Learning Without Tears® creates developmentally appropriate strategies that instills a student's love of learning and helps all learners succeed. We believe that all students deserve equitable access to high-quality instruction and that children benefit from different modes of learning.
A–Z FOR MAT MAN® AND ME
And Phonics, Reading, and Me™
Letter learning is a multifaceted skill that includes knowledge of letter names, letter sounds, and letter forms. This integral skill, also known as alphabet knowledge, is crucial to early literacy and has been shown to be one of the strongest predictors of later literacy development.
A–Z for Mat Man and Me teaches alphabet knowledge and seamlessly prepares children for Set A of Phonics, Reading, and Me™, which builds high-utility phonics skills such as short vowels and consonant digraphs.
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Kindergarten is when children begin to see themselves as readers and writers. Learning Without Tears offers two programs that work hand in hand to help children excel. Combined, these supplemental foundational reading programs provide the tools children need to build early literacy skills.
HANDWRITING WITHOUT TEARS®
And Phonics, Reading, and Me
Phonics, Reading, and Me™ includes the trademark handwriting models that are core to the Handwriting Without Tears curriculum. Together, both programs deepen literacy learning, reinforcing and extending handwriting instruction and phonics skills.
New! Crosswalks Available for Download
In Phonics, Reading, and Me, children expand on the tactile written forms as they are practice phonics skills via encoding and writing in response to the texts they read. Together, these programs deepen literacy learning. Handwriting resources integrate seamlessly with literacy instruction in Phonics, Reading, and Me.
GET SET FOR SCHOOL®
And Phonics, Reading, and Me
The Get Set for School complete Pre-K program includes many hands-on learning products that can support and extend reading instruction in Phonics, Reading, and Me.
Sound Around Box
Practices - Phonemic awareness and phonics skills
Students use magnetic tiles and other manipulatives to help them identify beginning sounds, segment, and blend words.
Magnetic Lowercase and Blackboard Set
Practices - Decoding, encoding, and learning affixes
Students write on the board and manipulate the letters to make words and word parts.
Line It Up
Builds - Phonemic awareness, comprehension, and narrative skills
Students assemble a sequence of images to create scenes.