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A-Z for Mat Man and Me: Practice for Developing Readers
Providing two practice pages for each letter and coordinating with its Reader, this workbook includes handwriting practice and letter sound reinforcement. It also prompts students to investigate story elements such as sequence of events, setting, and characters. In this Developing workbook drawings and sentence writing activities are used. These lessons require more handwriting, and the student is often encouraged to write sentences in both the letter sound reinforcement and in the story elements investigations. Drawing, however, is still an important element in addressing the questions raised.
By contrast, the Emerging workbook answers/response are largely drawings. Line spacing in the Developing book is 3/16". Both uppercase and lowercase printing is required.
Your developing readers will get meaningful practice in the pages of these books, aligned to the instruction in the Student Letter Books-- suitable for students who know their letters and are mastering letter-sounds.
I Know My Numbers is a set of 10 small horizontal booklets (14 pgs ea), each centered on a number 1-10 that a student methodically works through as they practice writing and understanding these numbers. They are full of charming black and white illustrations and clear instruction. Little Chalk Bits is a good sized box (about 6.5"x 4"x 2) full of 1 pieces of thin (1cm) white chalk. This will go a long way! Little Sponge Cubes is a set of 100 (50 yellow/50 blue) small cubes (1cm) of kitchen sponge. Just right for tiny fingers to erase with!
This is a wonderful introduction to the world of handwriting for the preschool child.We offer several packages with both the most essential and also with recommended items for the program to fit your budget.
A follow up book to preschool is Kick Start Kindergarten, which reviews upper and lowercase letters, or the Kindergarten program, Letters and Numbers for Me.
Mat Man® is the cute and clever mascot that shows up repeatedly in the elementary material from Handwriting Without Tears. Built from the program's letter strokes with its "mat" for a body, Mat Man's limbs and head look unsurprisingly like the Capital Wood Pieces®. His happily whimsical facial expressions communicate over-and-over again that learning – particularly learning to read and write – is FUN! These Mat Man® and Me literacy materials from HWOT are just the latest example.
Components include Mat Man® and the Great Alphabet Parade (a brightly colorful, read-aloud alphabet book), the Individual Reader Set (26 beginning readers with Family Guide), a Teacher Guide, and two practice workbooks which are coordinated with the HWOT kindergarten and first grade levels – Practice for Emerging Readers and Practice for Developing Readers. These practice workbooks provide pages that correlate to each Reader. In addition, there are packages that include combinations of these components.
Completely interconnected with the HWOT program, Readers incorporate the handwriting style in terms of letter presentation and the Practice Workbooks provide letter stroke instruction and HWOT's distinctive writing lines. The Emerging Readers workbook sports the orange color associated with the kindergarten program, while Developing Readers has the first-grade color of yellow. The two workbooks are similar to each other with letter, word, and/or sentence copywork plus an Understanding the Story segment for each book. These segments cover events, setting, and characters from the story. The Teacher Guide provides lesson plans that weave the components together emphasizing letter learning and comprehension (meaning making).
This series is an engaging introduction to letters and letter sounds. Although coordinated with both the Kindergarten and First Grade level of HWOT, you would most likely use it with one OR the other level. Unless your student needed the content repetition, you would not use them sequentially. ~ Janice
Product Format: | Paperback |
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Brand: | Learning Without Tears |
Grades: | PK-1 |
ISBN: | 9781954728424 |
Length in Inches: | 10.875 |
Width in Inches: | 8.375 |
Height in Inches: | 0.1875 |
Weight in Pounds: | 0.45 |