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The New Handwriting Success App

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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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The Getty-Dubay app

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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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The Instruction Manual gets a new look

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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.

Schooling at Home = Handwriting at Home

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Whether you have been recently thrust into the role of homeschool parent, or you have been homeschooling already, no doubt you are eager to find the best resources for educating your child.

Look no further! We’ll be exhibiting at the Great Homeschool Convention Online Convention where you’ll be able to take advantage of a special offer for Getty-Dubay Italic books, and you can find many other school-at-home resources, including featured speakers and presenters.

Here’s how to participate:

See your there!

Please note: Great Homeschool Conventions is a third-party presenter. Handwriting Success is one of many exhibitors, and otherwise is not affiliated with Great Homeschool Conventions.

Love your handwriting?

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Dear Handwriting,

I miss you and everything you do for me.
We used to plan our day together, go shopping together,
connect with people and share our deepest feelings.
But our magic has not disappeared — it is just waiting for the right spark.
I know that we can be legible, and even elegant together again.
Won’t you take my hand? 

Yours, XXX

Three ways to rekindle that spark:

#1. Write a note to someone special.

  • Brush up on your writing first, by using it more — for everyday lists, notes, etc.
  • Work up to that special letter by writing it out on regular paper first — like a rehearsal for a concert.
  • Use writing lines, or place a lined sheet underneath to make your writing more neat and legible.  
  • Choose a pen and paper that you really like the feel of.
  • Find a poem or quotation to write that inspires you.

#2. Use those three little words: Getty-Dubay Italic!

We have handwriting and calligraphy books for all ages.
#3. Share the love by visiting us on Kickstarter!

Getty-Dubay App launches on Kickstarter on National Handwriting Day

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How’s your handwriting?

The Getty-Dubay Handwriting Success App is a complete handwriting improvement program for adults using a tablet and stylus. We chose National Handwriting Day 2020 to take it to Kickstarter.

We’ve been getting requests to make this app for years. Now that Apple, Google, Wacom, Adonit and other manufacturers are ramping up their stylus competition, we think this is the right time to jump in.

With this app you’ll be able to use the WRITE NOW content over and over. Practice to your heart’s content, whenever and wherever you have your tablet and stylus.

With so many tablets on the market, this app needs to present the WRITE NOW content elegantly on many screen sizes, and with multiple stylus platforms. Our app developer is using cross-platform development technology to make sure that the user experience is easy and enjoyable on any suitable tablet. (Minimum tablet dimension will be 7.5 inches.) While this keeps cost down, there will be challenges with optimizing for the various native platforms.

We’re starting simple; no bells and whistles to distract you from your handwriting practice. With subsequent updates, we plan to have an in-app store for all of our handwriting books, and build in more self-assessment features that will complement the user experience.

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