Apps for Learning to How to Read
- Interactive Alphabet ABCs
- Ages: 1-5
- Price:99
- The child is given the ability to sing, trace, and type their way to becoming a reader. They have the opportunity to explore letters and sounds, while singing the alphabet with 26 dancing robots and tracing mod includes letters, words, and left-handed support. This app is aligned to the Kindergarten Reading Foundational Skills in the Common Core Standards
- ABC Gurus
- Ages: 2-5
- Price:99
- The child is given the opportunity interact with the ABCs as they personalize each letter into a crazy character. The app gives the ability to scroll through the alphabet and choose a color, add silly faces, cartoon eyes, and a grinning mouth to their letter. As they color their letter, they will hear the phonetic sounds the letter makes. Once he presses the “play” button the letter figure will come to life in a funny animation; making learning fun for the child.
- Monkey Word School Adventure
- Ages 3-5
- Price 1.99
- Join Monkey and his jungle friends as they explore different letters, phonics, and spelling. The app has a special focus on sight words, and lessons ranging from letter recognition and sounds to word components such as irregular vowels and consonant blends.
- Learn with Homer
- Ages: 3-6
- Price: Free
- Children have the ability to learn how to read by covering 50 different reading skills, including phonics, pronunciation, upper and lower-case letter recognition, blending and more.
- Hooked on Phonics – Learn to Read
- Ages: 4+
- Price: Free
- The app comes complete with three lessons, with interactive games that show how sounds become words and words become stories. At the end of each lesson, there is a story for the child to read out loud.
Letter Formation and Handwriting
- Writing Wizard
- Ages: 4+
- Price: 4.99
- This app allows children the ability to learn how to trace and form letters using 26 different animated stickers. Once the tracing is complete, the child as the ability to interact with the letter on 4 different games that animate the letter.
- Hairy Letters
- Ages: 4-6
- Price: 2.99
- The child has the ability to learn how to form each letter shape with their finger. The app offers different games to blend each letter into sounds and words. Includes upper and lower-case letters. Letter sounds are introduced in six color-coded stages. The games progress from tree letter words to four and five letter words.
- Letter Reflex
- Ages: 5+
- Price: 3.99
- Interactive games to help children who struggle with letter and number reversals. Games are included to help children practice disguising between letters such as B, D, P and numbers such as 3, 6, and 9. Children turn and swipe letters until they are in the correct direction of the letter.
- Pocket Phonics
- Ages: 4-7
- Price: 6.99
- This app gives children to opportunity to master and practice letter sounds, a mix of vowels and consonants, letter tracing and repetitive sounds. The children have the ability to then move onto reading short stories on the letter sounds previously learned.
Improving Memory
- Elevate
- Ages: 4+
- Price: Free
- This is a training program designed to improve focus, speaking ability, processing speed, memory, and math skills. This app comes with games for critical cognitive skills such as focus, memory, processing, comprehension, and precision.
- Brain School – Brain Training
- Ages: 4+
- Price: Free
- This app comes with 20 different brain training games and over 100 levels of tricky puzzles. Brain school covers different skills including, math, logic, word search, memory, spatial awareness, and more.
- Lumosity
- Ages: 4+
- Price: Free
- This app offers 40+ games and puzzles to test memory, logic, math skills, speed, language, and problem solving. Learn your child’s strength and weakness and help them improve in a fun and engaging way.
Learning Games in General
- 123 Learning Games
- ABC Animals Toddler Adventures
- Math Learner: Learning Games
- Sight Words Learning Games
- First Words Sampler
- ABC Kids: Tracing & Phonics
- Reading Eggs
- LeapFrog Academy
- Endless Wordplay
- Khan Academy Kids
- Brainwell
- Color Dots
- Dexteria
- Rush Hour
- Chocolate Fix