PREREQUISITE
None
WORKSHOP HOURS
2
APPROPRIATE AUDIENCE
Kindergarten to Grade 1 general education (Tier 1, whole-class and small-group)
Kindergarten to Grade 5 special education, intervention, resource (Tier 2, 3)
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Handwriting: Lessons for Print’s™ methods and multimodal techniques support students in developing letter formation automaticity through a multisensory, systematic, structured, sequential, direct-instruction teaching approach.
PARTICIPANTS LEARN
This scientific research-based program includes learning strategies as detailed by the science of reading, occupational therapy, and early childhood development guidelines.
- Prewriting skills development, including ideal posture and paper position
- Letter formation
- Lowercase and capital letter instruction based on formation groups (starting point and initial stroke)
- Incorporates the sound-symbol connection through multisensory learning
- Foundational sentence composition, grammar, and connected-text composition