# For schools and kinderopvang
Real pages to look at, a person who answers email, and an honest answer about whether these books fit what you are doing.

## Printable content

Pages you can copy are not sold or given away here. The pack behind the code in
the back of each book is for the child who owns that book.

There is no school licence. If copyable pages for a whole group is the thing you
actually need, say so, and say roughly how many children: that request is what
would decide whether we make one.


## What these books do, and what they do not

**They do** teach letter formation in a fixed order, with a start dot and
numbered stroke arrows on every model, and rows that reduce support across the
page. The letters are print, not cursive and not pre-cursive: no entry or exit
strokes. The stroke order is the Zaner-Bloser order, the manuscript scheme widely
taught in schools in the United States, and it is the same on every model in
every book.
Book 1 is pre-writing strokes and capital letters only, no lowercase. Book 2 is
lowercase and numbers to 20. Book 3 is words and sentences.

**They do not** teach phonics, reading or Dutch spelling. They are a
handwriting scheme, not a literacy scheme. The regular paperbacks are in
English only; all three books are also in Dutch, as a printable PDF on A4, and
Books 1 and 2 as a printed Dutch book with one child's name and a child who
looks like them, made to order through Etsy (see
[the personalised book](/personalised)). If your school teaches a joined or pre-cursive hand from the
start, these books teach a different letter and will not fit.

**For the youngest group**, Little Lantern Coloring is the same age band drawn
bigger: one picture to a page and lines thick enough for a chunky crayon held
in a fist. The adult coloring books are not for a classroom and are not shown
here.

**Ages are a guide, not a rule.** The bands on the covers are 3 to 5, 4 to 6
and 5 to 6. In a mixed group the useful question is whether a child can hold a
pencil and copy a straight line, not how old they are.


## Bulk orders

There is no trade portal and no minimum order, because we are two people. Email
what you need and you get a real answer, usually the same week.

Tell us:

- Which titles and which editions, and how many of each
- Where they are going, and by when
- What your finance office needs to see on an invoice


## Getting in touch

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Write to **[scholen@lanternladder.com](mailto:scholen@lanternladder.com)**.
That address goes to a person, not a queue. If the question is about the
teaching method rather than an order,
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We answer in English or Dutch.
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