Barchowsky’s Letters Make Words is now in the Apple Store

Nov. 29, 2011 - PRLog -- Barchowsky Fluent Handwriting is pleased to announce the launch of its iPad app, designed by a Handwriting Specialist and an Early Childhood Specialist, to help beginning writers develop good handwriting habits for all academic and adult needs, and to learn basic phonemes.

The first screens offer suggestions of how to use Letters Make Words. Then letters are presented. Each one comprises a complete unit of instruction for that letter, a warm-up pattern, the letter and a word to trace and sound out. Then there are three words and a silly, fun sentence for writing with pencil or other marker on paper. The first screens offer an introduction.

A friendly voice coaches the child to finger trace with the index finger, thereby encouraging good pencil/pen hold when actually writing. It’s the index finger that should push a pen to make a mark with the greatest ease of movement.

Lowercase letters are featured. An app for capitals and numerals will follow soon. Lowercase are the ones we most need when we write, and are the easiest to form. Letter-related warm-up patterns start each unit to help the child with formations.

Starting points and directions for strokes are clearly defined, graphically and by audio.

The audio guides a child through tracing, then the phonemes, saying a word, and asking the child to pronounce it. Then the audio assists the child in tracing the word.

Letters are designed for ease of writing. Reversals (b for d, etc.) are never an issue with the formations used for this app. Barchowsky Fluent Handwriting is recognized by educators and parents internationally as the best way to learn a simple but attractive form of handwriting, the italic method. See the new app at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/letters-make-words/id47830....

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