Both Patience and Piper are in love with their new learning DVDs. They have played them more times than I can mention and it has yet to get old.

I received 2 DVDs; Steps4Kids to Write their ABCs (designed to help teach children aged 4-7) and Steps4Kids to write cursive.

The DVDs have been a God send for us. The girls have been more confident about the way they write their letters and I’m very impressed with how their handwriting skills has improved over the course of the last few weeks.

Patience had begun writing in cursive more and more lately and, because of her confidence in what she’s learned, enjoys it ten fold. The results have been amazing. Her cursive writing and penmanship is even more beautiful than before. Her teachers have taken notice too and say that she has gone above and beyond what they’d expect from a 3rd grade student just learning her cursive writing.

Before we received the DVDs, Piper was our biggest concern. We were beginning to think she might be dyslexic. Every other letter/word she wrote was backwards and, on occasion, upside down. Now, hub and I have been reassured that it’s just a phase kids go through while learning letters, which is good to hear, but it was still worrying us because of what she was doing.

Piper is really getting the hang of writing her letters now and the backward problems are becoming more obsolete. She’s done so well at following directions and is eager to listen and learn from her DVD. It’s amazing to see how much her confidence has boosted over the last few weeks. I can see her excitement and enthusiasm for this and it makes us so happy. We continue to give her the positive reinforcement she needs to continue with the DVD and as a result, her motivation is stronger than ever. She’s doing fabulous and her teacher has noticed a tremendous improvement in her penmanship too.

What I love about Step4Kids writing DVDs is that they are so detailed. Before teaching kids how to write their letters, each DVD explains how to properly hold pencils (for right and left handed children). It also explains the importance of good writing habits; in a way kids understand, through demonstration. Once the lessons begin, the fun continues to grow. My girls are so happy with their DVDs and find them to be very interesting and fun to watch.

If you have kids aged 4-7, learning to write their ABCs or children in the early stage of learning to write in cursive; I recommend these videos. Kids can learn so much from these lessons and, because they’re fun to watch, will absorb what they’ve been taught.

About Steps4Kids:

Steps4Kids are home of award winning instructional DVDs to help support students at school and at home. Critically acclaimed by educators and parents alike, their innovative Steps4Kids handwriting DVDs help teach critical penmanship skills using video modeling, colorful graphics to help make handwriting practice fun! Steps4Kids helps demonstrate ‘traditional manuscript’ also known as ‘block printing’ which is used in programs such as Zaner-Bloser. Steps4Kids show hot to do both upper and lowercase in a single DVD. Also included are letter sounds, 100+ spelling/sight words, pencil grip formation demonstrations, posture modeling, tips for lefties and many other writing supports to help students be successful. Easy-to-use menus enable users to access each letter directly to support handwriting lessons and writing activities for general education, homeschooling, special education, occupational therapy and kindergarten readiness.

Visit Steps4Kids store and stay tuned for news about math DVDs and more!!!

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About the DVDs we received:

Steps4Kids—To Write Cursive presents its cursive handwriting DVD, an interactive program created by an award winning DVD design team that includes an education advocate and occupational therapist with experience in both public and private school settings.

An excellent tool for home or school with easy-to-follow verbal cues and visual demonstrations shot from the child’s perspective to help children master the art of writing in cursive

The Steps4Kids Cursive DVD Shows:

-How to write all upper and lowercase letters (with 2 versions of the uppercase “Q” and lowercase “y” to conform with most writing programs)

-Easy-to-remember tips to remember whether to connect uppercase letters and how to connect lowercase letters

-the proper grips for both left and right handed children (special section for “lefties”)

-colorful graphics with cursive sight words to help children learn to read over 100 sight words in cursive and…

-an extra connections section that shows how to write select words to help children practice cursive connections!

-cursive writing games are also offered, throughout, to provide fun breaks that can be played individually or in groups

 

Steps4Kids—To Write their ABCs DVD provides easy-to-follow verbal cues and visual demonstrations to help children master the basics of upper and lowercase traditional/simple manuscript printing and correctly place their letters on lined paper!

The Steps4Kids—To Write their ABCs DVD not only shows how to write, but also includes a special “writing basics’” section with tips from an occupational therapist to assist adults teaching children to write!

Help children avoid poor writing habits with the simple tips provided showing how to recognize, prevent and correct common writing mistakes fro right handed and left handed children such as poor pencil grips, hyper-extended thumbs, wrapped thumbs & the “lefty” wrapped wrist!

Special features include:

-Tips to help avoid letters reversals!

-introduction to 100+ “sight” words

-Demonstrations of letters using stroke similarities to build success

-Drawing “breaks” using letters to make writing practice fun!

-Easy to use menu format that allows views to go to each letter directly for targeted letter practice at home and at school

 

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