Letter Tracer preschool letters writing practice
By Niftybrick Software
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Description
★★ By popular demand, now with voice-over! ★★
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★★★★★ "I bought this app for my 5 year old who is so excited to show everyone the letters she is writing using this app. It is priceless to see her pride and confidence [...] Thanks for a great app."
Designed by parents, for preschoolers aged 2-5 years.
LetterTracer is an educational tool that helps preschoolers and other pre-reading children trace and paint letter and number shapes. Early exposure to letters and numbers helps prepare children for reading and writing in grade school. LetterTracer's three-way combination of visual letters, interactivity via tracing, and a spoken voice-over helps children learn and retain the alphabet.
Designed by parents, LetterTracer is generally appropriate for children ages 2 to 5, and was intensively field-tested by our own children! Uppercase and lowercase letters A to Z and the numbers 0 through 9 are shown in three selectable styles:
✔ Flashcard mode: each letter is shown in its regular, filled-in black-on-white rendition. Use this mode as you would flash cards, to practice recognizing letters and numbers with your child.
✔ Tracing mode, for younger children: a hollow outline of each letter is shown. Your child can finger-paint on the screen to trace the letterform.
✔ Freeform mode, for older children: a smaller image of each letter is shown in the upper-left corner; the rest of the screen is available for freehand drawing of the letterform.
Choose from three difference voices; each calls out the name of letters as they appear, to reinforce your child's learning:
✔ Adult Male
✔ Adult Female
✔ Child
LetterTracer is easy and fun to use for both parents and kids:
✔ In flash card mode, "swipe" back and forth to move between letters easily
✔ When drawing, shake your iPhone or iPod Touch to clear the screen and start over. Kids love this feature!
✔ Choose a larger, more forgiving brush size for younger children, or a smaller, more precise brush size for older children
✔ Choose from 10 painting colors
✔ Choose from three different voices to call out letters and numbers
Tactile practice with letters is an excellent complement to "passive education" from television. LetterTracer is appropriate for roughly the same audience as pre-reading and early-reading skills shows such as Super Why, Sesame Street, Blue's Clues, WordGirl, Between the Lions and WordWorld.
LetterTracer is excellent ABC practice for native English speakers, but is also appropriate for introducing the English alphabet to ESL students.
Niftybrick Software is an independent artisan software studio. We take your feedback and satisfaction seriously. Please write to us at support@niftybrick.com with any questions or suggestions.
What's New in Version 2.0.1
Added a volume control to the settings screen to control the loudness of the voice-over.
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Customer Reviews
Needs work...
This is an excellent idea. However, the numbers are out of order and do not match the system taught in school. We do not want to teach the wrong form to children and then reteach later. Numbered steps and arrows would be nice to help children learn to form the letters. On flash cards, both upper and lower case letters should appear together. It would be nice to do random cards or create a custom deck. Schools do not always teach letters in alphabetical order. Maybe add dotted line writting paper background. Add some positive reinforcement. Lastly, the shadowing on the letters looks nice, but throws children off. Add some or all of this and get five stars from me.
Great App
My 3 year old loves this app. He is getting better at letter and number writing and can be hanging off the couch practicing rather than stuck at a table. For him this good. I would suggest a few changes. Nobody writes the number "4" as it is in the app. Also, it would help to have a dotted line option to help with the writing. Though I want the dotted lines. I think it is best to make it an option because as my son is just starting to learn these writing skills, the lines frustrate him. Everyone learns differently. Being able to shake the phone to shuffle the deck would be neat too. Thanks for this app, it is a fantastic start for kids!
No feedback on drawing
This is fine for a very simple app, but there isn't any feedback on how well my kid does his letters, so I have to look at each one and say "good job buddy!"
Some kind of positive reinforcement when he stays in the lines would be great.
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- $0.99
- Category: Education
- Updated: Sep 18, 2009
- Version: 2.0.1
- Size: 2.6 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Niftybrick Software, LLC
- © 2009 Niftybrick Software, LLC
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 2.2.1 or later
