Multiple Modalities Bring Learning to Life
Handwriting Without Tears engages multiple modalities to bring learning to life. Multisensory activities and manipulatives appeal to all learning styles and provide a hands-on approach to handwriting. We help students develop writing skills through explicit multisensory, play-based instruction. Students move, touch, feel, and manipulate real objects as they learn the correct habits and skills that are essential for fluid writing.
Go Hands-on with Multisensory Strategies
Introducing Mat Man
Make the transition to readiness seamless, with everyone’s favorite buildable friend—Mat Man. Made from Wood Pieces and the blue Mat, Mat Man embodies Handwriting Without Tears' unique approach to multisensory learning. Students learn crucial readiness skills, including size recognition, placement, and sequence skills.
Wet-Dry-Try
Wet-Dry-Try for iPad is a new experience that brings handwriting lessons to life with fun, game-based activities. Try it for free today with sample lessons on capitals, numbers, and lowercase letters. Wet-Dry-Try's game-based format mirrors the hands-on experience of writing on our Slate Chalkboard and Blackboard with Double Lines.
Manipulatives and Multisensory Strategies
Our time-tested, hands-on manipulatives are proven to stimulate and strengthen visual, tactile, kinesthetic, and auditory learning styles while improving lesson understanding and comprehension.
Digital Tools and Multisensory Strategies
Using the Interactive Digital Teaching Tool, teachers can show animations, music, and videos that support their direct handwriting instruction, including interactive letter formation charts.
See the Handwriting Without Tears Process
Aligned to ESSER and ESSA
Handwriting Without Tears is eligible for educational grants and funding. The program meets ESSA's Promising evidence criteria, with materials aligned to ESSER funding's allowable activities.
Popular Products & Courses
TESTIMONIALS
"The teachers are sold on the program because the children are engaged, and it works. It's a win-win!"
Melissa McHugh
Special Education Teacher
"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