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Learn and practice how to form lowercase letters!

From the makers of the Handwriting Success App, Letter FUNdamentals with Getty-Dubay® Italic is a fun way for young students to practice individual letters on your Apple or Android touchscreen device.

Pick a letter family, then choose a letter to practice. Provides lowercase and capital letter formation practice through four educational steps: following, tracing, tracing and drawing, then freehand drawing.

Getty-Dubay® Italic is a handwriting style that is fun to learn, easy to teach and natural to write.

The Letter FUNdamentals apps develop these skills: 

✔︎ Recognition of letter families based on similar shapes or width
✔︎ Motor memory of correct letter paths
✔︎ Knowledge of starting points, stroke sequence and stroke direction
✔︎ Fluency of letter formation

And use a progression of scaffolds:

✔︎ Following – watch the prompt trace the letter path
✔︎ Leading – move the prompt along the letter path
✔︎ Leading and drawing – move the prompt and draw along the letter path
✔︎ Free drawing – draw the letter path without a guide

Letter FUNdamentals I
Lowercase Precursive game

For ages 7 and up

iPhone & iPad  |  Android

Letter FUNdamentals II
Basic Italic Capitals game

For ages 7 and up

iPhone & iPad  |  Android

Announcing the NEW Handwriting Success™ Letter Tracing Web App!

If you’ve been using our DIY Worksheet Creator or any of our other Special Content, you will be pleased to know that we’ve installed a new tool for elementary-age students 7 and up.

Now your students can play the Italic Letter Tracing Game!

Develops these skills: 

• Recognition of lowercase letter families based on similar shapes, 
• Motor memory of correct letter paths, 
• Knowledge of starting points, stroke sequence and stroke direction, 
• Fluency of letter formation.

Uses a progression of scaffolds:

• Following – watch the prompt trace the letter path
• Leading – move the prompt along the letter path
• Leading + drawing – move the prompt and draw along the letter path
• Free drawing – draw the letter path without a guide

Have fun!

Yes! With HomeschoolPlanet®

Fitting handwriting instruction into your student’s day is so important. But you’ve got a lot on your plate, right? So why not make it easy with the official Getty-Dubay® Italic Handwriting Series Lesson Plans from HomeschoolPlanet®?

The official Getty-Dubay® Italic Handwriting Series Lesson Plans give you the recommended day-by-day educational sequence with specific page and line numbers, plus separate parent and student notes for each lesson. You can get the individual workbook lesson plans, or the bundle of all seven lessons plans for Books A-G. With a few clicks it will be integrated into your online HomeschoolPlanet® calendar, to view from anywhere and share with your students.

Separate lesson plans are available for the Getty-Dubay® Italic Handwriting Series App Edition.

Please note: The Lesson Plans are an optional supplement and do not contain curriculum content.

See HomeschoolPlanet® for more information and pricing.

Make cursive worksheets for your students with ease.

Welcome to our new DIY Worksheet Creator. We’ve been busy adding features to make it even easier to bring legibility and ease to your handwriting instruction:

• What-you-see-is-what-you-get editing.
• Your choice of solid or dashed-arrows styles.
• Choice of colors.
• Formatting options.
• Mix and match styles and colors on each line.
• Contrasting ruled lines.
• Supports dozens of languages.
• Special characters allowed — anything you can type will print!
• No watermark for registered users.

You asked for it, and we delivered! For even more flexibility, use the Getty-Dubay® downloadable computer Fonts — they join as you type! Try it…

The official Getty-Dubay® Italic Fonts have been 500 years in the making — so that you can make your worksheets in seconds.

We’ve created our very own join-as-you-type cursive handwriting font families that you can download for use at home or school. Visit our Fonts page to try a sample font for FREE.

The four Getty-Dubay® Italic Font families are modern descendants of the Italic handwriting style from the Italian Renaissance, when master scribes designed a fluid and graceful hand inspired by the proportions of the golden rectangle and ancient Roman capitals. 

The Italic style has been in constant use since then. In modern times, it has been celebrated by Alfred Fairbank, Lloyd Reynolds and many others including authors Barbara Getty and Inga Dubay in their Getty-Dubay® Italic method. The four Getty-Dubay® Italic monoline handwriting font families provide a replete resource to effectively model the highly-legible and beautiful Italic handwriting style.

All four font families come with the same scaffolding that the Getty-Dubay® Italic method books and apps provide (dashed lines, arrows and ruled lines) to allow for the time-honored learning process of copying and tracing by hand. The Getty-Dubay® Basic Italic and Smallcaps font families also come with starting dots for younger students. There are 72 fonts in all!

Research suggests that handwriting instruction plays a pivotal role in literacy and language skills. In other words, students write to learn. The Getty-Dubay® Italic fonts allow for the easy creation of supplemental handwriting materials to make handwriting an everyday part of classroom instruction.

Download your free Getty-Dubay Joined SAMPLE font, and purchase our entire collection of 72 fonts here.

Your iPad and stylus are now your tools for teaching handwriting.

All seven of the popular Getty-Dubay® Italic Handwriting Series books are now available in one app as ebooks that you can write in. Now available on the App Store and Google Play.

The Getty-Dubay Italic Handwriting Series Books A – G are the popular workbooks for students age 5 and up.

Use the instructional pages over and over by tracing and copying, then digitally erasing as needed. Practice to your heart’s content!

The app content takes you step-by-step through the print alphabet (basic italic) and numbers, then goes on to join these letters for flowing, legible cursive italic writing. Students can start with the book at their age level — they don’t need to complete the previous book to begin learning the italic style.

The apps are simple to use. Try before you buy with a free download of the app and sample books. Subscribe to the Getty-Dubay Italic Handwriting Series ebooks using the in-app bookstore. Turn pages, scroll, navigate and create bookmarks in the same way you would with an ebook.

The fun comes when students touch their stylus to the screen. Now they can select the color, width and opacity of the pen line. They trace and copy the handwriting models, reading the instructions and tips as they go. Then, they can erase their work and practice more by selecting the eraser icon to change the stylus function to erase mode, or by erasing the writing on the entire page at once. There are extra practice sheets at the end of the book, too. Students can document and share their work via the tablet native screenshot function.

These apps replace the need for the paperback workbook, which means you’re saving paper and the resources that would have gone into producing and shipping the product.

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