Cursive Writing Wizard - Trace Letters and Words
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Teachers take note -- your conception of how a child learns to write cursive letters just might change. We've reviewed plenty of tablet-based letter tracing apps, but this one turns your iPad into a highly customizable cursive writing tutorial that takes up where Writing Wizard (CTR, Sept 13) leaves off. The best part about this app? The way you can customize it to just about any child or school curriculum. A suite of parent/teacher options lets you tailor the app to an individual child. You can adjust such details as the font (D'nealian cursive, Zaner Bloser cursive or two French fonts), tracing speed, turn on/off the various (zany) reinforcements, adjust the background music and set a timer. For example, you can turn on/off the star mode, in case a child wants to freely play. Content includes: 26 animated stickers and sound effects; 4 games that animate letters; the ability to create your own word lists (and record audio for each word); ability to customize the app to the child's education level (e.g. letter size, difficulty, show/hide model, allow to stop between key points, etc.); upper and lower case letters; numbers (and word lists; customizable letter sounds; and unlimited users. Detailed progress tracking lets you see exactly what a child has done. This type of app might lower the floor for writing instruction, because of the well designed help features that build on accomplishment.
$3.99, iPad, iPhone, Android
Teaches: fine motor skills, writing, cursive, letters, spelling, French cursive, French Cursive 2, D'nealian cursive and Zaner Bloser Cursive
CTR Rating: 96%