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

These three individual apps contain handwriting curriculum for ages 6-9 in three year-long workbooks for the classroom or homeschool. Now available on the App Store.

The Getty-Dubay Italic Handwriting Series Books A – G are the popular workbooks for students age 5 and up. These three apps cover Book B for age 6-7, Book C for age 7-8, and Book D for age 8-9.

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. The Getty-Dubay Italic Handwriting Series Books B, C and D come preloaded with the apps. 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 their work via the iPad native screenshot function.

On the 12.9” iPad Pro, the pages will appear in portrait mode. On smaller iPads, pages will appear in landscape mode and scrolling will allow you to access the entire page. (Screen rotation and zooming are disabled.)

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.

Compatibility: iPad Pro 12.9″, iPad Pro 11″, iPad Air 10.5″ or iPad 10.2″. Requires iOS 8.0 or later, and the use of Apple Pencil or similar stylus with palm-rejection. Content will appear in landscape orientation on smaller iPads.

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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!

The app is optimized for:

• Apple Pencil (or similar paired stylus) with iPad Pro 12.9″, iPad Pro 11″, iPad Air 10.5″ or iPad 10.2″;

• Android tablet with paired stylus, minimum screen dimension 7.5″ (width or height, whichever is longest). Recommended device: Google Pixel Slate with Google Pixel Pen, or tablet with similar processor speed and memory. Many Android tablets can run this app, but slower devices may experience latency. Stylus must have palm-rejection capability.

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 $88.95.

Italic Handwriting Series bundle: Buy the Getty-Dubay® Italic Handwriting Series complete set for K – 6 and receive a complementary Exemplar-y Tote Bag! The set contains seven workbooks A-G, the Instruction Manual and two desk strips. Purchase the entire set for $88.95 and get a FREE cloth book tote bag and free shipping — a combined $35.00 value! Use discount code “GDPTOTE” at checkout*.

Order now for $88.95

FREE Trial of Special Online Content extended until end of school year. Watch instructional videos and make your own handwriting worksheets. Register here for a free trial through June 15, 2020.

Letter of the Day Video Series
We’re creating a series of videos that take you through the alphabet using our new Getty-Dubay® Handwriting Success App. We demonstrate best practices for each letter — one at a time. Follow along with lined paper, or your copy of the Getty-Dubay® books or app. View now…

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.

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!