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The developmentally based, flexible, and engaging Handwriting Without Tears® program is the easiest, most effective way for children to develop good handwriting skills. It has been used successfully by more than 10 million children.

HWT's intuitive workbooks, engaging hands-on materials, and lively music inspire active learning. See why it works.

Celebrate National Handwriting Day with Mail to the Chief!

Join the national campaign to write letters of advice to our new President. We’ll be tracking submissions from across the country and hand-delivering all letters to the White House on January 23. 

  
  

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New: 2008 Editions & A Click Away

Use the code inside your new 2008 Teacher’s Guide to access A Click Away, the new online resource exclusively for users of 2008 editions.

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Our products include workbooks, teacher’s guides, hands-on materials, music, and paper for teaching handwriting to all students from Pre-K through 5th grades in only 10 minutes per day.

You can also hear music previews for our  "Get Set for School Sing Along" and "Rock Tap and Learn" CD's

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What People Are Saying About HWT

“My teachers are loving Handwriting Without Tears. Today, a kindergarten teacher told me that when her students come to school, they beg to do penmanship!”

— Stephanie Youngerman, Educational Services Supervisor – Language Arts

“Handwriting Without Tears is the only program I have seen that is comprehensive, developmentally appropriate, easy to teach and totally effective. The workshop was awesome!”

— Carole Sterry, Principal, Elizabeth Page Elementary School, Springfield, OR

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The Frog Jump Gazette e-newsletter is published three times a year and promotes handwriting strategies, tips, and tools to educators and parents who share a common interest in making handwriting easy to teach and easy to learn.

Read our CAPITAL Start e-newsletter

The CAPITAL Start is a new e-newsletters for new HWT users in their first year of using the curriculum. Published every couple of months, the CAPITAL Start combines teaching aids, activity downloads, time saving tips and strategies, training tools, and support to ease your way into classroom success.