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Welcome to Kindergarten: Handwriting without Tears HandoutWelcome to Kindergarten: Handwriting without Tears Handout
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Welcome to Kindergarten: Handwriting without Tears

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Do your kindergartners become frustrated when learning about handwriting? Use a guiding chart to show your learners the most efficient ways to form each lowercase letter. Additionally, it provides methods to remember how to write numbers.

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Concepts

handwriting, printing, printing numbers, printing lowercase

Additional Tags

classroom support

Instructional Ideas

  • Laminate the pages and have kids trace over each letter and number with a dry erase marker
  • Send the pages home for parents at Back-to-School Night to use when practicing handwriting with their kindergartners
  • Use in a language arts center or in small groups

Pros

  • Provides helpful hints and illustrations to demonstrate the simplest ways to write each letter
  • A good tool for beginning writers or for writers who could improve their penmenship

Cons

  • None

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