Trace Letters & Sight Words

As a homeschool parent, finding a truly educational preschool learning app is not easy, but Trace Letters & Sight Words has been a game changer for our daily routine. This app combines letter tracing, handwriting practice, and sight word learning in a way that feels natural and stress-free for young children. My preschooler loves tracing uppercase and lowercase ABC letters, and I love that it reinforces proper pencil control and fine motor skills. The clean design, child-friendly visuals, and clear tracing paths make this one of the best handwriting apps we’ve tried. It’s ideal for homeschoolers who want a structured yet playful way to teach early literacy. Highly recommend for preschool and pre-K learning at home!

The app is very user friendly. My now 5 year old started using Trace Letters & Sight Words when he was 4. He loves to show his two-year-old brothers different features (games, songs, etc). The games are fun to him. He enjoys the section that has new features related to the month and/or holidays. He also loves earning the stars to build his hamster cage. It is strangely motivating. He recently got his own iPad and was anxious for me to download the app on the iPad for him to play. I was not sure if he would be interested in it with all the FreeTime games and activities, but he still went back to Trace Letters & Sight Words. I have yet to let me 2 year-olds play with it much, but they do love all the music/songs that the program has to offer that their big brother shares with them.

My son is struggling with his handwriting. I downloaded about 6 apps to try them out. There were just 2 that made the short list and this was one of them. When ended up selecting this one for two reasons: the graphics are so neat when you fill in the letters and really mesmerize my son. He uses a stylus to trace and it works well. The second reason, and this is important, is that the way the instructions go with it, it asks you to trace in a gliding motion. The other apps we had would require you to actually pick up the stylus/break contact with the surface in order to change directions within a letter. However that isn't the proper way to learn to write. One continuous fluid motion is recommended by my son's occupational therapist. Therefore we felt this program was the more realistic and helpful for him.