Smart Tales: Books and Games

In the Netherlands it is absolutely undesirable in schools to teach children the written language/reading by offering capital letters. The capital letters are only discussed when the child has mastered reading, spelling and writing of the "lowercase" letters. And above all: everything, both the small and the capital letters, are learned phonetically. And pronounced phonetically. It is therefore also very important that parents and grandparents, nanny, etc. practice this at home with the child in the same way. When learning to read, spell and write a word, this is done as follows in Dutch primary schools: for example, the word d a k (= roof in American). Dak is spelled du (as in American done), a (as in hard in American), ku (as in culture in American. So never dééé-aaaa-kaaa! in American: would that be if in r oo f : is taught here as ru-oe-fff and never as ar-oo (as in over) -ef. In summary: every country has its own pronunciation, way of offering, characters. I advocate offering apps in the native language and in accordance with the method of the country in question, otherwise the apps will do more harm than good.