The Secret Connection Between Handwriting and Reading

Presented by Christina Bretz, DOT, MS, OTR/L, National Presenter, Learning Without Tears; and Tania Ferrandino, OTR/L, National Presenter, Learning Without Tears

Sponsored by Learning Without Tears

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The secret to literacy is in your hands. During this edWebinar, viewers learn the connection between handwriting and reading and identify how they are explicitly linked to student success. Viewers leave with an understanding of how teaching handwriting in the classroom supports literacy development. View this session to:

• Identify how handwriting is a foundational skill for reading success
• Learn the research connecting handwriting and reading
• Discover multisensory strategies to integrate letter formation, letter naming and letter sounds to promote literacy development

This recorded edWebinar is of interest to PreK-3 educators, administrators, reading specialists, and occupational therapists.

About the Presenters

Christina Bretz is an occupational therapist from Lexington, KY. She has extensive pediatric experience providing services to children in school settings, early intervention, home health care and private tutoring. Christina established an annual summer handwriting camp utilizing the Handwriting Without Tears® program. Christina began working for Learning Without Tears in 2002 and currently works as a program specialist and national presenter.

Tania Ferrandino graduated as an occupational therapist from her native England in 1992. She has practiced in multiple settings, but ultimately specialized in the school setting, working extensively with children of all ages and abilities. Tania’s passion is sharing with educators best practices for engaging and working with children to achieve written production success. Tania is employed by Learning Without Tears as a Sr. professional learning producer and national presenter.

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Learning Without Tears’ mission in today’s changing learning landscape is to ensure that the path to student success remains simple and fun. We provide child-friendly, hands-on, innovative instruction for early learning, handwriting, keyboarding, and writing strategies, and our programs reach more than 31 million students in Pre-K through fifth grade.