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Writing/Classroom Tools

This section offers a varied but selected grouping of items for developing and improving the classroom skills of writing and cutting. There are positional aides, special and unique pens, pencils, grips, crayons, markers, writing papers, instructional materials and fun activity-based itmes!

Dot-to-Dot Books
Basic fun for basic skills! Try it the old fashioned way with a pencil or with something new! Try colored pencils for rainbow work, Wikki Stix for extra finger work, erasable or color changing markers for precise pencil control. Fun way to reinforce number, letter and directionality skills.

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Dot-to-Dot Book 1-10 $2.95 W1805 Quantity   
Dot-to-Dot Book 1-30 $2.95 W1806 Quantity   
Dot-to-Dot Books 1-50 $2.95 W1823 Quantity   
Dot-to-Dot Books 1-100+ W1824 $4.50 W1824 Quantity   
Dot-to-Dot Book A-Z $3.50 W1807 Quantity   
Follow the Arrow W1808 $2.95 W1808 Quantity   
Mazes for Ages 4-6
$2.95
W9752
Over 30 beautifully illustrated, full color pages of mazes in this 8 ½ x 11-inch workbook. Work in crayon, pencil or with fingertip to get all the characters where they have to go. Solving mazes is a fun, motivating way to get preschoolers and kindergarten age children to work on developing visual motor control, fine motor skills, attention to detail, and thinking skills. These high interest, appealingly drawn scenes are also chock full of opportunities for expanding receptive and expressive language.

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Kids Coloring Book
$3.95
W1841
Typical coloring book pictures are made simple and cute to attract young artists. This book however contains 24 more detailed, exciting and lively pictures to interest and motivate a slightly older artist. Use crayons, markers, colored pencils; all provide a workout for the hands. Also try tracing the pictures or just parts of the pictures using our tracing paper pad.

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TV Teacher
TV Teacher’s Alphabet Beats are fun, educational videos designed to help all children, but especially those with strong visual systems, learn to write the alphabet. In these completely unique videos, Miss Marnie demonstrates the actual writing sequence for a letter both on the board and on a sheet of paper. Letter formation is always paired with catchy rhythmic chants that parallel the actual writing strokes. But more than just writing, each letter is its own 5 minute chapter and includes the writing demonstrations/exercises along with 8-10 vocabulary words and basic learning concepts, i.e. body parts, spatial concepts, animals, social and sensory interactions, etc. The great visuals and quality production, along with the strong auditory and visual repetition, combine to make this a fun, engaging and highly effective means for teaching handwriting!

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TV Teacher - Lower Case DVD $35.00 W4989 Quantity   
TV Teacher - Upper Case DVD $35.00 W2987 Quantity   
TV Teacher Set- upper & lower case DVD $65.00 W7899 Quantity   
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Alpha Beats Workbooks
Visually simple, easy to understand workbooks give the child a special and specific place to practice their letters. At the bottom of each letter page is printed the chant used to cue the students. Blank pages available for copying and making your own practice sheets.

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Alpha Beats - Lower Case Workbook $5.95 W3873 Quantity   
Alpha Beats - Upper Case Workbook $5.95 W3872 Quantity   
Alpha Beats Set - Upper & Lower Case Workbook $9.95 W1789 Quantity   
Greatest Dot-to-Dot Books
These 48 page full size booklets take Dot-to-Dot designs to the next level. More fun than most, it is impossible to identify the incredibly detailed drawings until you connect the last few dots. For children or adults, the numbers go higher then most puzzles. Books also contain many creative variations of dot-to-dot never seen before. Some of these are called Stars, Field of Dots, Sets and Crazy Dots. Interesting and challenging way to work on numbering skills, visual-motor coordination, attending and visual perception.

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Greatest Dot-to-Dot Book 3 $6.95 W0025 Quantity   
Greatest Dot-to-Dot Book 4 $6.95 W0024 Quantity   
Greatest Dot-to-Dot Book Set $12.95 W0023 Quantity   
Writing Boards
A terrific way to engage children in practicing pencil grasp and pencil control for improved grapho- motor skills. Three sets of progressively more demanding boards are available. Each set comes with 4 (38”x7”) semi-rigid PVC boards, printed with either one or two graphic patterns. Use a wet or dry erase marker to follow the clearly defined tracks without going over the boarder. Comes with 6 holes for ease in hanging or use the enclosed sticky backed magnet pieces. Boards can be curled for ease in transport or storage. Available in three levels: Level 1 – Green: One wide track (1” width) per board reinforcing straight, curved, wavy and angled lines. Level 2 – Blue: Two tracks (1/2” width) per board with increasingly complex lines and loops. Level 3 – Orange: Two tracks per board, of varying width, with down strokes and some correspondence to cursive letters. One board of dots to create your own exercises.

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Writing Boards - Level 1 – Green $39.95 W4677 Quantity   
Writing Boards - Level 2 – Blue $39.95 W4676 Quantity   
Writing Boards - Level 3 – Orange $39.95 W4675 Quantity   
Writing Boards - Complete Set: All 3 Levels $104.95 W4679 Quantity   
How to Draw...
These books are fun and motivating ways to entice children to practice pencil control and visual motor skills. Each picture is broken down into 6 simple step by step drawings assuring a successful end result. The black & white line drawings are also great for tracing and coloring.

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How To Draw 101 Monsters $4.95 W3174 Quantity   
How to Draw 101 Things That Go $4.95 W3176 Quantity   
How to Draw 101 Animals $4.95 W3178 Quantity   
How to Draw 3 bookset $12.95 W3179 Quantity   
String Along Kit or Board
It’s a frustration-free stitching, lacing, pattern following wonder! Unique design board, 18 colorful laces and kid-safe punch pen invite free play or copy the 16 full color patterns.Punch pen uses similar grasp and movement patterns as a pencil, so visual motor control is practiced and design copy skills, counting and spatial relations are reinforced. A fun, re-usable, “picture perfect” product for everyone. The "String Along Board" is a great add-on for an extra board and laces. Ideal for groups or pairs.

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String Along Kit $17.95 W3515 Quantity   
String Along Board (extra board, pen and 18 laces) $10.95 W3517 Quantity   
Pull the String
$13.95
W8084
This very unique play board lets you write and draw using a pen threaded with colorful strings. Thread the pen and push the tip into one of the holes in the board. When you lift the pen the string will stay in the board. Repeat this action to create an endless variety of colored lines and shapes. If you make a mistake or want to start again, simply pull the string for a clean slate. Similar to our “String Along,” but more resistive heavy duty board for added hand and finger strengthening. Comes with one board and pen, 15 design cards and 8 strings. A fun motivating way to work our design copy, spatial awareness and pencil control.

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Go N Doodle
$20.95
W2296
This sturdy board with travel handle lets you turn ordinary water into works of art, but only temporary ones? Fill the included writing implement with water and it becomes a felt tipped marker when used on the board’s special surface. Draw, write, create, do math, practice spelling words.. whatever! While that side is evaporating, simply flip board over and you are ready to go again! A simply mesmerizing way to get kids to practice their writing and exercise their creative expressions. Perfect while driving in the car, at restaurants, Dr.’s offices or at home!

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Alpha-Dough Lower Case Letters
$24.95
W1579
A fun, easy hands-on way to reinforce letter recogniton, proper formation and letter sound relationships. Set comes with 3 tubs (red, yellow & blue) of scented dough, A-Z letter wipe off cards, 4 letter activity cards and a washable crayon. Lengths of dough are rolled and pressed to cover the large blue letter on each card. Other side of card is for letter writing practice and drawing. A great, multi-sensory product that also delivers a hand/finger workout and lots of spontaneous language.

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Draw Write Now Books
These books contains a unique collection of beginning drawing lessons and text for practicing handwriting. Developed by a teacher in response to her second grade students frustration with their drawing efforts and repetitive handwriting drills. The children are taught to see complex objects as combinations of simple shapes. Fine motor skills improve and images become more easily analyzed. Language skills are facilitated as pictures and stories are discussed. As technical skills improve so does self-confidence and creativity. There are 21 lessons in each 64 page book. Most pictures are broken down into 6 steps with the new lines highlighted.

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Draw Write Now- On the Farm $12.95 W5120 Quantity   
Draw Write Now - Animals & Habitat $12.95 W5152 Quantity   
Fine Motor Development Kit
By Mary Benbow, OTR & Zaner-Bloser
Mary Benbow has extensively published and lectured on the hand and development of fine motor skills and writing. She now has written a teachers guide. It includes a functional overview of the hand; what to look for and why it’s important and 25 different activities to do to help develop weak areas. And best of all, all the materials needed for the activities are included - all in one convenient kit!

Easy to understand, simple to do activities that really can make a difference in hand development and handwriting! Great for a learning “center” in the classroom or as a handwriting treatment program. It’s also ideal for parents to use as a hand development home program.

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Fine Motor Development Kit -Teachers Book Only $17.95 W5562 Quantity   
Fine Motor Development Kit -Teachers Book & Materials $101.95 W5561 Quantity   
Pattern Rubbing Plates
$9.95
W6268
Kids love to see the patterns appear as if by magic, as they rub crayon, colored pencil, chalk or regular pencil over the textured plates. Each 6”x6” plate is embossed on both sides. So you get 8 totally different designs. While rubbing, tactile and proprioceptive input is increased through the hand. Endurance for arm and hand use and different grasping patterns are also encouraged.

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Maze Books
Most children find mazes interesting and entertaining and these convenient little books offer an assortment. The beginners book has simplier designs and wider spaces, making it a great prewriting activity. The older child book has more complex designs, narrower paths and lots of twists and turns. Ideal for planning, sequencing, and pencil control.

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Maze Book- My First Mazes $2.95 W1821 Quantity   
Maze Book - Older Child $3.50 W1821 Quantity   
Tac-On Dry Erase Board
$19.95
W6502
Amazing new technology puts this 23”x18” dry erase board wherever you want it without tape, tacks, or putty. Simply press it on the wall, window, fridge, almost anywhere and you have an instant vertical writing/drawing surface. Leave it up or take it with you to use at your next location. Will not damage surfaces or leave residue. Cleans with mild soap and water to rejuvenate the adhesive.

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Loops and Other Groups Cursive Handwriting Program
By Mary Benbow, MS, OTR\L
A wonderfully easy and imaginative program for teaching students from 2nd grade through high school, cursive handwriting. Especially effective for students with learning disabilities and perceptual delays.

Letters are taught in groups that share common movement patterns. This taps into the kinesthetic system, helping students “feel” and visualize the letter formations. Easy to remember motor and auditory cues aide students in learning the letters.

Two levels of booklets available. Level 1: is used with students during their first year of cursive writing instruction. Level 2: reviews lower case letters and concentrates on the practice of upper case letters.

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Level 1 (Booklet 10 pk) Loops and Other Groups $55.00 W2823 Quantity   
Level 2 (booklet 10 pk) Loops and Other Groups $55.00 W2829 Quantity   
Loops and Other Groups Cursive Handwriting- Complete Set $64.95 W2820 Quantity   
Handwriting Fontware Programs
If you’re involved in teaching children to write, you need this software! Specifically developed to make life easier and therefore happier.

The fontware programs allow you to use modern technology to produce customized and individualized writing worksheets. You never again have to make by hand, “dotted” outlines of words or letters. You are free to expand your spelling lists and writing lesson plans beyond workbooks into the classroom curriculum.

Follow directiions in the user friendly guide to print worksheets in manuscript or cursive writing with dotted or outlined letters, linked or unlinked letters, with rule line or without, in a variety of sizes. Once created, save your worksheets for reprint or modifications at another time.

Available in two packages:
Original with D’Nealian and Zaner Bloser font styles or the newest with “Loops and Other Groups” and “Handwriting Without Tears®” fonts.

Each package also comes with fingerspelling, morse cade, emo-face font styles for designing supplemental learning activities.

Purchase a Site License to allow every computer at one school to have access to the program. Additional site licenses required for additional schools; includes 10 User guides.

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DN & ZB/Single User (win/mac cd) $49.95 W7030 Quantity   
Loops & HWT/Single User (win/mac cd) $49.95 W7050 Quantity   
DN & ZB/Site License (win/mac cd) $300.00 W7032 Quantity   
Loops & HWT/Site License (win/mac cd) $300.00 W7052 Quantity   
Handwriting Without Tears - Print Workbooks and Guides
Developed by Jan Olson, OTR this program is the culmination of years of research and experience into the acquisition of handwriting and how best and most simply to teach this complex skill to children of all ages and abilities. Using a multi-sensory approach with tactile, kinesthetic, auditory, positional and spatial cues as well as manipulatives and special 2-line paper to simplify letter placement on the line, HWT is an easy to use and highly successful program.

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Letters and Numbers for Me Workbook (Grade K) $8.50 W1598