School Writing for Android

Far too difficult and precise for pre-k and kindergarten . I had difficulty as an adult. Needs better rewards. Bells and whistles. Very disappointing.

School Writing is a must have app for every parent or clinician teaching older preschoolers to elementary students on how to write. From beginning learners to kids learning cursive, this app has it all. It covers a multitude of writing fonts that would fit into any curriculum, as well as comprehensive settings for customization for each user. Progressive lessons help kids gain skills needed for handwriting into manageable "chunks" and they are laid out in a logical sequence to ensure integration of the material. Both visual and auditory cues are provided and you are able to add your own voice recording. A really neat feature is being able to import lessons, photos, and make spelling lists that can be tailored to other areas of study. A child's progress can be exported to email, dropbox or iTunes file sharing for parents and teachers to share. Support for using the app is above and beyond, and you can tell this developer believes and stands behind their work. They are very responsive and even have a website for help with the app. Highly Recommended.

Do not buy this app. The cursive practice is incorrect. Each letter in a word is disconnected to the next letter. Your child will not learn how to connect individual letters to make one word. The guidelines are too small. I wasted $5.

I am a homeschooler, and I downloaded this app to help reinforce correct letter formation for my kids. And I really like it. I like how easy it is to switch to cursive. I like the flexibility of the whiteboards. However, I have a couple problems. The first, and by far the most important, is that the "easy" setting is far too hard. On the "easy" setting, my 5 year old never gets her letters right, and my 7 year old gets his right only half the time. This is tears-producing frustrating to them. "Easy" should be much, much easier. When kids are just beginning, sloppiness isn't important; correct methodology is. All I care about is whether they start in the right spot, proceed in the right direction, and make the correct number of pencil-strokes for each letter. Wobbly letters should still be correct on the "easy" level. If the developers are unable to fix this problem, I will probably abandon this app for one more suitable for beginners. My second problem is that selecting between profiles is not very intuitive. It would make more sense to have all the profiles displayed on a different screen and selected before seeing the activity list. My third problem is that there appears to be a bug when creating your own custom whiteboard assignment. I think it was as I was adding "pages" to a whiteboard assignment that I attempted to click on a tiny icon that looked like a "settings" type of icon, and this caused the app to crash. This happened every time I clicked that icon. So I overcame my curiosity to know what it did and stayed away from that icon. Thank you.

Wow. The touch targets work only part of the time. I can't even select a different profile. Was this tested at all? Switches in settings sometimes work, sometimes not.