Two-Day Combination Workshop

Attend Both Workshop Days and Save!

Two-day workshops available in more than 100 cities! Register for both the Pre-K and Kindergarten-5th Grade workshops and get an additional discount and a certificate of attendance for 10.25 hours.

The award-winning Get Set for School™ Pre-K program uses lively music and playful activities to help young children build a solid foundation for school success. The Get Set for School™ Pre-K workshop is an introductory level class.

This upbeat workshop introduces a readiness curriculum full of developmentally appropriate activities that teach children about letters, body awareness, numbers, sequencing, and sharing in a fun, engaging, and informal manner.

The Handwriting Without Tears® Kindergarten-5th Grade workshop provides dynamic instruction in the teaching methodology from kindergarten through cursive. The Kindergarten-5th Grade workshop is an intermediate level class.

Our comprehensive, easy-to-use curriculum uses engaging multi-sensory techniques and research-based methods to make handwriting a natural and automatic skill for children of all ages and abilities.

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Get Set for School™ Pre-K Workshop Objectives

At the end of the HWT Pre-K Workshop, attendees will be able to:

• Plan new activities to teach body awareness and other school readiness skills
• Understand how to use music to prepare children for school
• Identify developmental stages in writing readiness
• Understand how to use multisensory, hands-on manipulatives to prepare children for handwriting
• Teach a correct and effective grip and other fine motor skills
• Teach counting, drawing, shape recognition, and letter/number formations to children at the Pre-K level

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Get Set for School™ Pre-K Workshop Outline

2:00 p.m.	Registration
2:30 p.m.	Readiness in Preschools: Understanding the HWT Music Component for Readiness and Socialization/Organization Activities
3:00 p.m.	Body Awareness: Song to Teach Body Parts
3:15 p.m.	Introducing HWT Wood Pieces in Preschool: Size, Shape and Position Concepts, Wood Piece Activities for an Entire Class, Movement and Imitation with Big Lines, Using Capital Letter Cards for Wood Pieces
3:45 p.m.	Body Awareness Continued: More songs to teach Body Parts, Mat Man™ Activity, Beginning Drawing Skills
4:00 p.m.	Break: Snack and beverage served.
4:15 p.m.	Letter Play and Crayon/Pencil Skills: Fine Motor Play using Multisensory Activities (Roll–A–Dough Letters™, Stamp and See Screen™), Developmental Stages in Handwriting Readiness, Educating Others, Handedness, Tool Use in Preschool, When and How to Teach Grip, Coloring Skills
4:45 p.m.	Tracing Strokes, Shapes, Letters, and Numbers: Developmental Teaching Method and Sequence, Using More Multisensory activities, Strategies for Language Development, Lowercase Letter Recognition Using a Unique Crayon Stroke, Numbers: Singing and Counting
5:15 p.m.	Check Readiness
6:00 p.m.	Certificate of Attendance for 3.25 Contact Hours. Adjourn Handwriting Without Tears is an AOTA Approved Provider of continuing education.  AOTA does not endorse specific course content, products, or clinical procedures.

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Kindergarten-5th Grade Workshop Objectives

At the end of the HWT Kindergarten-5th Grade Workshop, attendees will be able to:

• Understand the components of the handwriting process
• Plan new activities to develop fine motor skills and posture for writing
• Understand the developmental sequence involved in handwriting
• Plan handwriting instruction using multisensory techniques
• Identify appropriate transition time from printing to cursive
• Identify common handwriting problem

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Kindergarten-5th Grade Workshop Outline

8:00 a.m.	Registration: Coffee and Pastries.
8:30 a.m.	The Handwriting Process: 8 Key Skills, Integration with Language Arts, Scope and Sequence of Printing, Stages of Learning, Instructional Approach
9:00 a.m.	Readiness: Size, Shape and Position Concepts, Directionality, Building Capital Letters, Language for Letters, Forming Good Habits
10:00 a.m.	Getting Started: Posture, Paper & Pencil Skills, Grasping Grip, Looking out for Lefties, Unique Workbook Features
10:30 a.m.	Break
10:45 a.m.	Multisensory Activities: Music and Movement, Wet-Dry-Try, Door Tracing, Imaginary Writing, Letter Sizes and Places, Mystery Letters
11:15 a.m.	Printing Capitals and Numbers: Teaching Strategies, Learn and Check, Preventing or Correcting Reversals, Looking out for Lefties, Grasping Grip
12:00 p.m.	Lunch on Your Own
1:00 p.m.	Printing Lowercase Letters: Teaching Method and Sequence, Promoting Neatness, Size Considerations, Word and Sentence Skills, Line Generalization, Teaching Guidelines
2:30 p.m.	Break: Snack and beverage
2:45 p.m.	Cursive Writing: Cursive Style, Scope and Sequence, Workbook Designs, Understanding Connections, Multisensory lessons, Building Fluency with Review and Mastery, Intervention Strategies
4:45 p.m.	Remediation Strategies, Teaching Guidelines, Q&A
5:00 p.m.	Certificates of Attendance for 7 Contact Hours. Adjourn. Handwriting Without Tears is an AOTA Approved Provider of continuing education.  AOTA does not endorse specific course content, products, or clinical procedures.