hands-on materials and developmentally appropriate activities. In grades 1–2, students progress to printing mastery with lessons that focus on functional writing practice.

Our simple cursive style helps children transition easily from print. Using the same multisensory techniques, the cursive program begins in third grade when children have better developed hand-eye coordination.

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The Handwriting Without Tears program teaches your child the skills he or she needs to be successful with handwriting in school. Handwriting Without Tears is a developmentally based program created by Jan Olsen, an occupational therapist, that aims to improve a child's fine motor skills as well as visual skills through fun and interactive activities. The Center for Independence at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh provides the program. Occupational Therapy professionals will work with the children in this program.

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Our handwriting without tears worksheets pdf assists in all of these areas while also serving as an excellent resource for overall penmanship improvement. We provide tracing handwriting practice sheets in both print and cursive for all 26 letters of the alphabet, as well as themed pages with attractive, colorful designs that encourage children to practice.

Aside from our handwriting without tears worksheets , parents can get their children to jot down the next store list (in cursive!), make a homemade birthday card for a sibling, write a thank you letter to their teacher, or even write a letter to their future self.

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Everything You Need To Know About Handwriting Without Tears

Are you looking for a way to teach handwriting to your little one? Maybe you are looking for a cursive writing curriculum? Either way, you should check out all that Handwriting Without Tears has to offer!

This is not only a guide to all things Handwriting Without Tears , but also several of our Curriculum Choice authors share their personal experiences using Handwriting Without Tears in their homeschools.

What is Handwriting Without Tears?

Handwriting Without Tears (HWT)is a handwriting program created by an occupational therapist. It is a 40 year program with proven success for thousands of students. From emergent writing in Pre-K to Cursive mastery in fifth grade, Handwriting Without Tears helps students develop fluent writing success through explicit handwriting instruction.

Levels of Handwriting Without Tears

There are seven levels available starting in the Pre-K/K level up to 5th grade.

1. Letters and Numbers is recommend for Kindergarten.

Letters and Numbers for Me is where Kindergarten students, or those working at that level, learn capitals, lowercase letters, numbers, words, and sentences. Activities form good handwriting habits and develop strong writers.

A Review of Letters And Numbers By Kyle

When we first began our Handwriting Without Tears journey I read a lot of the kindergarten manual. But after that I have never read or used a teacher’s manual with this curriculum. You may want to but I just haven’t found it to be necessary.

We have a lot of optional items that we use with this program (See the Hands-On Materials section down below) but you really only need the book and a pencil to do this. Keep in mind I’ve done this with five children, including one with special needs and one with learning disabilities.

How we use it in our home:

• First I demonstrate how to follow the instructions HWT provides for creating each letter.
• During the first semester I often had the children make the letters using either the wood pieces, roll a dough or stamp & see.
• After about 1/4 to 1/2 of a year they start being able to follow the instructions themselves. I then just hover to make sure they are writing the letter correctly and in the correct order. HWT tells them which lines or curves to draw and in which order.

HWT provides clear instructions for letter creation. So clear in fact that my five-year-old boy completes his handwriting independently and well. We run the gamut on the kind of learners that we have! HWT has served each of our unique children well. It is also very easy for the teacher to use. ~ Kyle

2. My Printing Book is recommended for 1st grade.

My Printing Book gives your students opportunities to review their printing abilities and reinforce other language skills such as grammar, writing paragraphs, and recognizing key word roots. The hands-on material is also suggested for this grade. There is the 4″x6″ slate chalkboard used to practice making letters. (See more about the chalkboard down below)

3. Printing Power is recommended for 2nd grade.

With Printing Power the student continues to master his printing skills with advanced paragraphs, poems, and language arts activities using single line practice pages. With Learn & Check, teachers and students can seamlessly review letter, word, and sentence skills. Combine your handwriting instruction with punctuation, paragraph, poem, and language arts.

4. Or you can choose Cursive Kickoff 2nd grade.

Cursive Kickoff is the first book that teaches cursive, it facilitates an easy transition from printing to cursive. Cursive Kickoff gives second grade students the option of beginning cursive instruction earlier. After a quick review of print, lessons progress to teaching cursive letters in developmental groups based on formation.

5. Cursive Handwriting is recommended for 3rd grade.

With Cursive Handwriting for 3rd graders they will easily transition from printing to cursive with fun, engaging warm-ups. Students cover cross-curricular lessons that focus on paragraphs, poems, and composition with incorporated letter review for words and sentences.

6. Cursive Success is recommended for 4th Grade

With Cursive Success students develop cursive fluency with lessons that feature advanced language arts and cross-curricular activities. Review & Mastery pages help your students practice their cursive handwriting while giving them opportunities to review letters and connections.

A Review of Cursive Success from Stephanie

The Cursive Success book focuses on making cursive letters connect and forming them into words and sentences. The publisher recommends these workbooks for 3rd and 4th grade but if you feel that your child is ready then I am sure they could be used in the earlier grades as well.

HWT Cursive Success workbook contains the following sections:

• An introduction.
• A warm up for basic letters and connection of  letters to make simple words.
• More difficult cursive letters, special letter connections (ex. o, w, v, b) and more complex words.
• Capital letters.
• Activity Pages which apply cursive to real writing of sentences and paragraphs.

The first fifty-five pages review and give instruction for the lower case letters. Then capital letters are covered. 

And in addition to all this, the last 20 pages incorporates grammar concepts such as: compound words, synonyms and antonyms, homonyms, use of contractions and apostrophes, poems, similes, use of quotations, acronyms, dictionary definitions, and more.

This really impressed me because the curriculum doesn’t just go through the letters and random sentences to copy but applies cursive to real writing skills. This is so important because the objective of handwriting skills is to help children write proficiently enough to aid them in all their studies.  All the while, it never loses the feel of a handwriting text so you never find yourself somehow teaching grammar instead of doing a handwriting lesson.

What Sets Handwriting Without Tears Apart From Others Is It’s Vertical Style Approach

What I believe sets this curriculum apart form all others is its ease of use. It truly does take the tears out of handwriting.  It uses a vertical style approach and most children develop a vertical stroke first when learning to print, so it is much easier for a child to transition from print to this form of cursive. ~ Stephanie

7. Can-Do Cursive is recommended for 5th grade.

Practice makes perfect when it comes to cursive writing. Can-Do Cursive is perfect for the child who needs another year to master their cursive writing skills. Designed for fifth grade students and above, Can-Do Cursive gives your students opportunities to review their handwriting abilities and reinforce other language skills such as grammar, writing paragraphs.

Real Life Example Of Using Handwriting Without Tears (Daughter Is a Lefty!)

We started using Handwriting Without Tears right from the beginning of when we started homeschooling. It has proven to be an excellent program in our home. The beauty of the curriculum is how simple it is for the child to learn! We started using the program at the 1st grade level. My daughter is a lefty and I knew I wanted a handwriting program that would help her to write beautifully.

What is a typical lesson like? It is a simple program to implement. My children do 1-2 pages for each lesson. Each new skill is clearly taught in the child’s book. HWT uses simple explanations for each new skill. In the lower grades, HWT uses “magic bunny” to show how to make new letters.

In the older grades, HWT continues to use simple explanations and drawings that the child can easily understand. The lessons are short and can be done in 15 minutes or less! The teacher guides provides tips and activities for each lesson.

About HWT Unique Writing Paper

Their unique writing paper is unlike any other handwriting program. The writing paper does not have the typical three lines with the middle line being a dotted line. HWT believes typical handwriting paper causes line confusion for many students. 

HWT created writing paper with only 2 lines.

• The bottom line keeps the child’s writing straight.
• The second line called the mid-line controls the size of the letters.

HWT believes by having only 2 lines will cause less confusion for the child.

3 Different Paper Levels:

• wide double line
• regular double line
• narrow double line

Handwriting With Tears Hands-on Materials

The Handwriting Without Tears Hands-on materials are multi-sensory materials designed for children who are getting ready to learn to write and for those who are developing their handwriting skills.

Shannon says, “ I have used these with my children starting at age three, and even my oldest at age seven still enjoyed and benefited from using them.”

Capital Letter Wood Pieces

These are used to teach formation of the capital letters.

For example, students learn to take a “big line”, put it on the left, then add a “big curve” on the right to make the letter “D”.

The wood pieces are also used to teach children how to make “Mat Man”, a simple stick figure person.

Children also learn positional concepts such as top, middle, bottom, left, and right as you use the pieces with them. This vocabulary, as well as “big line”, “little line”, “big curve” , “little curve”, is used in teaching letter formation with all of the HWT products.

Stamp-and-See-Screen

Shannon says, “My children have enjoyed all of these HWT materials over the years, but the Stamp-and-See is probably their absolute favorite.”

This is a 4″ x 6″ magnetic screen that comes with a set of four magnetic wood pieces (big line, little line, big curve, little curve), and a chalk-sized magnetic writing tool.

You use the laminated cards that come with the roll-a-dough set, place one on the magnetic screen, and then use the magnetic wood pieces to stamp the letter on top of the card. When you remove the card, voila – you have made the letter!

After working with the magnetic stamps, you can then use the writing tool to trace over the letter card. Once again, when you remove the card, you can see the letter that you’ve made. I want to mention that the writing tool is the size of a small piece of chalk. Handwriting Without Tears encourages using short pencils and pieces of chalk to help children achieve a correct pencil grip as they are learning to write. This approach has worked wonders with my own children’s pencil grips.

Roll-A-Dough Letters

This product includes a 4″ x 6″ plastic tray, a set of 18 double-sided, laminated capital letter and number cards, and a container of dough.

A letter or number card is placed in the plastic tray, and then the child forms the dough into the shapes needed to make the letter and places them over the letter card.

The dough is terrific for strengthening finger and hand muscles, as children roll, push, and shape the dough into “snakes” to form their capital letters. The tray can also be used for letter practice with rice, shaving cream, or sand.

(Shannon says, “Occasionally I am brave enough to do the “messy” stuff because my children are such tactile learners and really do enjoy it. I just make sure there is a plastic tablecloth underneath the work surface for easy clean-up.)

Slate Chalkboard

This is another favorite in Shannon’s home. It’s a 4″ x 6″ slate in a wood frame with a smiley face in the top left-hand corner. The smiley reinforces top, bottom, left, and right, and also reminds children to start their letters at the top.

The chalkboard is used in combination with a method called “Wet, Dry, Try” to teach letter formation.

First the teacher writes the letter with the chalk, the child uses a wet sponge and makes the letter strokes to erase the letter, and then uses his finger to trace over the wet strokes. Then the child uses a paper towel to dry the wet strokes. Finally, the child gets to use the chalk to write the letter. The child has practiced writing the letter four times using four different methods and typically has had fun doing it!

Hands-on Materials: The Bottom Line

Shannon says, “Using this tactile approach with all the handwriting Without Tears Hands-on Materials to teach letter formation has helped my children to gain confidence in their handwriting skills while having fun at the same time.”

Purchasing Handwriting Without Tears

Handwriting Without Tears is a no-fuss program that is simple to use and very affordable. You can purchase everything you need right from their website.

The Student Books are $12.45 a piece.

Teacher Guides are $24.99 each. The teacher guides are simple but do provide plenty of instructions, tips, activities, and lesson plans. Korey says, “ As homeschool moms we often ask “Do I even need the teacher’s guide?” I do recommend using the TG to get the full benefit of the program. There are manipulatives available for all the grade levels. As the parent you can chose to incorporate the manipulatives or not. The manipulatives are wonderful for a tactile learner.”

Bundles – Plus they offer a variety of money saving bundles.

More Handwriting Options For Your Homeschool

20 Top Handwriting Resources for Your Homeschool – Even in this digital age, being able to clearly handwrite and read handwriting is an important skill. Most public schools no longer teach cursive. So how will kids learn to sign their name? How will they read things like their grandparents letters, old documents, etc.? This collection of Homeschool Handwriting Resources is designed to help you teach your children to legibly write in print or cursive.

Heidi Ciravola is mom to three kids who were all homeschooled. Two have graduated college and one is finishing homeschooling high school. She spends much of her time navigating the high school waters (from electives to college prep) and reviewing homeschool curriculum for all ages. You can find her writing about these things as well as her love of books and homeschool life in general over at Starts At Eight .

Reader Interactions

July 15, 2009 at 9:43 am

LOVED this review!

July 15, 2009 at 1:03 pm

I’ve been wondering about this program. Thanks for the review.

July 15, 2009 at 1:08 pm

HWT is by far the best handwriting curriculum that we have ever used–and we have tried many! I am just sorry I didn’t know about it 15 years ago when we started our homeschooling journey.

September 5, 2009 at 2:40 pm

I will say that the one drawback of the program is that I found it difficult to find my way around in it at first. There is so much information to absorb. I would have preferred a format that had Lesson 1 and suggest game/activity/practice for each day instead of pages and pages for me to read and try to absorb as a teacher. Philosophy notes could be inserted throughout the text with an TOC for that, too. I taught handwriting in the public school for years but just found this program while homeschooling my daughter. I’m on week 2 of using the K version and I do think it is the best and already purchased the PK to use with little brother.

October 25, 2009 at 10:08 pm

Unfortunately I do not agree with the majority of reviews of this program. I find absolutely no reason to not integrate the learning of letter formation with the knowledge of letter names and sounds. The heirarchy of learning submits that first, children learn to listen as infants, later begin to speak, they they begin to apply that knowledge of speaking and sounds to the abstract symbols of letters. Following this extremely challenging process, is the ability to put those sounds together within text along with understanding that text’s meaning. Once this begins, the children are able to begin to write their letters with meaning. It is absolutely beyond me as to why this program initiates teaching the children upper case letters first when all of written print for the children to read consists of a majority of lower case letters. If the reason is merely because, “it’s easier,” a new reason needs to be found.

May 6, 2011 at 10:53 pm

I too thought that kids should learn the lowercase letters first since the vast majority of what they read and write will be lowercase. Then I began teaching my daughter to print her letters. After over a year, I finally realized my stubbornmess on this issue was a stumbing block on HER path to learning to print.

Truly, “it’s easier” is the only reason needed to teach uppercase first. Kids develop fine motor skills at vastly different rates. The uppercase letters are simply easier to write and mastering them gives kids a confidence boost, encourging them to continue learning to write. Forcing kids with average or even lagging fine motor skills to try to master lowercase letters first is almost cruel.

Now, why should learning to form the letters be separate from learning the letter sounds? Same reason – kids gain the necessary fine motor skills at vastly different rates that are not related to their developmental abiltiy to learn to read. My daughter could recognize all of the alphabet and knew her letter sounds at 2.5 years. She was sounding out words by the time she turned 3.5 and is reading at an early first grade level now at 4.5 years. But she only just developed the fine motor skills necessary to draw decent lines and curves. Should I have held off on teaching her to read? Of course not. And if she HAD been ready to learn to write as she was learning her letters, then I could have easily integrated the two lessons myself.

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FREE Handwriting Without Tears® style Letter A practice worksheets FREEBIE

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Handwriting Without Tears® style practice printables - capital letter and lower case letter A. These are practice worksheets that enrich your Handwriting Without Tears® curriculum. Although this set is only for the letter A, the worksheets I've created follow the same letter order as the HWT suggested order of learning. It is important that each letter be formed with the same strokes and that the right strokes are also done in the same order as described and taught in the HWT manual. These practice sheets reinforce the same strokes as your HWT curriculum.

The simple imagery and black & white pages are consistent with the HWT style. Unlike many other HWT printables, the capital letter worksheets have only the capital letters. Most other handwriting printables include the accompanied lower case letter. The HWT teacher's guide highly discourages this. Their teaching guidelines suggest starting with capital letters alone before teaching the lower case letters.

NEWLY ADDED! This Letter A practice set includes two versions:

• The traditional two-lined version as seen in the Handwriting Without Tears® curriculum
• The familiar three-lined version used in most primary level curriculums

If you are looking for high quality practice printables to use along side of your Handwriting Without Tears® curriculum, you have found it here.

It is important for new writers to practice everyday for a short, focused time. Daily focused practice is an important long term component of building good handwriting skills. Many times children are taught each letter once with a page of practice and then it is assumed that they know how to write properly. Continued daily practice and attention to letter formation is required to develop good handwriting. These practice sheets are designed to build your student's handwriting skills and confidence.

These worksheets are an excellent value. Print off as many as you need, as often as you'd like without having to purchase additional student workbooks. Perfect for daily handwriting practice!

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Most of the products sold on TpT are created with programs such as PowerPoint ® or Canva. These are great for making slide shows or quick ready to use graphics, but they are not built to create professional quality worksheets . ALL of my products are designed on Adobe InDesign - the industry standard software for layout and typesetting. It is the same software used to create worksheets, textbooks, and magazines that you would find in a bookstore. By using this program, I am able to fine tune every detail in my worksheets to ensure each letter, line, and image is exactly where it should be. This means that your students will have greater success in forming their letter strokes and formations. The lines on the paper are perfectly formatted to align with every letter. And with my extensive typesetting background, I ensured each letter is properly kerned (spaced). All of these are important factors in ensuring success for new and struggling writers. The fonts used on many other TpT handwriting products are not designed for handwriting instruction. The handwriting fonts I use in all of my practice sheets were custom designed by me - specifically to use for handwriting practice.

As a former Disney graphic designer (and typography enthusiast), I took extra care to ensure the authenticity of each HWT letter stroke formation. Many handwriting workbooks and worksheets are poorly designed, requiring students to cram their words into spaces that are too small. ❝ I designed these practice worksheets focusing on size, scale, and proportion of the lines and letters to give optimal success for your beginning writer. ❞ Each practice sheet includes handwriting guide boxes to prevent letter reversals and help students learn how to place letters and numbers. I hope you and your students enjoy these simple yet effective handwriting practice printables.

The worksheets in this freebie came from the following sets:

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✏️ SEASONAL HANDWRITING PRACTICE WORKSHEETS - Get your students in the spirit of the season while keeping consistent with their familiar Handwriting Without Tears® curriculum.

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✏️ ALPHABET HAT CRAFT - a NO mess easy and fun craft to celebrate the letter of the week. These hats feature an area to show off handwriting ability using the Handwriting Without Tears® style letter formation.

✏️ FINE MOTOR JOURNAL - monthly themes , capital letter journal , lowercase journal - These daily journals are perfect for students who are not quite ready for "real" handwriting lessons. These also make excellent pre-writing warm ups.

✏️ INTERMEDIATE LEVEL ALPHABET PRACTICE - Capitals and Lowercase -These are designed for students who already have a grasp on their letters, but still need additional practice.

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