Workshop Fee Information

Period Early* Regular
2009 $250 $285

* Sign up at least 30 days prior to workshop

Registration Information

Register online by finding a workshop below. Or mail or fax the
Workshop Registration Form
to:
Handwriting Without Tears
5310 S. 107th Ave.
Omaha, NE 68127
Fax: 402-492-2776

For more information call 402-492-2766 or email coordinator@hwtears.com.

We accept school purchase orders via mail and fax. You may cancel up to ten days prior to a workshop for a $35 cancellation fee.

Products included with registration: a $140 value

  • K–Letters and Numbers for Me
  • 1–My Printing Book
  • 2–Printing Power
  • 3–Cursive Handwriting
  • 4–Cursive Success
  • 5–Can-Do Cursive
  • Kindergarten Teacher’s Guide
  • 1st Grade Teacher’s Guide
  • 2nd Grade Teacher’s Guide
  • 3rd Grade Teacher’s Guide
  • 4th Grade Teacher’s Guide
  • Rock, Rap, Tap & Learn CD
  • Wood Pieces Set for Capital Letters
  • Mat for Wood Pieces
  • Slate Chalkboard
  • Blackboard with Double Lines
  • Canvas HWT Logo Bag

Kindergarten-5th Grade Workshop

2008 AEP Outstanding Achievement Award

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. We use a fun hands-on approach to develop good skills and teach correct letter formation.

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.

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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

Course 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.

Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc.

Handwriting Without Tears is an AOTA Approved Provider of continuing education.  AOTA does not endorse specific course content, products, or clinical procedures.