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When using the Letter Leaders handwriting skills workbook series, there are a variety of factors that influence how your young learners adopt fluid handwriting skills. Below are a series of suggestions based on my decades of experience teaching handwriting to pre-k...

If you are preparing to use the Letter Leaders Handwriting Workbook series to teach one or more children handwriting skills, here are some strategies to setup your young learners for success. Get started by purchasing the Letter Leaders handwriting workbook series and...

Stage One: New Learner Phase. “What Do I Need to Do?”  In this stage, children are still figuring out what lines, shapes, and letters are and how to identify them. Some students will have limited exposure to manipulating writing utensils, while others may have more...

The Letter Leaders program is based on two theories: the developmental theory and the motor-learning theory.   The Developmental Theory Current research in developmental theory indicates that handwriting is a complex motor activity where lower-level perceptual motor...

To understand the importance of fluid, legible, and automatic handwriting, try this quick activity: Grab something to write with and write your first name with your nondominant hand.  Writing your name is something you’ve been doing since childhood. When you use your...

The early learning years are filled with novelty and wonder. Children enter school and take on a new persona, a student, something separate from their home life and different entirely from anything they’ve been asked to be a part of.  They learn how to get along with...