Learn Handwriting Skills the Fun Way!
Ready to Print is created and maintained by an Occupational Therapist with over 25 years of experience working with children. It is a comprehensive tool for parents, therapists and educators to help teach pre-writing skills to children in order to build a strong foundation for beginning printers.
We continue working to make Ready to Print the most complete writing development iPad app available, and continue to add new features.
Ready to Print progresses through the pre-writing skills in a specific order, so that children can master the visual-motor, visual-perceptual, and fine motor skills necessary for correct printing patterns. It is designed to teach children the correct patterns for printing, and to avoid bad habits that are difficult to change as the child gets older.
Ready to Print features 194 separate levels in 13 activities. The latest addition is the Touch and Drag activity, which helps students work on movement in one of four specific directions.
- It's designed with a progression of skills that work towards correct printing patterns.
- It allows you to change size settings to match each child’s skill level.
- It features a progression from larger hand movements to smaller, more refined movements.
- It lets you choose which activity and level to begin on.
- It allows setting up multiple user profiles, and remembers skill settings and tracks progress for each user.
- It allows you to send progress reports via e-mail directly from the app.
- It detects the size of your iPad and adjusts sensitivity automatically.
- Choose from either sound effects or voice prompts.
- Turn many features on or off, for everyone or by student.
- High contrast mode available.
Ready to Print works on any size iPad. Requires iOS version 12 or higher.
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Children's Technology Review Editor's Choice Award
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I am a pediatric school based occupational therapist and this app is exactly what I was looking for! It allows adjustments for size of borders for tracing, tracking progress for individual students, and provides a variety of visual motor integration tasks to prepare kids for writing. Keep in mind that this is a great supplement but dont get totally away from pencil and paper and hands on type of activities which are also important. The only thing I was a little surprised about was that the shapes to trace where not in developmental order, but that is minor. I will be using this app daily, and with my own kids too!
Wow!
Bgbmom
Finally an app that has everything I have been looking for. As a pediatric OT, I love using the iPad with kids, but had to use several different apps to work on various skills. With this app, everything is all together. There are so many things I love about it- it is simple with no distractions, I can change the size of the lines depending on the child's level, there are no negative responses with errors, plus many more! Thank you for such a well thought out app. I am definitely going to recommend this to parents.
Like this app very much, but...
Judybb1
This is a great app for the preschoolers I work with. As a speech/language pathologist working with kids who may have multiple challenges, I find many opportunities to connect the fine motor practice with speech. The child's voice in the app is very engaging as well, but I'm wondering whether you might consider two or more voices to choose from, as the voice in the app does demonstrate a distorted /r/ phoneme. Just a thought...
Love it
Tami Folks, OTR/L, ATP
This app has made data collection so much easier and the kids love the activities. The only thing that would make it better is if the letter/ number task would allow me to choose what letters I wanted the child to work on and had options for the letter to have lines so the child can start seeing where the letter rests. This is the best investment I have made.
We've added the ability to select which activities are available, and within each activity, which levels are available. Like most other settings, these are remembered for logged-in users. We've also made some other minor maintenance updates.
