Trace 'n Write is a program that can help your child learn to write upper and lower case letters of the alphabet. It is intended for pre-school and kindergarten age children.

Choose a letter to practice on by pressing a letter of the alphabet from one of the rows at the bottom of the screen. The letter selected is displayed on the screen, as it would be on ruled lettering paper in upper case and lower case. Each letter of the alphabet has numbers indicating the order to make each pen stroke and arrows showing the direction. Your child can trace each letter of the alphabet directly on the screen with the stylus, just as you would with pencil and paper. After a short period of time, the tracing disappears and the letter can be traced again. Also, below each letter are guidelines where your child can practice writing letters on their own. What better way to use your Pocket PC? helping your child get a head start learning to write!

Trace 'n Write takes advantage of the built in Transcriber utility that is part of the Pocket PC operating system. The Transcriber is turned on by pressing the up arrow in the lower right corner of your screen and choosing the menu option "Transcriber". The utility has options that can be used to change the color of the tracing and the duration of time the tracing is displayed on the screen.

Requirements: Handheld device with Pocket PC 2000 or newer operating system. The .NET compact framework needs to be installed. This is installed on devices with Pocket PC 2002 and 2003 (Windows Mobile) and on some Pocket PC 2000 devices. It is available as a free download from Microsoft.