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It’s so easy and natural to have good handwriting, even with a stylus.

It’s the first complete handwriting instruction app made for adults who write with a stylus: the Getty-Dubay Handwriting Success App for iPad or Android tablet.

The Getty-Dubay
Handwriting Success App

Now available

Available on the App Store and Google Play

WRITE NOW: the Getty-Dubay® Program for Handwriting Success is our popular handwriting workbook for adults, and this app brings it to your tablet so you can use it just like a book — only better. You’ll be able to trace and copy over and over. Practice to your heart’s content. Touch up your handwriting wherever your are, when it is convenient, on your iPad, Chromebook, Pixel Slate or Android tablet. (Minimum tablet width: 7.5 inches.)

This is not your grandparents’ handwriting.  For over 40 years, the authors Barbara Getty and Inga Dubay have been teaching legible, handsome handwriting without the loops and curlicues of conventional cursive.

It’s real handwriting, for real life.

Use your stylus with confidence and ease to produce notes that you feel good about sharing, and that you, your colleagues & friends (and your handwriting recognition software) can read.

See our successful Kickstarter campaign!

Available at the App Store and Google Play

Learn more about Getty-Dubay Handwriting Success App.

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An old favorite gets a new look. Our Instruction Manual form the Getty-Dubay® Italic Handwriting Series has a new cover image, and a new lay-flat binding style. Teachers and parents will appreciate the new type of perfect binding that allows the book to remain open on a desk for easy reference.

The other Books A-G in the Series have cover images taken by photographer Tony Midson, highlighting scenes from nature in Oregon, the authors’ home state. The new Instruction Manual cover image continues this aesthetic, with a view from an old barn near Dufur, Oregon looking North across the Columbia river gorge to nearby Washington.

Although the Getty-Dubay® Italic Handwriting Series Books A-G are complete and ready to use in the classroom or homeschool, either as a set or individually, the Instruction Manual provides many additional resources.

In it you’ll find:

• a background philosophy of italic handwriting
• classroom management plans
• detailed notes for teachers for each of the seven workbooks A – G
• best practices for letter formation
• assessment tools and forms
• scope and sequence
• tips on reading conventional looped cursive
• additional student activities
• and so much more!

Some parents wonder if they need to buy the Instruction Manual for their homeschool. No, it is not necessary have the Instruction Manual in addition to the workbooks in order to teach Getty-Dubay® Italic. But, if you do buy it, you’ll be happy you did!

The Instruction Manual is included in the complete series set that contains all the Getty-Dubay® Italic Handwriting Series books and two desk strips for $95.00.

Ten of our popular Getty-Dubay Italic books in the USA are now printed on demand as International Editions distributed to over 150 countries around the globe, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Italy, Poland, Russia, South Korea, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

WRITE NOW,  Italic Letters and our eight Italic Handwriting Series books are now available internationally via Lulu.com for retail orders and via Ingram for wholesale.

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For schools, stores and resellers around the globe

For retail orders in over 150 countries

These International Editions have identical content to the editions already available in the USA, but our International Editions are perfect bound with a lighter interior paper weight. For this reason, Italic Letters, WRITE NOW and Getty-Dubay Italic Handwriting Series Book G contain several single-sided pages to allow for the use of ink pens. The Italic Handwriting Series International Edition also accommodates for both British and American spellings of some words.

Just as our USA editions are printed on environmentally-friendly paper, our International Edition books printed at Lulu utilize FSC-certified paper sources.

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For those who wish to purchase our supplementary materials, or our book Getty-Dubay Italic Calligraphy: for School & Home, please contact our USA distributor Allport Editions. (Please be aware that overseas shipping rates from the USA are higher for these items.)

We’ve just launched a new resource tool: an online do-it-yourself worksheet creation tool for joined letters. As far as we know, it is the first of it’s kind — and it’s free! You can use it to extend the life of your Getty-Dubay Italic book to suit your needs. Teachers and students can create PDF worksheets for both basic italic and cursive italic practice. Use it for informal acceleration, to support other curricula (e.g., via vocabulary lists, definitions, poetry, etc.), and to personalize your handwriting practice.

Type in your text. “A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” becomes…

a basic italic practice model

or a cursive italic practice model.

How is this different from the Blackline Masters CD-ROM? The Blackline Masters CD-ROM provides hundreds of additional practice sheets that target specific letters or joins. Each instruction page in the Getty-Dubay Italic Handwriting Series Books A – G has additional practice sheets on the Blackline Masters CD-ROM that provide writing cues such as stroke sequence and starting point. With the DIY Worksheets, you get to choose your own text, but stroke sequence and starting point are not displayed. To use a musical analogy, the Blackline Masters CD-ROM is your scale book and the DIY Worksheets can be your etudes.

Here’s how it works:

(1) Go to our teacher resource page to register and login in using your Getty-Dubay Italic book UPC. If you don’t own a Getty-Dubay Italic book, no problem — you can sign up for a free trial.

(2) Select the size of the writing you want to practice: 9mm lines for larger letters (as in the Getty-Dubay Italic Handwriting Series Books B and C), or 5mm lines for smaller writing (as in Books D through G and Write Now). 

(3) Enter the text you want to see on each line of your worksheet.  Each line you type will show up on your worksheet with a practice line after it. (In other words, your text entries are on odd-numbered lines). Under each text box, select if you want that text to appear as basic italic or cursive italic.

(4) When you’re done entering the text, click “Submit” at the bottom of the entry page. In a few moments, your practice sheet will appear in the same window. Just print it out or download as you would any other web PDF.

The joins represented on the cursive italic DIY Worksheet are the standard Getty-Dubay Italic joins. But there are options! On the blank lines of the worksheet, please practice any of the numerous cursive italic join options that you prefer. (See your Getty-Dubay Italic book for details).

Tips: If you didn’t get the result you wanted, use your web browser’s “back” button to make changes to your text and try again. If you want to produce many copies of a single DIY Worksheet for a classroom, print out the master copy and make duplicates from that (the watermark will fade away).

Now you can bring Getty-Dubay Italic into your classroom for every subject. Perhaps you want your students to learn a vocabulary list, memorize a poem, practice writing homonyms or synonyms. Previously only available for our new book, Getty-Dubay Italic Calligraphy, now the Italic Handwriting Series has DIY worksheets. Just enter the text you want to practice in our online tool and then print the PDF it generates — it’s that simple, and it’s free! Visit the DIY Worksheets and Videos page to get started.