Sight Word Games & Flash Cards app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Terasoft, a.s.
First release : 07 Jul 2012
App size: 99.92 Mb
*Entirety of 220 SIGHT WORDS from the popular Dolch list (+ extra 94 NOUNS!)*
*Preschool, Kindergarten, 1st Grade Categories *
*6 awesome EDUCATIONAL GAMES!*
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PRESS REVIEW
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* "an awesome level of interactivity"
* "hits the mark on being both educational, and entertaining for kids"
Apps4Moms.net
* "A colorful and quirky mechanical, industrial theme that children will definitely like. A great tool for teaching and allowing your children learn all about sight words"
iheartthisapp.com
"Provides ample opportunities to learn all 220 Dolch words through a series of six games and activities. The interface is simple and easy to navigate and overall the look is appealing."
Jill Goodman, smartappsforkids.com
* Kindertowns 7 Apps for Lively Learning selection - "an app with a lot of variety for reinforcing identification of sightwords"
kindertown.com
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Feed the hungry dog to learn spelling, save the Wordaliens, get the gears moving and more! Developed in cooperation with educational specialists, Action Sight Words Games helps children to become confident readers by teaching them in a fun, interactive way high-frequency words from the popular Dolch Sight Words List.
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WHY TO TEACH SIGHTWORDS?
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Sight words are words in English language that do not have a simple one-to-one correspondence between sounds and letters -- in other words, they have to be memorized and instantly recognized -- recognized “on sight,” so to speak. In an average, non-technical text, they comprise over 50-70% of total words.
Therefore, children who can quickly recognize sight words can read better because while they read, they can focus on inferring the words they do not know while still understanding most of the grammatical structure of the text. Learning sight words is thus a crucial step towards an enormous reading improvement.
Action Sight Words Games application offers children an easy-to-use interface and a grand choice of six fun educational games through which children can acquire mastery over this subject matter.
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6 GAMES INCLUDED
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1) WORD MACHINE
Control the Word Machine. Supply all the words that need to be produced by tapping on the words called.
2) SPELLING
Your dog is hungry! Make cans to feed him! To make a can, drag the letter cards to their correct place and make a word you have just heard pronounced.
3) BINGO
Make a Bingo to get a ticket for Aliens back home! Tap on the word corresponding to the one that you heard pronounced. Once you have matched cards from one side of the board to the next... Bingo! All Starfall Word Aliens are back home!
4) MEMORY GAME
Match the sounds to correct word forms! To do so, tap on one of the speakers, hear the word, and then select one of the cards below with a correct word. Do it for all words!
5) GEARS
Tap on one of the speakers on the screen, hear the word pronounced, and place the word across the speaker. Repeat for all words to see wonderful gears animation.
6) FLASH CARDS
Practice in the Flash Card mode. List through the words and top on the cards to hear the words pronounced again and again!
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ADDITIONAL FEATURES
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- Advanced word management system
- Avatar selection
- Choice of capitalized words and upper-case or lower-case letters
- Access to best scores
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Latest reviews of Sight Word Games & Flash Cards app for iPhone and iPad
The letter "a" is not pronounced /ah/. Its pronounced /ay/. I hate to think I bought something that is going to teach my kid how to mispronounce common sight words.
Great app, there are tons of sight words included. My kids love it. Its entertaining for them but also educational, hard to find both in an app. Worth downloading!
This is an amazing educational app for kids, its obvious how much work had been put into making it what it is. My pre-schooler loves this, and it supplements whats being thought at the kindergarten. The graphics, animation and sound all makes it an entertaining and educational experience for the little ones. Hghly reccomended!
I like this idea of this app, but the background music and dog barking are so loud (and distracting) my kids cannot hear the girl speaking to say the words for the games. Very disappointing and not very useful because of this!
Just got this app for my 5yr old and it didnt work!!