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Get students on track for kindergarten readiness the simple way. Get Set for School expands early learning possibilities. Teachers are supported with guided lessons as students experience a hands-on curriculum that engages their minds.
- Scaffolded instructional support
- Expands early learning possibilities
- Developmentally appropriate sequencing
- Multisensory activities that engage young minds
- Assessments to guide instruction
- Time-tested manipulatives for hands-on learning
- Online platform connects teachers, students, and families
- Seamless integration of themes across all learning domains
- Supplemental resource scales lessons for 3-year-old learners
Manage and simply teach lessons from Get Set for School with the Pre-K Interactive Teaching Tool: a one-stop digital teaching platform. Students also get a series of developmentally appropriate apps built for exploration, discovery, and creative expression. These experiences reinforce pre-academic readiness and strengthen learning experiences at home.
Use the Learning and Play Resource for 3-Year-Olds as an extension to the Get Set for School complete curriculum, and find suggestions on how to scale multisensory activities in a developmentally appropriate way for younger learners.
Aligned to ESSER and ESSA
Get Set for School is eligible for educational grants and funding. The program meets ESSA's Demonstrates a Rationale evidence criteria, with materials aligned to ESSER funding's allowable activities.
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The intertwined connections to real world, real life and all the learning modalities facilitate learner success.
Vanessa Brown, B.A., M.Ed., Retired Assistant Principal and ELA Coordinator
With the implementation of the teacher’s guide, activity books and manipulatives, Pre-K teachers have the tools they need to successfully prepare young children for kindergarten.
Schronda McKnight-Burns M. Ed., Assistant Director of Early Childhood Education
The active teaching really brings the workbook to life by adding in different interactive learning strategies and activities on each page.
Lanor Payne, Ph.D, Director of Early Childhood
Our students have used Keyboarding Without Tears for years. This program goes beyond nurturing students’ typing skills. It gives them the confidence with technology they need to truly succeed today.
Mary Toomey, Assistant Superintendent
Pacing Guide Downloads
Use our workbooks and literacy programs with your Pre-K–2 students this summer, or any time, with these FREE age- and grade-appropriate learning plans.
Choose from the following:
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4- or 6-week versions of our time-tested, 23-week Handwriting Without Tears® teaching guidelines
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4- or 6-week versions of A–Z for Mat Man® and Me, a supplemental Pre-K−1 program that build alphabets knowledge by integrating phonics with connected text
Each of these programs comes with implementation videos, additional free materials, and step-by-step instructions to help you guide you.
Select your packs(s) to download below:
Pre-Kindergarten - My First School Book Set
Transitional Kindergarten - Kick Start Kindergarten
Kindergarten - Letters and Numbers For Me
1st Grade – Print: My Printing Book
2nd Grade – Cursive: Cursive Kickoff
A-Z Mat Man Summer Pacing Guide - Emerging Readers
A-Z Mat Man Summer Pacing Guide - Developing Readers
Phonics, Reading, and Me™ Set A - 4 Week Pacing Guide
Phonics, Reading, and Me™ Set B - 4 Week Pacing Guide
Phonics, Reading, and Me™ Set C - 4 Week Pacing Guide
ELL Strategy Downloads
Handwriting Without Tears was developed to meet the needs of all learners, including English Language Learners (ELLs).
Our award-winning, research-based approach supports students with different learning styles, abilities, and backgrounds. To provide differentiated instruction for diverse learners and a seamless transition into any classroom setting, our ELL strategies are integrated into our curriculum.
Learn more about how to implement our ELL handwriting strategies in your classroom and check out our ELL handwriting resources.
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Through 40 years of experience, Handwriting Without Tears has evolved to meet educator needs and to always provide the best possible student outcomes. Explore new and improved features and benefits.
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Setting Students Up for Success
We lead young students to success through a pathway to early literacy that embraces the whole child. Students strengthen essential fine and gross motor skills through hands-on materials, learn through purposeful play, and explore language through connected text.
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Get Set For School
A-Z for Mat Man and Me
To Help Students Read,
Start with Handwriting
Handwriting is a foundational skill that leads students to automatic word recognition. Through time-tested methods of letter formation, students embark on the pathway to reading and writing excellence while connecting letters to sound and fortifying the alphabetic principle.
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Readiness & Writing
A-Z for Mat Man and Me
Building Writers
Keyboarding Without Tears
Connecting Sounds and Letters
When students make connections between sounds and letters, the pathway to reading unfolds before them. We nurture these connections sequentially and systematically, based on the science of reading, helping students acquire the range of skills they need to become proficient readers.
Discover our Phonics Programs…
Handwriting Without Tears
A-Z for Mat Man and Me
Phonics, Reading, and Me
Inspire, Empower, and Thrive
Learning Without Tears helps every educator find joy in teaching by building confidence and ensuring competence. Our professional learning is designed to INSPIRE teachers to try something new, EMPOWER their growth, and fuel them and the students they serve to THRIVE.
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The Dedicated Solution for Administrators, Educators, and Parents. Through 40 years of experience, we have evolved handwriting to meet educator needs and to always provide the best student outcomes possible.
- Designed by Educators
- Proven Effective by Research
- Integrates with Any Literacy Curricula
- Engaging Multi-Sensory Activities
- Powerful Digital Tools
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"The intertwined connections to real world, real life and all the learning modalities facilitate learner success."
"With the implementation of the teacher’s guide, activity books and manipulatives, Pre-K teachers have the tools they need to successfully prepare young children for kindergarten."
"The active teaching really brings the workbook to life by adding in different interactive learning strategies and activities on each page."
"Our students have used Keyboarding Without Tears for years. This program goes beyond nurturing students' typing skills. It gives them the confidence with technology they need to truly succeed today."
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