Getting Started with Third Grade Samples

Getting Started with Third Grade Samples
Your third grade materials will help you teach cursive letter formations and connections using
multisensory strategies and activities that tie cursive handwriting practice to other language arts lessons.
Essential Third Grade Materials:
•Cursive Handwriting student workbook
•3rd Grade Cursive Teacher’s Guide
•Blackboard with Double Lines
•Little Chalk Bits
•Little Sponge Cubes
• Regular Double Line Notebook Paper (500 sheets)
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Teacher’s Guide
3rd Grade Cursive
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Multisensory Learning
Practice Cursive Using the Blackboard with Double Lines
Children learn correct letter placement to promote neat and fast cursive. Use the Blackboard for letter, word,
and name practice in cursive before transitioning to pencil and paper.
1. Gather materials.
4. Have the child trace the model with
a crumpled paper towel piece.
2. Demonstrate for the child.
5.Have the child pick up a Little Chalk
Bit and write over the dry model.
3.Have the child trace the model
with a wet Little Sponge Cube.
6.Noah is proud to write his name.
For video demonstration, see hwtears.com/videos or pp. 48-49 in the 3rd Grade Cursive Teacher’s Guide.
Tech Tools for Your Classroom
Digital Teaching Tools
Electronic Teacher’s Guides Available for Grades K–4
Letter & Number Formations
Our electronic teacher’s guides bring fun and engaging elements
of our curriculum to your computer. The interactive, easy-to-use format
reduces prep time and enriches your instruction.
Model the steps for writing letters in print and cursive by using this
web-based program on your interactive whiteboard or computer.
A+ Worksheet Maker
This classroom resource helps you integrate our unique font and
double lines into other activities like sentence writing, spelling,
vocabulary, and graphic organizers.
Workbook Activities
Cursive Handwriting teaches a clean, clear, vertical style of cursive that is easy to write and easy to read.
Children learn to write quickly and neatly using fun activities and lessons.
• Large step-by-step illustrated instructions
• Child-friendly consistent language
• Left-hand friendly design
• Generous spacing with room to write
• Simple, black and white pages with left-to-right illustrations avoid visual confusion
• Student self-check for letters, words, and sentences
Refer to the 3rd Grade Cursive Teacher’s Guide for details on teaching letters and activities. You’ll find helpful tips,
shortcuts, and lessons outlined by day and week. All you need is 10 minutes of practice a day!
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Tow Truck Letters always end with a tow.
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end with a tow
Check
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More Tech Tools for Your Classroom
Wet-Dry-Try® App
The Wet-Dry-Try App combines versions of the popular
Handwriting Without Tears Slate Chalkboard and Blackboard with
Double Lines activities. Students can accurately practice formations
based on our proven methodology and with instant feedback.
Keyboarding Without Tears™
This effective, game-based curriculum for students in grades K-5 fits
perfectly into the developmental progression of writing. It teaches
pre-keyboarding, keyboarding, general computer readiness, digital
citizenship, and digital literacy.
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mammals.
Check sentence
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Teacher & Classroom Resources
A library of teacher and classroom resources to support your teaching! Find them in our
Learning Lounge at hwtears.com/learninglounge
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Child Imitation:
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The Screener of Handwriting Proficiency
This free, easy-to-administer, whole-class assessment helps you assess classes and identify students who
are struggling with handwriting. The Screener is universal and can be used independently
or as part of an Rtl framework.
A Click Away
This special section of our website is just for teacher’s guide users. You will find downloads,
extra practice pages, and additional activities and lessons. Use these to supplement your
classroom instruction or to send home to families to foster a strong school-to-home connection.
Online Seminars
Free online seminars enhance your teaching through interactive exchanges with experts.
E-Newsletters
Free tips, resources, tools, and fun activities delivered to your inbox.
Video Lessons
Watch experts demonstrate activities, so you can easily master the lessons in your classroom.
Classroom Downloads
Send home in backpacks, use them as supplements in your classroom, or share them with colleagues.
Learning Standards
Handwriting & Keyboarding: Standards for the Production and Presentation of Writing
Both handwriting and keyboarding are skills students need to master to produce effective written work.
These standards define what needs to be taught and mastered in written production at each grade level.
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