Parents' Guide to Alphabytes

Parents need to know that Alphabytes is an educational app that helps kids learn their letters, the sounds letters make, how to write both upper and lower case letters, and how to spell a few words. The game is divided into four sections: Alphabet, Trace, Spell, and Play. In Alphabet, kids tap on a letter, and an image appears that starts with that letter. The narrator says the letter and the word out loud. Kids can then interact with the image. Also, tapping on the letter or word on the screen has the narrator repeat them. Each of the 26 letters has an interactive image. Trace teaches kids how to print both upper and lower case letters. Once a letter is chosen, the letter outline is given, with numbers and arrows to guide kids in tracing. This guide can be turned off. Spell takes the 26 words used in the Alphabet portion and requires kids to tap letters to go into spots to spell the words. The letter spots have the required letters marked in them, but this can be turned off. More letters than are needed are given, and letters need not be tapped in order. Play has a memory game where kids match letters with the picture of an item that begins with that letter.