Channie's Visual Dry Erase Magnetic Alphabet Tracing Board for Cursive Letter, Practical Portable Cursive Magnet Tracing Board for Kids, with Color-Coded Blocks & Black Marker, 2 Pack

I bought these so my daughter could improve her cursive writing but unfortunately these litters are casual and do not match the Abeka curriculum she uses at her school. The blank one is helpful though.

Smaller than I expected B/C I didn't pay attention to actual size listed in description. The photo of teacher writing on the board is misleading. Nice whiteboards for individual use or one-on-one instruction.

Perfect for getting started in cursive writing.

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.

On the positive side, these arrived earlier than I expected and my son was excited to start using them and created his own "lesson plan" with how he wanted to use them. He wanted to do more work each day than I was originally going to ask of him, so I was happy with that.On the downside, they are very flexible. I like that they are magnets and not going to be lost easily as they are stuck to the refrigerator. However; when you want to use one, you need to have a desk, table or other hard surface to set it on to start writing. I was hoping for something a little more firm.Also - when it says there is a blank side for practicing math or other things, I was expecting an honestly "blank" side. I was not thinking a magnetic board that is simply missing the outlines of the letters but has all of the other lines, colors, etc... on it. I was envisioning a backside that is just plain white - nothing on it. But the backs of these are black and magnets. Not anything wrong with that - just wasn't how I understood the description originally.All in all I think they are a good value for the money and will help my sons handwriting improve (provided he continues to practice with them of course) :-)

It fits my needs, which is having a kid practice writing and minimizing paper waste.It's more difficult finding whiteboard based alphabets with stroke order tracing than I thought. If there were two things I wish I could change:1) Slightly larger squares for practicing letters. My kid naturally writes a bit bigger than the squares. And sometimes the letter/number proportions looks a bit more narrow than I think they should.2) Sturdiness / Ease of Erasing. I lumped these two together because I think it would a little easier to erase if it were more stiff. Kinda flimsy, like a fridge magnet. For erasing, a smoother coating/finish would help as well.

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 thought from the description this was one board with two sides. It isn’t, there is a board for tracing and a board for practicing. This was, for me, fantastic as I am teaching two kids at different levels.One child has dysgraphia tendencies, would love to get him tested but not something schools test for here. 😟 I had read an article that they do better at one or the other, printing or cursive. It is definitely cursive. Maybe he would have done better at both if he had started writing with this system.Here’s hoping for further improvement.

Love the product. It arrived on time as well