These pages were created to support in-class and at-home handwriting practice. Included are child-friendly formation charts for practicing capital letters, lowercase letters, and numbers — so you’ll know the language and stroke sequence to use.

Download our Letter & Number Formation Charts to share valuable information about the Learning Without Tears programs with families or colleagues.

As students practice letter formation with Handwriting Without Tears, they reinforce the alphabetic principle. This practice ensures automatic recall of symbols for sounds, facilitating knowledge transfer as they progress. Modified from Scarborough, H.S. (2001).

Nov 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).

Handwriting Without Tears® (HWT) is a simple, developmentally based curriculum for printing. The program uses fun, multisensory techniques to teach letter formation and eliminate reversals of letters. Throughout the school year, we will “build” capital letters with wood pieces.

Handwriting Without Tears® (HWT) is a therapeutic curriculum that teaches pre-printing, printing, cursive and keyboarding skills to children of all abilities. Kids can move from one program to the next as skills grow.

Handwriting Without Tears cursive alphabet, letters formation charts, and transitions from HTW print to cursive.