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By Dana Anderson
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based on child development research. How do we rate?
Good practice for kids unafraid of spooky main character.
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Sight Words Hangman
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What's It About?
In Sight Words Hangman, kids choose from one of 45 lists (10 words each) and hear a word. After the word is spoken, four choices appear. Kids select the word they think is correct from those choices (which typically vary quite a bit from one another; no attempts are made here to "trick" kids into picking the wrong word). The app keeps score in the upper right-hand corner so kids can track it. If kids choose incorrectly, a part of the hangman appears on the gallows.
Is It Any Good?
SIGHT WORDS HANGMAN is a straightforward, well-crafted word recognition practice game for new readers. The app developer indicates that it's particularly suitable for kindergarten and first-grade students as well as people learning the English language. As long as your kid isn't afraid of the rather spooky hangman image -- with big, beady black eyes and a bloated, blue body -- this game will be rewarding and fun. Sure, it's not expected that any game with a name like "Hangman" and that includes a gallows by virtue of the game itself would include sweet images of flowers or puppies. But it would be nice if the creators perhaps offered a choice on hangman images for parents to choose from based on their new readers' preferences: A simple stick figure for the more timid kids, perhaps a monster or space alien, and the current one for kids who wouldn't be bothered by it.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Play the paper-and-pencil version of hangman with your kid for a different game experience. Use the sight words from the game.
Write sight words on index cards and make a memory match game out of them. Each time kids flip a card, they should say the word.
App Details
- Devices : iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad , Kindle Fire
- Subjects : Language & Reading : spelling
- Skills : Thinking & Reasoning : deduction
- Pricing structure : Paid
- Release date : January 11, 2012
- Genre : Education
- Publisher : Marcel Widarto
- Version : 2.7
- Minimum software requirements : iOS 6.0 or later
- Last updated : November 11, 2020
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