The Letter Leaders Learn to Handwrite Program
Letter Leaders is an excellent learn to handwrite program used to teach young children how to make their letters correctly. Children who use Letter Leaders learn prewriting skills, how to make capital and lower case letters correctly.
Why Use Letter Leaders to Teach Children How to Write
In recent years, learning how to form letters correctly, an important foundational skill, has seen a reduction in instructional time. However, the average student spends thirty to sixty percent of the school day engaged in writing activities. Even in today’s digitally dominated world, handwriting continues to be a primary way students demonstrate what they know. In many instances, written work is the means by which a teacher evaluates the child’s learning. Studies show that elementary-school-aged children with good handwriting have a greater ability to focus on spelling, reading, and sentence structure. In many instances, students with good penmanship receive better grades than those who struggle to handwrite well.
Letter Leaders is an evidence-based handwriting program that took over a decade to develop. Based on the principles of the motor learning and developmental theories, Letter Leaders is designed to teach students the proper way to form letters because those who do not need to focus their attention on how to form them correctly and neatly have more ability to focus on using handwriting as a form of written communication: to write notes and complete homework, book reports, and tests to the best of their ability.
With Letter Leaders, students are first taught four important prewriting skills. Once these prewriting skills are in place, students learn proper capital-letter formation. Finally, the program teachers lowercase-letter formation and beginning handwriting skills. Using Letter Leaders as little as five minutes per day, students will learn the correct way to form letters and develop a strong foundation for automatic handwriting. Teaching students the correct way to form letters does not need to be difficult. And with the right amount of practice and the use of the full Letter Leaders program, learning how to form letters correctly does not need to be difficult either.
Dr. Julie Tourigny
Julie Tourigny, OTD, OTR was awarded her doctorate by Boston University in 2013. Previously, she graduated cum laude from Boston University with a BS in occupational therapy. In 2003, she earned her Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Denver, with a concentration in statistics. Dr. Tourigny has dedicated her educational and professional careers to developing cutting-edge strategies and programs that promote the vital sensory, motor, and social skills young children need for success in school. Dr. Tourigny’s experience has convinced her that, with the right methods, all children have the capacity to be competent and successful students, regardless of socioeconomic, cognitive, or other challenges they may face. She developed the Letter Leaders program after more than a decade of work researching and utilizing evidence-based methods to teach handwriting to children with different learning styles.
Letter Leaders Handwriting Workbooks & Educational Programs
The Letter Leaders Learn to Write Program
Rather than individual worksheets, each Letter Leaders workbook is full color with pages that are content rich, distraction free and easy for teachers or parents to teach.
Our Learn to Handwrite Workbooks
Each Letter Leaders workbook is full color with pages that are content rich, distraction free and easy for teachers or parents to teach children how to write.
Teacher Training
We offer the following training: teacher in-services, in-classroom consultation and instruction, parent training, 3-hour introductory training to ensure proper use of the program, and continuing education courses for therapists and educators.
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Dr. Julie Tourigny
Office line: 303-333-4982
Fax: 877-506-0585
Email: jtourigny@letterleaders.com