My First Book Of Tracing (Kumon Workbooks)
from: Kumon Publishing North America
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Binding: Paperback
Brand: Kumon
Dewey Decimal Number: 371
EAN: 9784774307077
ISBN: 4774307076
Label: Kumon Publishing North America
Manufacturer: Kumon Publishing North America
Manufacturer Maximum Age: 1188 months
Manufacturer Minimum Age: 24 months
MPN: 7076
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 80
Publication Date: February 05, 2004
Publisher: Kumon Publishing North America
Reading Level: Baby-Preschool
Studio: Kumon Publishing North America
Features:- ISBN13: 9784774307077
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Editorial Review:Product Description:Drawing lines accurately can be a hard task for children. This entry-level book provides toddlers and older children with opportunities to learn to manipulate a pencil skillfully. Simple and fun drawing exercises start with vertical straight lines, and then gradually shift to more difficult lines, such as curves, zigzags, and diagonal lines, providing children with an ideal preparation for learning to write letters and numbers. Through the feel-good experience of tracing, a child's love of learning will blossom.
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My son just turned 3 and he loves this book. We are trying to teach him how to write his name and this book has helped so much with teaching him how to make different types of lines. It has colorful pages that are very age appropriate. It has things like small mazes where the child has to take the little boy through the maze to get to the ball or something simple like that. My son just loves these books and it has helped so much. I can't say enough good things about it and wish I could just show you because it is truly amazing!!! I wish the books were not bound so tightly is my only complaint so that the pages open more and that is just a knit picky thing. You won't be disappointed with this book.
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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.
Copyright ©2003, Mark Carey.
