Jan 23, 13
Posted by Jennifer in 4-Apples, Featured, Free Apps, Grade One (6-7), iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Kindergarten (5-6), Language Arts, Language Development, Letter Names, Lite/Freemium Available, Memory, Paid Apps, Preschool (2-4), Reading, Reading, Special Needs, Spelling
Learn With WordFriends provides a unique, context-rich way to learn about word and letter awareness, early vocabulary and spelling through the construction of the word friend animals and objects out of the letters that spell their names.
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Sep 13, 12
Posted by Jennifer in 4-Apples, Featured, Grade One (6-7), Grade Three (8-9), Grade Two (7-8), Grades Four to Six (9-12), iPad, Kindergarten (5-6), Language Arts, Mac, Paid Apps, Reading, Reading, Special Needs, Spelling, Windows
My daughter (9) isn’t a natural speller, and she counts this as amongst her top 5 favorite apps – she ASKS to use it throughout the day and absolutely loves it. The gentle, positive approach and fun space theme have really captured her, and I am intrigued by the unique guided copywork-style approach to spelling. We’re going to keep working with this app and see how my daughter’s work with it translates into spelling and writing confidence.
Even though this first version of Spell Trekking is a bit rough around the edges, I highly recommend you check it out for free and see if this approach would work for your child.
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Mar 14, 12
Posted by Jennifer in 5-Apples, Featured, Golden App Award, Grade One (6-7), Grade Two (7-8), Grammar, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Kindergarten (5-6), Language Development, Paid Apps, Preschool (2-4), Reading, Sight Words, Special Needs, Vocabulary
Noodle Words is the most fun I’ve ever had exploring words with my children. We sat down together and laughed, and tapped, and giggled – the words and bugs not only intrinsically demonstrate the meaning of each word, but they also have an awful lot of fun doing so! I hope new word sets are coming soon.
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Jan 10, 12
Posted by Jennifer in 5-Apples, Featured, Grade One (6-7), Grade Three (8-9), Grade Two (7-8), Grades Four to Six (9-12), iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Kindergarten (5-6), Paid Apps, Preschool (2-4), Readers, Reading, Reading, Sight Words, Special Needs
eReading: The Best Thing combines a classic story, lovely watercolor illustrations, and word-by-word highlighting and narration to create a charming read-along experience that reinforces the core 220 Dolch sight words.
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