WRITING TRAINER

WRITING TRAINER is a set of 10 numbers, 30 block letters, 58 uppercase and lowercase letters for classic (element-to-element) and continuous writing, and a number of connecting elements.
Writing Trainer has been designed in a form of a plate. Both sides of a plate carry letters and their elements as relief lines. On the bottom part of the lines there are tactile marks made in a form of relief ridge
Parameters of lines and ridges and their frequency make the Trainer a perfect tool for writing training as it simulates classic writing mechanism, ways of managing a pen in the hand, vectors (direction) and epure (pressure) applied to the pen by index finger, middle finger and the thumb. When a child moves his pen along the curves, the point-ball of the ball pen is sliding up the ridges and bouncing down from them.
The ‘slide’ and ‘bounce’ moments are felt by fingertips as tactile messages.
When bouncing down, the ball hits the bottom of the line producing a sound signal (click). The longer is the line, the more ridges are felt and sounds produced. The effect of the Trainer is based on adding tactile (kinesthetic) and aural (sound) analyzers to the visual one. Thus, the letters are perceived as a line of tactile and sound signals read from the relief line.
WRITING TRAINING METHOD
The letters should be drawn 3-4 times. A child should keep the pressure stable when outlining straight and slope lines and connecting elements, avoid overpressure. Fingers should easily feel the relief bottom through the pen.
After practicing the Trainer lines, a child should reproduce the letter in his copybook with a pen 4-5 times. He should keep the pressure stable in order to make the lines equal in size, mind the proportions of width and height, develop the softness of curves.
After practicing the Trainer lines, a child should reproduce the letter on the screen of a