Classroom Downloads

Materials to Help You and Parent Handouts

 These downloads were created to help you share information about the Handwriting Without Tears® program with parents. Use them for talking points or as handouts. Send them home in your students’ backpacks. Parents are delighted to learn about the curriculum and are excited to receive the letter formation charts so they know how they should help their students form letters at home.

Curriculum Overview by Grade

Here are great downloads you can use to introduce the Handwriting Without Tears curriculum to parents or colleagues. Simply select the grade level and print the downloaded PDF document.

Letter Formation Charts

  1. Print Capital Letters
  2. Print Lowercase Letters
  3. Numbers
  4. Cursive Capital Letters
  5. Cursive Lowercase Letters
  6. All Formation Charts

Teaching Guidelines by Grade

Here are the suggested teaching guidelines that are in the back of your teachers’ guides. Simply select the grade level and print the PDF download. Use them to help organize your daily and weekly plans. Be flexible. These are recommended guidelines; you know your students best and should alter your lessons to suit their needs.

Teaching Guidelines 2008 Edition

Teaching Guidelines Former Edition

Downloads from Frog Jump Gazette newsletter

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“HWT uses child-friendly, multisensory materials that make learning to write a fun and enjoyable experience for kids. My students experienced dramatic improvement in handwriting skills in a very short time.”

— Tara Everitt, OTR/L, Director of Therapy, Helping Hand Children’s Center, North Little Rock, AR