Which HWOT book(s)?

[SMJW]

I’ve been reading about the HWOT option that many on this site seemed to have used and when looking for the HWOT series there seem to be a few options. I’m trying to understand what book I should actually start with. Letters and numbers? My printing book? My first school book? Should I just expect to need all these to keep up the practicing but have fresh pages/examples? Is there another HWOT book I’m missing that is meant to be the ‘first’ book? Thanks 🙂
 

Also, is it beneficial to only do these books if you’re committed to a certain number of times per week? Eg. could you do handwriting once or twice a week and expect to make real progress? My son doesn’t *love* drawing but he is a really willing kid that I know he would still be good with doing some here and there. I would consider starting if it would work to do couple days a week but if the general advice is practice practice practice every day with it then I will probably give him another year before we push to start it. 

[Kiara.I]

I bought the kindergarten level, with the teacher's guide. I used the teacher's guide precisely once. For us, just getting the workbook worked fine.  I certainly never did every day. I mean some weeks it might have been that? Casual use was where we were at. My kids can form letters, though it's true one kid of three has reverted to odd formation since learning. 

We started with Letters and Numbers For Me, and did use the magnet set to learn the uppercase letters.

Then we did My Printing Book. I don't remember if we did the grade 2 book with one child or not, but after the second they basically knew the letter formation, and we moved to doing copywork in Writing With Ease instead of continuing with teaching letter formation.

I thought about using HWOT for cursive, but looking at their cursive was like nails on a chalkboard for me, and my children had not been prone to tears over handwriting anyway, so we found a much simpler cursive introduction book where the cursive style didn't make me shudder.

[Clemsondana]

We just used the grade-level workbook.  We used it daily at the start of the year, especially in K, so that they could learn or remember how to form the letters and numbers.  Once we got through with the letters and numbers, we'd move to doing it a couple of times a week.  Each lesson takes anywhere from 5 to 15 minutes, so it wasn't a big part of our day.