Handwriting Without Tears: Wet-Dry-Try Suite for Capitals, Numbers & Lowercase

Handwriting Without Tears: Wet-Dry-Try Suite for Capitals, Numbers & Lowercase is a very focused handwriting practice app based on the popular, long-standing program of the same name. The three-step system of tracing uppercase and lowercase letters and numbers on a virtual chalkboard with a "wet" sponge, a "dry" towel, and then tracing them with chalk keeps practice easy and consistent. Kids watch and listen to the coach complete the letter, step by step, then they erase the letter with a sponge, dry the letter with a towel, and try to trace the letter with chalk. Kids can repeat the same letter two more times with increasing difficulty to earn a colorful letter card, or skip to other letters. The pleasant-voiced writing coach provides crystal-clear verbal instructions and visual demonstrations, and the colorful letter cards give kids just enough reward without being distracting. Lowercase letters, including double lines kids must stay within on the board, are more difficult than uppercase letters or numbers.

Through using Handwriting Without Tears' skillful Wet-Dry-Try system and its letter groups -- organized by similar starting points and lines -- kids learn to recognize similarities in letter creation and focus on one new skill at a time. Kids also practice following verbal and visual directions as they put forth effort to master letter formation. As kids develop fine motor skills from doing the same motions three times in a row through three difficulty levels to earn a letter card, the app gently promotes the emotional skill of perseverance. If kids veer too far off course, the app requires them to restart that tracing stroke. You can extend the learning with other HWT products or get more ideas via videos on the website; kids can continue learning in other sensorial ways, such as by using real mini-chalkboards or fun, creative movement.