Channie's Visual Dry Erase Number & Alphabet Magnetic Board, Reusable Number & Letter Tracing Board for Kids Ages 3+, with Color-Coded Blocks, Practical 2 Pack + 1 Black Marker

I purchased 24 of these with a grant for my students. All 24 students are very happy with these. They are durable and easy to wipe off for practicing again and again. I teach 3rd grade and cursive is introduced as a standard in this grade, which is important for reading historical documents and more, and as with most learning, practice makes perfect! This allows them an easy practice board to trace until they feel confident and then a blank space for their own writing. As a classroom teacher, I think this is a wonderful way to encourage practice in a fun way without using up a lot of paper! I’m happy my students will have these during distant learning. I would highly recommend these- 24/24 students agree!

I ordered these for my 9 year old struggling with dyslexia and dysgraphia. It was between this and handwriting without tears. This was simpler option (not requiring the purchase an an entire curriculum) so I figured we would give it a try first. He gets very frustrated when practicing writing and the ease of erasing and trying again with the dry erase board really helps to take the anxiety out of feeling the need to be perfect. He also has trouble remembering the position of each letter, so I was hoping the green portion of each line would be a good visual cue. So far he is still visually confused on the blank practice page, being that there are three rows to choose from in each line. The green line doesn’t seem to make it easier yet. The additional vertical lines (intended to help with letter spacing) seem to be visual clutter for him as well. But we are a unique situation so for most kindergarten level kids that this is intended for might not have an issue with any of that. I also feel like the size of the print would be great for younger learners. It is much bigger than it seems in the pictures. I thought the letter size would be too big but it looks like he can make each letter formation without having to move his whole hand one way or another. I’m not thrilled with the size consistency of the letters, they all take up the same amount of space in a block so you have a giant n and what feels like a normal sized m. But we are using this mostly to develop the muscle memory of letter formation so it isn’t a big deal. (Also, pet peeve of mine, the lowercase “q” is what you see in type, without the hook tail.) The quality is much better than I thought. I missed that these were magnetic and because of that, they are incredibly thin while being very sturdy. The only problem I have is the marker that comes with it. It’s far too small for anyone to use comfortably. But it wasn’t a huge deal to buy something that worked better for us.

Buying this little tool as we are going back to the Blumenthal, "How to Tutor" approach that was so helpful& effective in our early homeschooling. Teaching manuscript AND cursive to children is a relatively new practice. Manuscript was for printing presses with the demand & limitations of typesetting requiring a strict separation of letters, & learned by adults going into certain specialties like drafting and architecture. Cursive is actually designed for human writing with a minimum of strokes & easy flow that is quicker& easier to do physically. A lot more attention is being paid to posture & such again these days to avoid many common later problems in physical misalignments that can cause pain, shallow breathing & even asthma, digestive issues; in injuries caused by habitual poor posture & the resulting poor muscle tone & training; carpal tunnel & such things......as well as to the inability of people to write & read cursive. Surprisingly good cursive handwriting training with proper posture from an early age can help avoid those things even more than, or in tandem with, sports training.--- It used to be that it was the handwriting taught all children which minimized confusion & freed up learning time for content & literacy rather than mechanics. We'll be teaching both. but focusing on mastering cursive. Even when folks use manuscript printing, they tend to connect letters & to add cursive mechanics naturally for speed and efficiency. In the same way, 'sports' was often child-organized & -initiated with things like sandlot baseball....an outlet & true recreation rather than an end in itself requiring adult coaching& bringing unnecessary & unnatural demands & pressures along with it, supporting entire industries & having nothing to do with the actual well-being or needs of the child.---This is a back to the basics, common sense, nexpensive, effective & reusable little people tool which can be passed on & which causes the child to focus on forming letters & then words without the distractions of dancing teddy-bears or the type of burlesque that used to be relegated to the red-light districts which only hinder & create unnecessary dependencies for little children who then go on to grow in size alone & not in maturity or in the mastery of real abilities necessary to the maintenance of a free & literate society. Not a tool that will put words in their mouths, do their 'imagining' for them, correct grammar & spelling never learned....and frequently corrected in error by AI, or that will set limits on what they really learn & master for themselves.

We needed a whiteboard for remote learning. The kiddo was having trouble with sizing and spacing and the blank board has resulted in a significant improvement. The practice boards are great - I love there is a red dot to show where to begin writing and the numbered arrows to show which part to make first and which follows. This has been so helpful in reinforcing that letters show be written from the top and not the bottom. These "boards" are about the size of paper and not much thicker. If they get banged around enough, you could begin to peel back the edges. I like to keep ours in a folder to prevent damage. Feedback to the maker would be to create a similar board with 4 rows for writing instead of 3, for kids who are ready to begin writing smaller. Would also prefer to it to have a stiffer board (non-magnetic) with a blank board on the back. Sometimes the kiddo needs to draw for class also.

can't wait to use this!

Love the product. It arrived on time as well