Parents' Guide to

Montessori Crosswords

By Erin Bell, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 4+

Learning tool for kids to practice phonetics and literacy.

App iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad Paid Education
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What you will—and won't—find in this app.

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age 5+

Based on 2 parent reviews

jlipiec
jlipiec Parent of 4-year-old
May 10, 2011
age 4+

Perfect app for my 4yr old

My 4yr old loves this app. He is a Montessori student, so this is the only app that goes along with how he is currently learning to read. He does great with the 3 letter words so far, and loves the moveable alphabet game where he can just spell words on his own. I like that he can easily see the answer if he is stumped, which encourages him to copy the larger words he doesn't know.

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Eli_Zag
Eli_Zag Parent of 3-year-old
September 16, 2010
age 6+
I personaly like it but it is a bit difficult for my 4 year old boy because he does not know his letters very well yet. And it is not so fun so it is hard to have them stay more than a few minutes. Probably he will like it more in a few months...
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What’s It About?

MONTESSORI CROSSWORDS puts the language shelf of a Montessori classroom into your kid's hands. Kids choose their level, from simple three-letter words to more complex words, and then drag and drop letters to spell the assigned word. Kids can hear the letter sounds as they decide which letters to use. Kids can access hints (seeing the word spelled out so they can match letters) by tapping the question mark. Kids can customize the app, too, choosing capital or lowercase letters and choosing print or cursive letters.

Is It Any Good?

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The best edutainment apps are able to teach kids without condescending to them, and Montessori Crosswords is a beautiful example of this. Its presentation is fun and aesthetically pleasing, but not too sugary as to turn off older kids (the app targets kids as old as 10 and as young as 3). With a database of nearly 300 words and their corresponding pictures, along with tens of thousands of possible crosswords, Montessori Crosswords is a great way for kids to develop literacy in an engaging way that feels like play.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

  • Read with your kid every day. It's the first step to encouraging your kid to be a lifelong reader.

  • When talking about letters, be sure to make the letter's sound for your child in addition to (or instead of) naming the letter.

  • Work on lowercase letters. Most words in print are composed of lowercase letters.

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