Miss Jeanie as the education coordinator also works with the teaching staff to implement handwriting skills.  Handwriting fluency is fundamental to all areas of elementary education, because children think and write at the same time.  When we teach children to write, we also teach them to express themselves. If they struggle with their letters, their ability to express themselves will suffer. Children who don't master handwriting may be slow, sloppy, or illegible writers. Spelling and math will also be affected.  Handwriting Without Tears (HWT) uses fun, entertaining, and educationally sound instructional methods to teach handwriting to all students.  Developmentally, capitals are easier so we teach them first. The capital teaching order helps teach correct formation and orientation while eliminating reversals.  Learning capitals first makes learning lowercase letters easy. We teach lowercase c o s v w first because they are exactly the same as their capital partners, only smaller. By teaching capitals first, we have prepared children for nearly half of the lowercase letters that are similar in formation.