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My child has been listening to this app since he was born. The repetition and soothing melody is my child's favorite song. It is a timeless classic and by 15 months old he was reciting his ABC. He has a sense of pride and confidence because he knows his alphabet. It's a great app! Download ABC learning - Alphabet Phonics for Kids 1.0 for Android for free, without any viruses, from Uptodown. Try the latest version of ABC learning - Alphabet Phonics for Kids 2017 for Android.
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Download this app from Microsoft Store for Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 Mobile, Windows 10 Team (Surface Hub). See screenshots, read the latest customer reviews, and compare ratings for Russian Alphabet.
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Designed for use in the school environment, this app features a simple profile system so that multiple users can create and store their own theme poems on the same device without confusion.
This app mirrors our web-based student interactive Alphabet Organizer, so users familiar with one can easily adapt to the other. In fact, users can send their editable .rwt files to an email address and then open their poem right in the online tool!
For prep work before working on a mobile device, use blank versions of the alphabet chart and the alphabet letter pages.
Students can organize work behind a profile system that stores their work.
The Alphabet Organizer makes it easy to write an ABC book.
Use the app in two different ways: List up to five words that begin with a particular letter or pick one word and add a picture and some additional text to make an alphabet book.
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Lessons That Use This Mobile App
Grades K – 2Lesson Plan Standard Lesson
Students create alphabet books, which are used as an integrated assessment with science, health, social studies, and any other content area. This lesson plans looks at the theme of community.
Grades K – 2Lesson Plan Standard Lesson
Students write original stories using alphabetical order, beginning each page with a new letter, and then illustrate their texts in class or at home with their families.
Grades K – 2Lesson Plan Standard Lesson
Creating an illustrated alphabet book of action words, from attack to zap, reinforces the definition of verbs as it stretches and expands students' vocabulary.
Grades K – 2Lesson Plan Standard Lesson
3, 2, 1... Blast off! Students learn new vocabulary by taking a virtual field trip to the moon, read-alouds, creating a picture dictionary, and completing a final writing activity.
Grades K – 2Lesson Plan Unit
Students increase their understanding of alphabet books by participating in a variety of reading and writing activities.
Related Classroom & Professional Development Resources
Grades K – 2Lesson Plan Standard Lesson
Focus students' attention on alliteration in this ocean-themed unit. Students explore alliteration in framing texts then compose their own class book to explore figurative language in their own writing.
From learning the alphabet to stringing letter sounds together, reading requires a foundation of many skills. These interactive apps can help provide the building blocks of reading, focusing on literacy skills including phonetic awareness, site words, letter recognition, and letter sounds.
Looking for more educational apps? Check out our Appy Friday series!
Interactive Alphabet ABCs
Your little one will sing, trace, and type his way to becoming a reader with this interactive app. Explore mode allows your child to discover letters and sounds at his own pace. Sing mode will have him singing the alphabet with 26 dancing robots, and trace mode includes letters, words, custom words, alternate tracing strokes, and left-handed support. This app is aligned to the Kindergarten Reading Foundational Skills in the Common Core Standards.
Ages: 1-5
Price: $2.99
ABC Gurus
Your child can interact with his ABCs as he personalizes each letter into a crazy character. This app allows your child to scroll through the alphabet and choose a letter to color and add silly accessories to, like cartoon eyes and a grinning mouth. As he colors and adds features, he'll hear the phonetic sounds the letter makes, and when he's done he can tap the play button to watch a word starting with the featured letter come to life in a hilarious animation.
Ages: 2-5
Price: $1.99
Starfall ABCs
The ABCs section from the well-loved website starfall.com is now available in an app! Your child can see, hear, and interact with letters and sounds in words, sentences, and games, and positive reinforcement will help her develop skills to become a confident reader.
Ages: 2-4
Price: $2.99
Endless Alphabet
This interactive educational app focuses on letter recognition, sounds, and vocabulary building. Each word your child is given features a puzzle with talking letters, and a short animation illustrating the definition. The cute monsters that are featured are an added bonus.
Ages: 2-5
Price: $6.99
Elmo Loves ABCs
Elmo loves this app, and your child will, too! Winner of an ON for Learning Award and a Parents' Choice Silver Award, it features songs, videos, coloring pages, and games all about letters. Elmo even made up a new song about the alphabet! Parents can personalize this app by adding their own photos and videos, and the ABCs tracker allows you to see how your child is progressing with his reading skills.
Ages: 3-5
$4.99
Monkey Word School Adventure
Join Monkey and his jungle friends as they explore a world of letters, phonics and spelling. With a special focus on sight words, and lessons ranging from letter recognition and sounds to word components such as consonant blends and irregular vowels, your child will be introduced to the fundamentals of reading in a fun and interactive way.
Ages: 3-5
Price: $1.99
Learn with Homer
Based on Harvard and Stanford research and winner of a Mom's Choice Gold Award, Learn with Homer offers personalized reading instruction to help ready children for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade. It helps kids learn to read by progressively covering over 50 reading skills, including phonics, pronunciation, upper- and lowercase letter recognition, blending, and more.
Abet Applied Science
Ages: 3-6
Price: Free
Hooked on Phonics — Learn to Read
Based on the award-winning Hooked on Phonics Learn to Read program, this app includes step one of the program. It comes complete with three lessons, loaded with interactive games that show how sounds become words and words become stories. It's perfect for kids who know the sounds of the alphabet and are ready to take the next step into reading. At the end of each lesson is a story for your child to read herself or aloud to others.
Ages: 4+
Price: Free
Wallykazam! Letter and Word Magic
Based on the Nick Jr. hit TV show Wallykazam, this app follows along with Wally Trollman; his pet dragon, Norville; and their friends as they embark on a magical reading adventure. Silly games and activities, such as letter searches and letter tracing, aim to teach phonemic awareness, letter knowledge, and letter-sound associations.
Ages: 4-6
Abet Approved Programs
Price: $3.99
Noodle Words
Has your child ever made the word 'spin' actually spin, or the word 'jump' actually jump? The Noodle Bugs demonstrate the word meanings of each of the words in the app through animated antics, and your child can interact with the words by using the iPad's touch screen. With only 18 words offered, this app is better for children in the beginning stages of building their vocabulary. Winner of a Parents' Choice Gold Award and a Children's Technology Review Editor's Choice Award.
