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Kids Learn to Read
- Android, Kindle Fire
- Price: $3.99
- Category: Educational Games
Common Sense Media says
Cute app moves kids closer to independent reading.
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Kids say
What parents need to know
Parents need to know that Kids Learn to Read is the third in a series of pre-reading and reading apps created by Intellijoy. Cute character Tommy Turtle leads kids into blending letter sounds to form words. There's also a game that encourages kids to build words, and a game that teaches kids to recognize a completed word by sounding it out or by sight.
What kids can learn
Kids can learn blending letter sounds to form words, spelling three- and four-letter words, and recognizing words via phonics or by sight with Kids Learn to Read. All of these pre- and early-reading skills help kids ease into reading. This app isn't a perfect learn-to-read experience (there's not a lot of logical progression of word choices in the games), but it's fun and helpful enough for at least a few sessions of play.
Subjects
- Language & Readingletter or word recognition, phonics, reading, spelling
- Math
- Science
- Social Studies
- Arts
- Hobbies
Skills
- Thinking & Reasoningpart-whole relationships
- Creativity
- Self-Directionacademic development
- Emotional Development
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Responsibility & Ethics
- Tech Skills
- Health & Fitness
What's it about?
Kids learn via three games: Learn to Blend, where kids tap letters to hear words sounded out letter by letter; Try Reading, in which kids match easy words (like "cow" and "pig") to pictures; and Make Words, where kids practice spelling by choosing the correct letter on a block to complete words made up of letter blocks. A woman's voice sounds out each letter as it appears on the screen to help kids learn the skill of sounding out letters and letter combinations that they are seeing visually.
Is it any good?
For kids who have already tried the first two apps in this series of pre-reading apps (Kids ABC Letters and Kids ABC Phonics), this game will present further gentle learning challenges inching kids along to independent reading. Many kids will especially enjoy the colorful elements in the games that include walking a little turtle across a word bridge and giving skateboards and helmets with matching words to cute animal characters.
What kids can learn
Kids can learn blending letter sounds to form words, spelling three- and four-letter words, and recognizing words via phonics or by sight with Kids Learn to Read. All of these pre- and early-reading skills help kids ease into reading. This app isn't a perfect learn-to-read experience (there's not a lot of logical progression of word choices in the games), but it's fun and helpful enough for at least a few sessions of play.
Subjects
- Language & Reading: letter or word recognition, phonics, reading, spelling
- Math:
- Science:
- Social Studies:
- Arts:
- Hobbies:
Skills
- Thinking & Reasoning: part-whole relationships
- Creativity:
- Self-Direction: academic development
- Emotional Development:
- Communication:
- Collaboration:
- Responsibility & Ethics:
- Tech Skills:
- Health & Fitness:
How kids will learn
Kids Learn to Read engages kids in reading practice through three different games. The app is engaging, with a cute turtle and other colorful but basic graphics appear throughout the games. As part of a series of pre-reading apps, Kids Learn to Read helps build concepts kids need to become independent readers.
How parents can help
- Set up letter blocks or other forms of movable letters (even note cards will do) to play the "Make Words" game off-screen with more challenging words.
- Encourage kids to sound out the words they've already learned on this app when you see them elsewhere -- on signs or in storybooks, for example.
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| Category: | Educational Games |
| Platforms: | Android, Kindle Fire |
| Price: | $3.99 |
| Size: | 11.00 MB |
| Publisher: | Intellijoy |
| Version: | 1.1 |
| Release date: | May 18, 2011 |
| Minimum software requirements: | Android 2.1 and up |
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