What's New

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

Now includes cursive! Toggle between South Australia Beginner's Regular Font and South Australia Beginner's Cursive Font.

App Description

Now for South Australia – practice South Australia Beginner's Regular Font and South Australia Beginner's Cursive Font with an Australian accent! Teachers love "Touch and Write" because children delight in writing when they can use shaving cream, paint, and jello. Create your own, individualized word and name lists - our database includes phonics coding for 80,000 words and names! Or practice one of the many included word lists, such as high frequency words, and word families (-AT family, -AN family, and more.) Children can listen to the PHONICS SOUND of each letter as they write, or toggle to hear the NAME of each letter. Developed by classroom teachers – builds on best education practices!

This is from a review of our Victorian "Australian Touch and Write" app:
"Brilliantfun way to learn Victorian cursive. I have been waiting for an app like thisa fun way teach Victorian Modern Cursive, an app my special needs son enjoys playing with and learns as he goes. He can even use a stylus to draw the letters and build the muscle memory in his hand, that can later be transferred to writing with a pencil or pen. All children will benefit from this app, presenting learning writing in an exciting format, great guides to help learn where to start and stop letters, and great celebration pages to keep them interested and rewarded. I like that you can use the word lists or make your own so then the app grows with the child into writing full words, not just letters. I think I will be trying it out with my son's spelling lists too and double benefitwriting and spelling. It is also great to be able to teach Aussie formats such as Victorian Modern Cursive.... Almost all the apps I have tried have been US based. Thanks FizzBrain! You are a star!"kr4177, customer review

FEATURES:
>>Toggle letter SOUNDS or letter names
>>Database includes phonemes for 80,000 words and names
>>Easy to make your own word lists! Children can practice writing their own names and individualized spelling lists. Parents and teachers can create as many word lists as they want.
>>Integrates visual, kinesthetic and simulated tactile modalities to enhance learning – and fun!
>>Created by elementary classroom teachers – based on best teaching practices!
>>Australian accent
>>Comes with 16 different writing textures: shaving cream, ketchup, lime gelatin, chocolate frosting, chalk, pencil, blue pen, lemon gelatin, chocolate pudding, syrup, grape jelly, whipped cream, pumpkin pie, red paint, and vanilla pudding
>>Comes with 28 different writing papers, including 4 different line patterns children are most likely to find in real classrooms, food papers, animal papers, nature papers, and more
>>Includes 2 high frequency word lists to help children practice the most common words encountered by early learners
>>Includes word family lists, such as the -AT family and -AN family
>>Includes 2 alphabet word lists – short words from a to z – providing practice in both upper and lower case letters
>>Includes 1 alphabet list – for just practicing the letters a to z, both upper and lower case
>>Brief reward at the end of each word reinforces learning and motivates children, without becoming a distraction!

Search YouTube for "Touch and Write App" to see how our other writing apps work, or locate the FizzBrainApps channel.

Please contact us at [email protected] with any questions, problems, or suggestions. We will get right back to you – we listen to our customers! And if you have additional textures or papers you would like to see included in an update, let us know!

iPhone Screenshots

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iPad Screenshots

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App Changes

  • June 25, 2016 Initial release
  • November 07, 2016 New version 2.0