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Speech with Milo: Interactive Storybook
- iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad
- Price: $1.99
- Category: Books
Common Sense Media says
Creativity makes this engaging learning app a favorite.
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What parents need to know
Parents need to know that Speech with Milo: Interactive Storybook lives up to its name. There's interactivity throughout this app, including the option to record your own story to go along with the pictures and hear it played back to you with high-quality sound. Touch a character or object image, and it moves or makes a sound. Swipe the page and listen to the narrator tell you the upbeat story with a good message in helpfulness and friendship. Your older child can also read the story without a narrator voice-over.
What kids can learn
Kids can learn storytelling skills by recording their own story over the illustrations from Milo the mouse's original story. Created by a speech therapist, this app encourages kids to interact with the story and be creative in developing stories of their own. The prerecorded story also provides an example of how to speak and tell stories, with clear, short, descriptive sentences. The sound quality and lack of animation might make it feel a tad outdated. Kids get a fun and creative outlet to practice storytelling and develop imagination.
Skills
- Collaboration
- Communicationconveying messages effectively, listening, speaking
- Creativity
- Emotional Development
- Health & Fitness
- Responsibility & Ethics
- Self-Direction
- Tech Skillsdigital creation
- Thinking & Reasoning
What's it about?
Kids can listen to the pre-recorded story or record their own story over the illustrations from the original story on this app. They'll swipe to turn pages, and they'll interact with different images on the screen by touching them. Clear controls on each page allow users to record their own story. The story is simple but sweet, and it introduces kids to characters they'll recognize on other Milo language apps. Settings allow you to turn off sounds, narrator's voice, text, or interactive features.
Is it any good?
SPEECH WITH MILO: INTERACTIVE STORYBOOK -- a cute, happy storybook app -- is a winner. It's rather lengthy for the pre-k and early elementary school target age, but that's OK because the bright images and all of the interactivity hold kids' attention. The ability to record your own story for the book is a delightful way to practice storytelling and promote imagination.
What kids can learn
Kids can learn storytelling skills by recording their own story over the illustrations from Milo the mouse's original story. Created by a speech therapist, this app encourages kids to interact with the story and be creative in developing stories of their own. The prerecorded story also provides an example of how to speak and tell stories, with clear, short, descriptive sentences. The sound quality and lack of animation might make it feel a tad outdated. Kids get a fun and creative outlet to practice storytelling and develop imagination.
Subjects
- Arts:
- Hobbies:
- Language & Reading: reading, speaking, storytelling
- Math:
- Science:
- Social Studies:
Skills
- Collaboration:
- Communication: conveying messages effectively, listening, speaking
- Creativity:
- Emotional Development:
- Health & Fitness:
- Responsibility & Ethics:
- Self-Direction:
- Tech Skills: digital creation
- Thinking & Reasoning:
How kids will learn
Kids can feel empowered creating their own version of Milo's story as they get to imagine alternative scenarios for the illustrations presented on each page of this app, which is made all the more fun by the bright images and interactivity. Parents, teachers, or therapists could also use the app as an informal tool for assessing young kids' narrative skills.
How parents can help
- Make up a story for Milo with your child, trading off every other page.
- Listen to your child's story, ask questions about it, and provide constructive feedback.
- Act out the story with your child, or help your child make a paper version of the story.
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| Category: | Books |
| Platforms: | iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad |
| Price: | $1.99 |
| Size: | 21.50 MB |
| Publisher: | Doonan Speech Therapy |
| Version: | 1.1.1 |
| Release date: | July 6, 2011 |
| Minimum software requirements: | iOS 3.0 or later |
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