Common Sense Media Review
By Jenny Bristol
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based on child development research. How do we rate?
Slow-paced letter tracing app with a mild game element.
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Dora's Skywriting ABCs
Is It Any Good?
DORA'S SKYWRITING ABCS is part letter tracing educational app, part game. The letter tracing portion is well-done -- kids get practice "writing" their letters as well as with sounds of letters. Both the letter names and sounds are reinforced often.
The tilting game in between the tracing portion seems like an afterthought. Tilting your device is hardly required, since the acorns bounce into place mostly on their own. The whole game is fairly repetitive and slow-moving. There are no controls in the game to allow you to skip ahead to another letter, or go back to an earlier letter. If kids want to trace the entire alphabet, it is time consuming. Only capital letters are represented. Also, some of the sounds for the letters seem off. P sounds like dropping a nut on the ground while Q sounds more like Qu.
App Details
- Devices : iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad
- Pricing structure :
- Release date : December 13, 2010
- Genre : Educational Games
- Publisher : MTV Networks
- Version : 1.0
- Minimum software requirements : iOS 3.0 or later
- Last updated : November 15, 2019
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