A pre-writing teaching aid assists beginning writers in creating letters and pre-writing strokes. The teaching aid includes a magnetic-responsive drawing tablet including a housing, a writing surface and structure for displaying an image responsive to magnetic contact on the writing surface. Structure for erasing the image is provided enabling the writing surface to be used over and over. The teaching aid also includes at least four magnetic stamps that are appropriately sized relative to the writing surface and are shaped as big line, little line, big curve and little curve. All of the capital letters in the English alphabet can be formed using these four simple shapes. The resulting assembly provides a fun and effective learning activity.