Know exactly where your child’s handwriting stands.
Three minutes of short writing tasks on an iPad or Android tablet, with a stylus or just a finger. Penwick reads the actual pen strokes and gives you a teacher style report with a practice plan built around what your child needs next.
Real strokes on real guide lines. The assessment runs in the app, never in a browser.
A stylus if you have one. A finger if you do not.
Penwick reads the stroke either way, so nothing needs buying before you start. Guide line height and letter size adjust to suit a five year old finger or a nine year old with an Apple Pencil.
Three minutes, three steps
Six short tasks in one sitting. Nothing to print, nothing to mark yourself, and the report is waiting before the tea goes cold.
Your child writes
A letter, then a word, then a whole sentence. Short, friendly tasks with no wrong answers, all on proper guide lines.
Penwick reads the strokes
Not just the finished shape. It follows letter formation, size consistency, start points, slant, joins and spacing, the six things a teacher looks at.
You get the report and the plan
Each area is marked as a level, one first target is chosen, and the practice path starts exactly there.
The report, exactly as it prints
Six things a teacher looks for, each one secure, growing, or the single thing to start with. Read it on the tablet or print it for the fridge.
Eight weeks of practice, in order
Ten minutes a day, starting at the first target and only moving on when it is secure. Every fortnight Maya reassesses and the plan reshapes around what changed.
Handwriting does not finish in eight weeks. Each reassessment sets fresh targets, and the practice moves up with your child as letters turn into joins, joins into sentences, and sentences into stories.
Letters and joins stay free. The assessment and the plan cost nothing to run.
Inside the app
Practice that feels like play, on a path that always knows what comes next.
A clear path, letter by letter
Letters, then joins, then whole words, then sentences, then short stories. Your child always knows what they are working on, and so do you.
Daily practice on proper lines
The same ruled guide lines used in school, at a size that suits small hands. Letters are modelled the way they are actually taught, not printed from a font.
Writing is what unlocks the games
The games are not a reward bolted on the side. Every round is built on the lined paper world, and the way through is to write. Children practise because they want the next land, not because they were told to.
Two playful practice games, plus Story Quest
Build the sentence, word by word
Knock down the cursive towers
Eight lands, eight dragons, one rescue
A gentle adventure where handwriting is the magic. Gates open when the words are written well, and the dragons are more lonely than fearsome.
Explore the village as the fox
Write the magic words to open the gate
Eight lands, one brave rescue
A dragon waits at the end of every land
Why it has to be the app
Handwriting is a movement, not a picture. A web page can only look at the shape left behind, which is why the assessment lives in the app.
It follows the stroke, not the shape
Where the pen started, which way it travelled, and the order the parts were made. A letter can look right and still be built the wrong way.
Letters recorded by a real teacher
Every model letter is a recorded movement, so your child copies the way it is taught in class rather than a printed outline.
Sized for small hands
Guide lines and letter heights adjust from small to extra large, so a five year old and a nine year old both write comfortably.
Guide lines are kept on every screen. They are the thing being learned.
Set up takes about two minutes
Tell Penwick your child’s age, the style their school teaches, and which hand they write with. Then they choose a buddy, an ink colour and the things they love, and their practice sentences fill up with those.
Three quiet minutes, and you will know
Point your tablet camera at the code, or tap through to the store. The assessment runs in the app, where real pen strokes can be read.
