My First Book Of Tracing (Kumon Workbooks),   ISBN:9784774307077

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My son is 4 years old and I purchased this book to help him with his handwritting. I think that this is a very good book for training, but he was really bored with is after a while, he was doing like ten pages at a time and looking at me like "Mom...why are you giving me this"! LOL I think it's more for the 2 or 3 years olds.

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The quality of the graphics is very good. My son who recently turned 4 and who could stand to work on holding the pencil/crayon correctly was very attracted to the pictures, and it made it easy to to give him gentle nudges about holding the p/c correctly, since he was enjoying the activity. It was fun to see him go from holding the p/c correctly 50% of the time, to "naturally" picking up the p/c and holding it correctly.

Also, doing these activities made it easy for him to step over to doing the traces in the Kumon Numbers (1-30) book.

I scanned and printed some of the pages so that he could repeat doing some of them, and it was fun to see the difference between his earlier more wobbly efforts and his later more purposeful lines.

I think maybe Kumon could take over our public schools and do a great job. "From pedagogy to paper, every one of our workbooks has been carefully crafted with your child's best interests in mind." Wish they could say the same for Saxon Math/Phonics which it what most of our public schools use.

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I bought it for my two and half year old. She picked up tracing just like that and she likes it.

I would very much recommend this.

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I really, really wish that I had read the instructions on this book before we started using it. The introduction discusses how the paper was chosen specifically because it's good for erasing. We had begun doing the exercises with colored pencils...which did not erase well. Once we started using a regular pencil, I found that I could give my daughter multiple attempts at each exercise. We now wait until she's able to do each skill with good control of the pencil before we move on.

My daughter asks to "do lines" and likes to create stories from the pictures while traveling along the paths. I'd highly recommend it to anyone who's looking to teach the beginning writing skills to a child. The term tracing may be a bit misleading to some, as it conjures images from elementary school of following a picture precisely. Because this is a beginning book, the paths are wide (although slowly narrowing as the child gains experience) so that there is a margin of error. Dotted lines can be frustrating to try and follow for beginners. By using paths instead, the child can build confidence.

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I purchased several Kumon books and they are all great. My son first enjoyed his cutting and pasting books, and we were able to move very soon to the tracing and simple mazes. Using this book, his pencil skills developed very fast, although he doesn't like coloring as much as tracing. He is now looking forward every day to show us his new achievements.