PointScribe's User Created Shapes feature allows you to create and save your own cursive letters and words, foreign alphabets, mazes or graphics. It’s a quick, easy, powerful tool for creating dynamic custom content; it's potential is limited only by your imagination.
 When you open PointScribe's User Created feature, you are presented with a blank page; you become the artist and the User Created Palette is your canvas. Make your own letters, shapes, block print words, cursive letters and words, graphics, mazes, foreign characters, puzzles, games---the sky truly is the limit! PointScribe converts your creation on the screen into a "shape" for student use.
When a student is presented with your User Created shapes, all of the same properties that apply to shapes from PointScribe's built-in libraries apply: start and stop points, crumb trails, centerlines, immediate feedback, Tutor Options and more. All customizable settings (colors, sound, audible cues, etc.) available for built-in content are also available for use with User Created Shapes.
Examples of some of the creative ways the User Created Palette page can be incorporated into your teaching strategies are shown below. We've also included links to descriptive Tutorials that show how simple it is to work with this powerful feature. |
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Create individual cursive letters, entire alphabets,
or even cursive words and names within minutes
for use as lesson content.
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Create fun and dynamic exercises that allow students to play with a purpose while supporting early literacy, helping form proper handwriting habits, and developing fine motor skills.
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Write and save words, then combine them
into a lesson using the Sequence Manager.
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Capture individual characters or words from a foreign alphabet
as in this example showing the Mandarin Chinese
character for "mountain."
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