Vtech Smartboard User Manual - Page 9

Activities 1. Slide the activity selector to "Letter Writing". 2. If you want to practice writing on your own, write any letter in the Smart Writer spaces before choosing a letter. The learning toy will tell you the letter you've written. Keep practicing! Or press a letter to learn its strokes. 3. Choose a letter by pressing a letter button. If you don't make your selection within a few seconds, the unit will automatically choose a letter for you. 4. On the LCD screen, you will see the letter strokes taught step by step. Watch the LCD screen carefully as it shows you the proper steps in forming a letter. Practice writing that letter in any of the Smart Writer spaces. If you have written the letter correctly, you will hear a positive response such as, "Wonderful! You wrote the letter A." Keep listening to learn a word that begins with that letter. Then check out the cool picture of it on the screen. Press another letter button to continue your writing lessons and learn some more. If you do not write a letter correctly after three tries, you will be asked to try a different letter. 5. As you practice your writing, you can press the Repeat button to view the instructions on how to form the letter again. Or, if you make a mistake, you can press the Erase button to clear the screen and start over again. 8